Pay Attention to Your Dreams: They Can Change Your Life

Trust me, I speak from experience

Adapted from The Girl in the Yellow Poncho

“Dreaming is a state of psychosis. You know that right?” the late J. Allan Hobson, the ever-contentious professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School told me this years ago when I interviewed him for a magazine article. Widely credited as the father of modern neurological dream research, he said this as though itching for a fight. Blue eyes laughing, white hair slightly disheveled, he added, “Every night when…