Dream dictionary
(Photos: Talbert Johnson)
Date with the Sandman
Dreams are often puzzling and intriguing. You may dream of a flying giraffe, an adventure in Iceland or your upcoming math exam, but the debate on whether the dream world has an underlying significance to our daily lives remains contested territory.
Andrew Brook, director of Carleton’s Institute of Cognitive Science, has worked with dreams while doing psychoanalysis. “Dreams are the imagination at work while we are asleep,” he says.
The Insomniac’s guide to chasing sleep
( Photo: Kevin Gurr )
What’s the weirdest dream you’ve had?
“The world was ending so we formed clans and battled. They were all students. I died — a knife was thrown at me and stabbed me in the heart.”
- Alicia Hall, third-year commerce
“I was in my bedroom but it was twice as big, with another bed at the end of the hall. My brother was in the bed wearing a banana costume yelling at me because my dictionary was more expensive than his.”
Rocking out in the capital
Ben Scriver (left) got his start performing at open mic nights with his band Killing for Friday, seen above ( Photo Provided )
