Dream Auguries
Dream Auguries is a weekly reflection series for insomniacs, lucid dreamers, oracles and soothsayers, magicians and conjurers of all kinds. It’s bonus content for the film, Dreaming Grand Avenue, now streaming on cable, written and directed by Hugh Schulze.
- Update frequency
- every 40 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
The Jungle Dreams of Werner Herzog
During the pandemic, filmmaker Werner Herzog, wrote The Twilight World, a novel about Hiroo Onoda's decades in a jungle after World War II. In tonight's episode, we hear how Herzog's own experience i…
Dune Dreams
When making his screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune, Denis Villeneuve opened the film with a line not in the book -- but at the same time, recognizing the importance of dreams to the story.
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In Harold Budd's Pavilion of Dreams
More than 40 years ago, the composer Harold Budd recorded one of the first "ambient" records on Brian Eno's Obscure Records label. With the Superior Viaduct's re-release of The Pavilion of Dreams, it…
Pandemic Dreams
Have our dreams changed during the COVID-19 pandemic? If the WHO is right and we are “sleep-deprived” how has that affected our dreams? And does changing how and how often we dream alter what we’re d…
The Silent Dreams of Maya Deren
We follow the filmmaker Maya Deren through her dream of beaches, dinner parties, and chess in At Land.
Children’s Dreams
In which we discuss the dreams of children and the dreams adults remember from childhood. Do Time and Memory change dreams?
Chicago Dream
Tonight, we have a musical interlude, taking us back to Mister Kelly’s in Chicago 1957, with Sarah Vaughan singing Johnny Mercer’s Dream.
Animal Dreams
Tonight, we consider the cuttlefish. Or more precisely, we consider research on the dreams of the cuttlefish. And dolphins.
Dream Deprivation
The World Health Organization calls it a global "sleep loss epidemic." With more and more people getting less and less sleep, what happens when we dream less?
Fellini Dreams
In 1960, after the success of La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini began keeping a dream journal, a practice he continued for the next 30 years. Here, we read an excerpt from the journal and revisit the o…