Together in prosaic dreams: anthology reveals Europeans’ anticlimactic subconscious

Collector of dream stories from across continent finds ‘surprising consistency’ in the way they are structured A young woman discovers in a dream that she is responsible for the Holocaust and tries to come up with schemes to make amends – and then gets distracted by a business meeting. Another woman dreams she is being chased by murderers – and ends up chilling in front of the TV with them. A man gets to advise Emmanuel Macron on social policy – and talks to him about haircuts and dog training instead. Dreams can turn our innermost fears and darkest fantasies into miniature dramas. But an anth

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