The Spacetime of Dreams

Christopher White, professor and chair of the religion department at Vassar College, examines the higher-dimensional time theories of the British aviator and writer John Dunne. Dunne developed a theory of time in which human beings transcended time and space in dreams. His views reverberated throughout popular culture in Europe and America, inspiring writers—including the British broadcaster and novelist J.B. Priestley, H.G. Wells, and Christian writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis—seeking ways of transcending the terrors of the world wars or triumphing over suffering and death.

[silverapples]

Timestamps:
0:00 Introductory waffle.
1:30 More waffle.
2:00 Tangential Piffle (Pining for the Pre-Modern)
4:20 An aside
7:45 Discursive Interlude
10:00 Oh are we ready to start?!
11:00 Buy my book
12:00 A graph about something...wake me up if anything happens...

[ruthlearner]

Nabokov: there is clock time and there is perceptual time... Bergson: intuitive time (being able to enter into time) and mathematical or measured time... the list goes on but these guys are gods of time - BTW if you want enter into time, dreams/artistic expression/writing - Nabokov tried out Dunne's dream experiment and claims it worked to an extent.

[MeTaLAnGeL]

I'm SO getting this book! Sounds interesting!

[lovingyaru]

That man and that reading is a joke, he does the amazing men, whose name he put into his cluttered mouth, no justice. Go read the old books mentioned but not his.