Forget Freud. New Yorker cartoonist Ros Chast is the best interpreter of dreams hands down.

I'm Meg Walitzer and on this selected short

Chast reads from her new book, I Must Be Dreaming.

So I had this dream about Danny DeVito.

I dream that I was married to him.

In my dream, he lay with his head in my lap,

gazing up at me with adoration.

And I thought, I'm not in love with him, but it's nice to be adored, so maybe this will work out.

Stay with us for fiction about sleep and dreams, with hilarious tales from Chast's own vault of Nirozies.

You're listening to selected shorts

where our greatest actors transport us

through the magic of fiction

one short story out of time. As long as people have been telling stories, dreams have been a narrative tool to

communicate meaning.

Dreams appear in ancient Sumerian, Egyptian, and Greek stories.

They motivate characters in early novels like The Tale of Genji and Don stories. They motivate characters in early novels like the

Tale of Genji and Don Quixote. And for some reason just about everyone has

had that dream in which they find themselves on stage in a play but they don't

remember their lines.

Not to mention the dream where they're on the street where they grew up,

dressed as the Easter Bunny going door to door asking for pocket change.

Or is that just me? Dreams are irresistible to writers with good reason.

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