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 THE
NIGHT WATCH
"All men sleep by intervals", said John Locke (Essay Concerning Human Understanding). This, alas, is
not the understanding of our current society, with its sleep meds and
artificial lighting, fighting back the fertile dark.
Sleep
historian Roger Ekirch says that “until the modern era, up to an hour or
more of quiet wakefulness midway through the night interrupted the rest of
most Western Europeans” - and presumably most other people - so that
“consolidated sleep, such as we today experience, is unnatural.” I think
this is exactly right, and may help to explain the extent to which so many
of us in our urbanized society are out of nature and out of touch with
dreaming.
[more]
 RACHMANINOFF
GIVES A PIANO LESSON
Olga Kern, a
lovely and gifted young Russian pianist, has won many international awards.
At
seventeen, she was the youngest participant in the
first Rachmaninoff Piano Competition in Moscow. She had a very interesting
mentor. Before the second round, she dreamed that Rachmaninoff was playing a
piano alone in a huge auditorium, waiting for her. He looked up at her and
said, “Olga, I've been waiting for you. You should play something for me, we
have a lesson scheduled.”
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THE QUOTABLE
DREAMER
Stevie Wonder’s Mom Gets Him Moving Again
“I was feeling
sorry for myself and the grieving was hard and than one night Mom came
to me in a dream and said, Stevie get yourself moving again. You better
get out there and do what you do and spread your message cause I 'm
gonna always be here with you.”
--
Stevie
Wonder, onstage at Foxwoods in Connecticut on November 14, 2007.
Stevie Wonder’s
mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, died on May 31, 2006. They had been very
close. Lula’s dream appearance motivated Stevie to put together a new
tour, dedicated to his mother. It also inspired a new album, Gospels
Inspired by Lula. Stevie added that his mom gave him wisdom and he
planned on doing things that will make a difference.
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