Counting sheep, recurring nightmares and nightlights... From childhood on, sweet dreams are the stuff of yearnings and "Good Night" is a time-honored tradition from forever-back-there of wishing others the best blessing of staying well after parting...
Dreams are a mind-brain dance and new studies are allowing great leaps in the study of the biology and science girding the brain. "This is the greatest adventure of all time," says Harvard psychiatrist and dream researcher J. Allan Hobson. "The development of brain imaging is the equivalent of Galileo's invention of the telescope, only we are now exploring inner space instead of outer space," in the 5/15 U.S. News & World Report article, What Dreams Are Made Of.
For children, the classic award-winning book, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, spoke about the fears of children and has become an international cultural classic. When first issued in 1963, it was credited with "introducing an entirely new style, one that explored the often dark, threatening themes while at the same time empowering the child character to overcome adversity through courage and force of character," according to a 2002 exhibition of Sendak's works (pdf link). Sendak is working on a pop-up book of monsters, due out in 2006, and his classics are still highly regarded by the original and next-gen Sendak fans. Here's a 2003 Sendak interview on NPR.
Benicio Del Toro and other stars have been selected to play in a movie adaptation of Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and warm and fuzzy fans of the book are getting excited for the 2008 release, shot in Australia.
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