In our contemporary culture the dream sphere has been moved to a mystical and stigmatised corner. A sphere which we usually try to understand by simplified interpretation models and a superstitious rationality. But there’s no escaping the fact that we sleep and thereby dream approximately one third of our lives. That’s a lot of time and a lot of energy spent on something that is generally regarded as something passive and irrational. We can easily see how our two waking thirds are very adapted for survival. We deal with what needs to be done to provide nutrition, protection and shelter and we work together with greater or smaller collectives to create a solid base for survival. Is it then unlikely that the sleeping and thereby dreaming third is also a part of this survival strategy? Of course not. In fact, this could be the most important third of them all. This is a video recording of my lecture The Magic of Dreams Made Real, arranged by The Society of Sentience on...
