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How much a culture understands of the practice of dreaming is reflected in the variety and specificity of the terms it uses for different types of dream experience. The Hawaiian language contains a rich vocabulary for dreaming that makes a delightful study. A general word for dreams in Hawaiian is moe’uhane, generally translated as “soul…

When Lucrecia de León was a guest of the Spanish Inquisition, one of the investigators told her, “You are so beautiful a dead man would rise up and make you pregnant.” Since women are absent from so much of the history written by men, it is remarkable that – thanks in part to the Spanish…

He lived with his large and imposing wife Violet in a blue and white house overlooking the Gulf, with a verandah on the upper level to catch the sea breezes. Under the fierce desert sun, he went shooting in gaiters and country tweeds, and may have looked, in his florid bulk, the model of the…

Mikey Welsh, former bassist for the alternative rock group Weezer, tweeted this message on Sept 26: “dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today.” He followed up with a message to a friend: “correction — the weekend after next.” Two weeks after the first tweet,…
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