Several months ago, I had a dream that I was having a telephone conversation with the very funny comedienne Amy Poehler, the details of which are documented in this entry’s MP3.
It got me thinking again about the people that populate our dreams: usually they’re people we know, or occasionally celebrities of some sort, but many times people that aren’t familiar to us make appearances of varying degrees of note. Often I’m sure they’re huddled in the background, bit players in the performance, but sometimes they play a more dominant role – such as the unknown man who sold doughnuts in many of my childhood dreams. Paging Dr. Freud. Who are these people? (more…)
