Coltan Scrivner

Well, let's talk about dreams for a second.

Sure.

I've never studied dreams.

And when I wrote the first draft of the book manuscript, I didn't have a chapter on dreams.

It was two paragraphs in one of the other chapters, maybe eight or nine.

I was seeing these connections with nightmares and I was like, this is interesting.

I need to mention it.

And I mentioned it briefly.

And then my editor came back and was like, you need to say more about this.

This is really interesting.

And I was like, okay.

So I dug more into dream research and I was like, okay, Camille was right again.

She knows more about how to write this book than I do.

So I ended up writing a whole chapter on dreams.

And the idea is that there's this great theory about why does dreaming exist in the first place?

Why do we have the machinery for it?

How did we develop the machinery to hallucinate a full experience?

And we hallucinate it not just cognitively, but emotionally.

Our bodies would move if there was not an off switch.

Yes, yes, yes.