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...competing theories on why we dream may be wrong. One or more of them could be right. "I have no doubt that dreams can be enjoyable, informative, even revelatory to the dreamer," says Harvard's Stickgold. "But dream analysis is a more tricky question. The more dogmatic and doctrinaire the beliefs of the analyst, the less useful and potentially more destructive the analysis process becomes." People should understand, he adds, that dreams aren't constructed with the goal of delivering a message; they don't have an inherent meaning. "But when you look at your dreams after you wake...
...tucks them into bed at around 8.30 p.m. and falls asleep not long after. "There are very few men around me who spend as much time with their children as I do," he says. "In fact, many people are putting in more overtime [than before]." He's not wrong: the 2005 financial year was Japan's worst ever when it came to karoshi, or death from overwork, with 330 cases of people dying from work-induced heart attacks, strokes or other ailments...
...regulate my data intake: I don't carry a BlackBerry, but I do carry a cell phone, and it has made me a rapacious consumer of text messages. I've become dismally fluent in typing on my cell phone's keypad, one-thumbed, while walking. Don't get me wrong; I have a full-blown e-mail problem too. I frequently override the little notifier app that checks my G-mail for me once a minute because an e-mail could have arrived in the intervening 60 seconds...
...worker who became an animal-rights activist, a venture capitalist who quit to found a high-minded nonprofit, a death-penalty advocate who became a leading death-penalty opponent. Often the insight came in a forehead-smiting moment in the middle of the night: I've got it all wrong...
Bruce Grierson is the author of U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life...