S5:6 EP74: Life is But a Dream: the subconscious, the anxious mind, and the persistence of Hope

Every night our mind enters another world, a strange place of images, memories, ideas, often a place filled with anxiety or unease, but also sometimes a place of artistic inspiration, love, and hope. Today on the podcast we'll be discussing that strange in-between state of dreaming - and how we use the word 'dream' in the waking world - MLK Jr's "I have a dream" and Fantine's "I dreamed a dream"... to rowing merrily down the stream, life is but a dream... to Christopher Nolan's Inception. This a sound rich episode inviting you to meditate, wonder, and get a little lost in some dreamscapes of your own. 

 

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History of "row row row your boat"

https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-meaning-of-the-nursery-rhyme-row-row-row-your-boat/ 

 

Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a Dream" Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s 

Anthony Hopkins reciting Hamlet's soliloquey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp06Yoj8yWU 

Original Broadway Recording "I Dreamed a Dream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fiWR5iyFf0 

 

Recommendation:

 

Thomas Newman - Meet Joe Black - "Cold Lamb Sandwich"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XmueM7X_M 

 

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“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” 
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” 
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

 

“Hope is a waking dream.” 
― Aristotle

 

“To know that one is dreaming
is to be no longer perfectly asleep.” 

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

 

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” 
― Edgar Allan Poe