Dr. Emily Cook

It's very practical the way we talk about unemployment.

But actually, we know from elsewhere in the academic literature that

It's really a profound disruption of your identity.

It really takes you away from who you thought you were and where you thought you were going.

And for us, this is what's really missing in conversations around unemployment at the moment.

And as you know, there are many conversations in the public discourse at the moment around unemployment.

Well, for us, something that I think our main takeaway would be that dreams are the most valuable data source that we have.

They can tell us things that we simply cannot get from surveys, from interviews, from user behavior.

A lot of what we want to understand about ourselves and about other people is living in this dream data.