Local woman’s Obama visions undergo an expert’s scrutiny
Jaclyn Youhana
The Journal Gazette
"Which one should I start with?" Kim Siratei wondered in her e-mail. The Fort Wayne woman was responding to a call for dreams of Barack Obama.
She's had at least three.
I Dream of Barack is a blog that features dreams people have had about the president. Sheila Heti, who edits the blog, is putting together a book about Obama dreams because, she noticed, they seemed common.
New York Times columnist Judith Warner noted the same trend in a February column.
What is it about Obama that lends itself to dreamland?
Robert Van de Castle, a dream expert and former director of the Sleep and Dream Research Laboratory at the University of Virginia Medical Center, worked with Heti on dreams she has collected, and he analyzed them.
"Obama is certainly a wonderful symbol representative for many, many unfinished global issues," Van de Castle says. "He's not just one point of view. In some ways, he's kind of a
Jaclyn Youhana
The Journal Gazette
"Which one should I start with?" Kim Siratei wondered in her e-mail. The Fort Wayne woman was responding to a call for dreams of Barack Obama.
She's had at least three.
I Dream of Barack is a blog that features dreams people have had about the president. Sheila Heti, who edits the blog, is putting together a book about Obama dreams because, she noticed, they seemed common.
New York Times columnist Judith Warner noted the same trend in a February column.
What is it about Obama that lends itself to dreamland?
Robert Van de Castle, a dream expert and former director of the Sleep and Dream Research Laboratory at the University of Virginia Medical Center, worked with Heti on dreams she has collected, and he analyzed them.
"Obama is certainly a wonderful symbol representative for many, many unfinished global issues," Van de Castle says. "He's not just one point of view. In some ways, he's kind of a
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