Bureau Of Lost Culture – The Dreaming (25/11/2023)

Niels Bohr discovered the structure of the atom in a dream, Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan after a dream, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was inspired by a dream, Hergé ’s ‘Tintin in Tibet’ – the first of many Tin TIn stories – the same.

Keith Richards claimed to have dreamed the riff to ‘Satisfaction”, Paul McCartney the melody to “Yesterday’ – the most covered pop song in history. Hell, even Aphex Twn says that 70%of his album Selected Ambient Works Volume II was written while lucid dreaming

This episode is all about dreaming – and our guide is one of the UK’s foremost dream researchers: SARAH JANES.

We talk about dreaming as countercultural consciousness, lucid dreaming, dreams and psychedelics, neuroscience, dreams a creative inspiration, the imagination, sleep cycles, REM, memories in dreams, alchemy, wet dreams, dreaming as the underworld – and dreaming as preparation for the afterlife.

Sarah gives some great tips on how to become a lucid dreamer.