PERCHANCE TO DREAM

Program 04-09-26-A

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To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

Dreams can be a pleasant diversion from the daily grind or something with the potential to transform, entertain, and even heal. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the power of dreams and the science of sleep.

SEGMENT 1:

Journalist Andrea Rock is the author of "The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream." She tells Steve Paulson we still don't know very much about what the mind's up to when it's dreaming although we've always had theories. Now the military wants to develop soldiers that never sleep. Also, Steve Venwright runs a record label called Torpor Vigil Industries. They've put out a CD called "The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor." McGregor talks in his sleep like you've never heard before. We hear some samples, and Steve Venwright tells Jim Fleming how he came to have his recordings.

SEGMENT 2:

Stephen LaBerge pioneered the field of lucid dreaming research at Stanford University. He tells Steve Paulson that anyone can learn how to become aware while dreaming and use lucid dreaming as a therapeutic tool. LaBerge is the author of "Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life." Also, Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the author of "Queen of Dreams." She tells Jim Fleming about her traditional Indian childhood and the Bengali dream-tellers she met while researching her book.

SEGMENT 3:

Paul Martin is the author of "Counting Sheep." He tells Steve Paulson that people don't get enough sleep these days and that our culture is wrong to diminish the importance and the pleasure of sleep.

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Books:

• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams (Doubleday)
• Stephen LaBerge, Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life (Sounds True, Inc)
• Paul Martin, Counting Sheep (St. Martins Press)
• CD: Dion McGregor, The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor ( Torpor Vigil Industries)
• Andrea Rock, The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream (Basic Books)

Links:

• The Lucidity Institute:
  http://www.lucidity.com/
  
• Hawaii Course:
  http://www.lucidity.com/DAAK04/index.html
  
• Dion Clips:
  http://www.torporvigil.com/soundworksindex4.htm#dion
  
• TorporVigil:
  www.torporvigil.com

Music:

• -Wiegenlied/ Mischa Maisky, cello & Pavel Gililov, piano/ Meditation/ Deutsche
  Grammophon
  
• -Talking In Your Sleep/ The Romantics/ What I Like About You ( & Other Romantic Hits)/ Sony
  
• -Melody/ Lydia Kavina/ Original Works for Theremin/ Mode
  
• -Life Could Be a Dream/ The Crewcuts
  
• -Last Dance/ Sarah Mclachlan/ Surfacing/ Nettwerk
  
• -Malort/ Hoven Droven/ Nordic Roots 3/ Northside

Distribution dates:

week of 08/28/2005 - hour 2 week of 09/26/2004 - hour 1

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