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The Dreamers


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In this episode Dan asks whether Homo Sapiens could in fact be better understood as Homo Oneiros, or The Dreaming People? Dreams fill our art and entertainment, our museums, the shows we watch, and our search for truth in science and psychology. We sleep a third of our lifetime, and entertain visionary ideas and imaginatory explorations for much of the remaining two. What if dreaming is the biggest deal of all?

Bion’s theory of dreaming by James Grotstein - https://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Grotstein-J.S.-Chapter-25-what-does-it-mean-to-dream.pdf

Frank Wilczek on complementarity in Science - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-expanding-power-of-complementarity/

Crick, F., Mitchison, G. The function of dream sleep. Nature 304, 111–114 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/304111a0

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