Dream Logic

Dream Logic

By Elias Campbell, Sean SutherlandSociety & CultureDocumentaryPersonal Journals
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Dream Logic episodes

  • Kailey
    “We’ve been here since 2011 and we’re not going anywhere anytime soon.” Kailey recounts a recent dream where she’s on a flying bus in a university town. In her reflection, she discusses her nostalgia for her university years, losing her mom the same year she graduated, and the possible meaning of the two sentences she recalls seeing in the dream.

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    10 min
  • R. Flex

    “Despite all the chaos, the music was the thing that grounded and centred this tender moment.” R. Flex recounts a recent dream where they were back in high school at an assembly alongside famous pop singers. In their reflection, they discuss the isolation of lockdown, the feeling of being a teenager again, their love of pop songs, and creating their own music.




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    17 min
  • Danny
    “Seeing something like that can make you feel like a failure... like you can’t take care of yourself.” Danny recounts a recent dream in which he spots an unusual cockroach in his apartment. In his reflection, he discusses the feeling of not being able to take care of himself, past concerns about what his future might look like, and the impact his anxiety has had on problem-solving.

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    8 min
  • Caroline
    “I remember just swimming for my life, not knowing where I was going or trying to get to.” Caroline recounts a recent dream involving widespread panic and a hectic race to find safety. In her reflection, she discusses her acute anxiety around COVID-19, the devastation of losing acting work during the pandemic, and feelings of helplessness she’s had to overcome.

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    14 min
  • Kathryn
    “I’m going to cry—it’s just this beautiful image that I don’t really know what it means, but it felt really free and felt really potent as an image of abundance.” Kathryn recounts a recent dream involving armpit hair that turns into cedar trees. In her reflection, she discusses societal expectations around women’s body hair, her interest in trees and forests, and the feeling of rebirth.

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    8 min
  • Ian
    “I’ve got a handful of teeth and I can’t show my face like this.” Ian recounts a recent dream working at a high school where he finds his teeth suddenly falling out. In his reflection, he discusses the feeling of getting older, approaching retirement, and the nature of teaching.

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    8 min
  • Taryn
    “It’s something that other people don’t really click into unless they’ve sort of gone through something similar.” Taryn recounts a recent dream involving dinner at a desolate patio with her sisters and a childhood friend. In her reflection, she discusses missing the closeness of certain childhood relationships, ongoing anxiety around health and other challenges, and the root of her control issues.

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    18 min
  • Jessica
    "Something was really wrong and it was somehow my fault, but I could never figure out why..." Jessica recounts a recurring dream in which she finds her entire family murdered. In her reflection, she discusses the survivor’s guilt she sometimes feels about her sister who died suddenly at a young age, while at the same time Jessica herself recovered from a serious illness.

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    11 min
  • Emmett
    “I had no control or say in any part of what was going on… I was just going with whatever was happening to me.” Emmett recounts a recent dream in which he is separated from his family on a trip to their cottage. In his reflection, he discusses his transmasculine identity, bathroom anxiety, and the troubling lack of control he’s felt over the course of the pandemic.

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    12 min
  • Alex

    “I don’t know what I really want to be doing, but I just know I have gifts that I could be using and sharing that I’m not—and it’s a drag.” Alex recounts a recent dream where a group of sailors enlist him to join their voyage to find the Northwest Passage (inexplicably located near Mexico). In his reflection, he discusses the circuitous path to his current job and tough questions about his career and future.



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    11 min

About Dream Logic

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Dream Logic is a podcast about dreams: what they are, how we make sense of them, what they bring to mind. Each episode features a new guest, someone who recounts a recent dream and tries to connect it…