Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Dreams are a strange phenomenon: often a conversational bore in real life, when transformed into fiction they become the bedrock for some of our most engaging literature. From Lewis Carroll\u2019s Wonderland fantasies to the horrors of Stephen King, authors have a long and colourful history of depicting and converting dreams, creating a window into our psyches and our times. Three recently published books \u2014 non-fiction, fiction and poetry \u2014 trace the connection between these narratives of the unconscious, and the waking fears and disruptions that feed them. Charlotte Beradt\u2019s The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation, to be republished this month by Princeton University Press, asks what happens when reality infects and changes the dreams of ordinary people. Beradt\u2019s investigation was first published in 1960s, in German and then in English. Damion Searls\u2019 new translation revives this almost forgotten but hugely insightful text. Four weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Berlin-based Beradt lost her job as a journalist, joining the many intellectuals who were purged, jailed or otherwise swept out of the way as the Nazis took over Germany. Beradt and her husband were briefly imprisoned. Even after their release, jobless and at risk, Beradt\u2019s fears pursued her into dreams \u2014 and she was inspired to start documenting the dreams of others. By 1939, when she and her husband fled to the US, finding shelter with Hannah Arendt and other exiles, Beradt had collected about 300 dreams, having scoured Berlin for people who were willing to share the anxieties that followed them beyond sleep. \u201cThe things that filled my dreams must fill theirs, too,\u201d she recalled in a 1943 article for Free World magazine, \u201cbreathless flight across fields, hiding at the top of towers of dizzying height, cowering down below in graves, everywhere the Storm Troopers at my heels\u201d. As Beradt observed: \u201cThe rarity of dreams of revenge is notable.\u201d And yet, her creativity and courage in recording these dreams was its own act of resistance. She concealed her notes in the spines of books, replacing the word \u201cParty\u201d with \u201cfamily\u201d, \u201carrest\u201d with \u201cflu\u201d, and dubbing Hitler, Goebbels and Goring \u201cUncle Hans, Uncle Gustav and Uncle Gerhard\u201d. Both authors bring real insight to what dreams tell \u2014 or don\u2019t. But it takes a poet to illuminate what dreams can lead us towardsIf dreams were the last private space available to humans, even in the most tyrannical dictatorships, is that still true when algorithms and social media streams intrude into every aspect of our lives? In Laila Lalami\u2019s sixth book, The Dream Hotel, AI companies have taken over sleep, monitoring dreams through the Dreamsaver, a skull implant that delivers restful nights, but also reports disturbing dreams to the government. \u201cDreams are really our last islands of freedom,\u201d Lalami said in a recent interview. \u201cThe amount of data that the Big Five [tech companies] collect has become more expansive and more granular, threatening our freedoms, our mental health, and even our free will.\u201d The Dream Hotel follows the protagonist, Sara, into detention centres, thought-crimes and the terrifying consequences of being caught on the wrong side of an algorithm, while Lalami makes an eloquent case for living free of surveillance, waking or sleeping: \u201cShe wants to be free, and what is freedom if not the wresting of the self from the gaze of others, including her own?\u201dPerhaps these two books mirror the anxieties of this uncertain age. At a time when many are tempted to interpret dreams, holding up a scrying glass to the unconscious in search of Jungian reassurance, both authors bring real insight to what dreams tell \u2014 or don\u2019t. But it takes a poet to illuminate what dreams can lead us towards. Matthew Zapruder\u2019s I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems (2024) is for all sleepers who are \u201calready awake\/ at that oddest hour\/ that does not end,\/ the crooked, unnumbered one\u201d. In the collection, Zapruder, who teaches creative writing at Saint Mary\u2019s College of California, counters the pop-psych tendency to \u201cinterpret\u201d dreams: \u201cpoems your dreams\/ have no hidden\/ agenda to be wise\/ they are made\/ to be forgotten\/ so something\/ can be known\u201d. He writes, he told an interviewer, early in the morning, \u201cwhen everything seems full of promise, anxiety, beauty, silence and danger\u201d. For Beradt, dreams told the truths that humans hid from their waking selves; for Lalami, dreams can be precious, if fragile, sanctuaries. And for readers, both the vast literature of dreams and Zapruder\u2019s journey through these nightscapes are a reminder to spend some time in solitude, to tap into our deepest instincts rather than be swept away by the rushing clamour of the world.Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf\u00e9 and follow FT Weekend on Instagram and\u00a0X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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