D10N MCGREG0R - THE FURTHER S0MNILOQU1ES OF D10N MCGREG0R (2004)

In the spirit of book-keeping here at OWOD, we must now present the long promised 3rd collection of Mr. McGregor's nocturnal transmissions from the other side of consciousness. As you may recall, this fellow dreams out loud, delivering an unequaled, often narrative, first-person reportage directly from the depths of slumberland. I recently learned there is a fourth volume of these 1960s recordings that has been released.

Hear the inside of the dreaming brain here...

1891 C0LLECTION: READ BY BELL0NA TIMES (2013)

Here are a few quick associative rejoinders to our posts, yesterday, on Sigmund Freud. The first, from LibriVox, an organization dedicated to the "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain" looks at 1891--the year, incidentally, Freud published his first solo effort, On Aphasia, and moved into his flat at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, where he would write all of his major works. This anthology, however, has nothing to do with Freud. Instead we get 4 hours of amazing period pieces, set firmly within the dreamscape of the Modern: texts by Sir Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde and Lafcadio Hearn; pieces on American Hotels, Bohemian Scandals, Soup, and the Legacy of Antiquity.

Dream it all: Part One and Part Two.

ANTH0NY ST0RR - FREUD: A VERY SH0RT INTRODUCT1ON (2001)

While tracks 24-27 (Download Part Two) provide the clearest summary of Freud's main theories on dreams, here are all 73 tracks from the 3-CD audiobook for context and general history.

In those 3-tracks / 10 minutes, Storr touches upon the key dream generators, as Freud saw them--wish-fulfillment, trauma, anxiety and shame--and the forces of repression, displacement, sublimation, symbolization that filter both the manifest and latent content of the dreams themselves. These ideas provide a loose frame and method through which this blog continues to ponder dreams, sound, music, and document. "Loose." Part One and Part Two.

S1GMUND FREUD / JUL1ANE KÖHLER - TRÄUME UND TRAUMDEUTUNG (Entdeckungen auf der Couch: CD01, 2006)

This recording of the foundational document of modern dream research--The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)--we are assured, offers both German speakers and non-speakers alike good fodder for drifting off. Consultation of the primary source, and its vast seas of commentary, is of course recommended during alert, waking hours.

Interpretive Dreaming...

This 11-CD series, produced on the occasion of Freud's 150th birthday, also features this Christoph Waltz reading of "The Moses of Michelanagelo" (1914), for those who enjoy the voice of this Django/Inglourious Basterds actor.

D10N MCGREG0R - THE DRE4M W0RLD OF D10N MCGREG0R (1964)

Our first test subject for Freud's ideas comes in the form of this groundbreaking album from the guy who dreams out loud in his sleep. This is our second offering from McGregor, and we have a third one we may post at some time. Here the dream-state is laid bare--not recounted from memory--and open to analysis in ways that Freud himself could only have dreamed. These are monologues from "inside" the subject and his dream, not a description as much as a experiential notebook.

Dream it here.

SIGMUND FREUD / STEVEN CR0SSLEY - CIVILIZATION AND ITS D1SCONTENTS (2011)

Perhaps more important for our own purposes here at OWOD are Freud's late works, where he suggests the larger ideological underpinnings of psychology and hints at their reification in material life, as well as their psycho-social affects. The "dream-states" of "Discontents" (1930) are of course our illusions and delusions, our anxieties and irrational drives in the face of social constraint...the Subject under pressure.

For fellow Lovers of listening to works reading-aloud, here's the audiobook of James Strachey's 1961 translation. (To read along, the Strachey PDF.)

Lastly, because we can, we offer a PDF of the The Future of an Illusion (1927).

DEL1A DERBYSH1RE - INVENT10NS FOR RAD1O: DREAMS (1964)

Derbyshire added subtle electronic touches to this collaboration with Barry Bermange for, what I can tell, BBC Radio in 1964. The provenance of this work is a bit unclear. I received the files from a friend, but there have been three or four unofficial reissues, one of which has supplied us the cover art. (We have more Derbyshire here!)

This is a mesmerizing project--a collage project of people describing their dreams, set into a the context of a "dreamwork" itself. Another essential research document of our field of study here at OWOD.

Inventions for dreaming...

SUS4N BUCK-M0RSS - "THE CITY AS DREAMWORLD AND CATASTROPHE" (1995)

A favorite article on the dreamwork, and dreamworlds, underlying capital and it cultural surfeit. Buck-Morss urges a rethink of aesthetics in relationship to somatic or bodily knowledge under the impact of modernity.

‘The industrial metropolis became a landscape of techno-aesthetics, a dazzling, crowd-pleasing dreamworld that provided total environments to envelope the crowd’

‘Dreams, too, have entered into this electronic space’ of communication and media which ‘provide mass reproduction of the image.'

'The out of date ruins of the recent past appear as residues of a dreamworld’ 

D10N MCGREG0R - DREAMS AG41N (1999)

Confounding recordings of McGregor narrating his dreams out loud in his sleep. Frightening and fascinating. Overheard sleep-talking by his roommate in the early 60s, McGregor allowed his friend to tape many of his sleeps over a few years. The earliest--and tamest--were released by Decca in 1964. These recordings here include bawdy ramblings and outright nightmares...ones that wake him up screaming. An essential research document of the dreaming process in action. Also, a vital lesson in story-telling. Here an entire narrative develops through a kind of dramatic dialogue where only one side of a two-sided conversation is actually delivered. Simply amazing.

Dream again...

M4X R1CHTER - FR0M SLEEP (2015)

A constrained, somewhat obvious approach to sleep music, but lulling nonetheless. This album is an excerpt of the 8-hr "full night rest" version released, one to compliment and improve restfulness. This one is meant to be played while awake. It's viscous, seeping music that makes it seem, at times, as if your head is wrapped in foam or you are listening through water. This makes me dream about dreaming a bit, entices me to want to test the full project.

Dreaming...