Can We Control Our Dreams?
Roberts, Dan, The Independent (London, England)
Health Strange as it seems, the answer is yes - and it could help us solve our problems, says Dan Roberts
Freud famously regarded dreams as the "royal road to the unconscious". In Christopher Nolan's recent brain-twister, Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio and his industrial-espionage crew use dreams for a more devious purpose - invading the nocturnal wanderings of chief executives to steal commercially sensitive information. Using a combination of sedation and psychological profiling, he controls and manipulates their dreams.
So far, so sci-fi. But is this just Hollywood hogwash or do we have any influence over the often bizarre, meandering nocturnal journeys? Could …
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Article title: Can We Control Our Dreams?.
Contributors: Roberts, Dan - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: June 21, 2011.
Page number: 16.
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