Do hippos dream? Where did you dispose of the body? How does getting people to talk through a dream help them to better understand the real world? Andrew Johnstone, host of Podcast Squared (2019: website no longer live), dreamed up a bundle of questions from quirky to scientific, when he interviewed me for episode 102,
Need a little help recalling your dreams? An app can help you with that. Want to dream the perfect dream? There’s an app designed for that too. One key to good dream recall is to wake gently, keep your eyes closed, and allow dream fragments time to come together before your alarm clock – the
Imagine downloading movie clips of your dreams each morning. “What did you dream last night?” “No idea. Hang on a minute, I’ll have a look.” Research published this month in the journal Current Biology has led to speculation that this may be possible in decades to come. While no-one has yet captured footage of dreams,
“Global tidal wave of 70,000 job cuts,” announced the online news. “The tsunami of layoffs started in Europe …” Instantly I got the picture. It’s a metaphor that works. It describes a giant ripple effect of job loss caused by a seismic tremor in the global economy. It also describes the emotional impact felt or
Matt dreamed of hamburgers contaminated by spores falling from the sky, that turned the guys at a block party into cloned nerds complete with black glasses and identical clothes. Matt is in his twenties now, but this dream, which he had when he was thirteen, has remained vivid in his memory, and he wonders what
The most common reasons for bad dream-recall * Your parents soothed your nightmares by telling you they were ‘only dreams’ so you learned not to bother remembering them. * You have blocked dream recall because you had a series of scary dreams. * You jump out of bed in the morning when the alarm goes
Have you heard the old expression, ‘That broke my dream’? Breaking a dream was considered a sign of good luck. It meant something came up during the day that reminded you of your dream the night before. So, if you’d dreamed of a cow wearing a pink bell around its neck, and the next day
What should you do when you can’t seem to shake off a dream, when it haunts, dazes, or distracts you from your daily tasks? Is it a good thing to linger with the theme that tugs at the edges of your heart or mind, or are there dangers in reliving and replaying the dream over