Why is night interesting to you?
– It’s the day-to-day administration that you don’t think about that we want to save, because it can be very different. These days, many people listen to audio books or have electronic activity monitors while they sleep. You didn’t have that before. People usually say that the most boring thing is when someone tells you about your dream, but I think the opposite is true, it only happens when you let the mask go and sometimes when a friend tells you about a dream it can feel like you’re getting to know them for the first time.
Can you compare the material to other generations of sleepers?
– The Nordic Museum has collected collections on sleep before, but not quite in this way, so we don’t have anything comparable. But that means we have a third of our lives that haven’t been given a third of the attention. That’s why we’re doing this part to fill a knowledge gap.
Is there something about sleep that you think can say something about the present?
– From the time when interest in dreams was greater, there are many dream projects associated with Freud. Many people today have a more mechanical idea of what dreams are for. Based on the answers we’ve already received, we see that on a larger scale, dreams can still show patterns about how one thinks at a given time. A specific example is a book called “Dreams in the Third Reich,” in which a journalist collected dreams of dissidents who suddenly started dreaming about Hitler and how he even invented them in his sleep. So it is obvious that day influences night.
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