I Dream of... Press

The Economist

2008-08-19T21:18:00.001-04:00

"Barack announced that he wanted to change his middle name to be more patriotic and show his commitment to being a true American. He said from that day forward, his middle name would no longer be Hussein—it would be Congress: Barack Congress Obama."

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PBS

2008-08-19T21:17:00.001-04:00

The pitched battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is the stuff of dreams for political junkies. In fact, the Clinton-Obama race seems to have burrowed its way into the subconscious of a lot of folks these days.

For proof, look no further than I Dream, a site dedicated to collecting peoples' dreams about the Democratic contenders.

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Metafilter

2008-05-17T18:10:00.001-04:00

This is disappointing. I expected a metaphysical poll on the candidates to be something like...

1. Hillary Clinton unfairly attacked premise 3b of Barack Obama's argument against eliminative materialism. T/F?

2. Which candidate's position on temporal parts do you agree with more?

3. Is America ready to provide an answer to the Problem of the Many?"

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The New Yorker

2008-05-17T17:50:00.001-04:00

The interpretation of dreams, according to Freud, is meant to teach us about individual dreamers’ states of mind, not about the people and things that populate our fantasy lives; those are symbols. Teeth, swimming pools, nuns—they stand in for basic human desires and anxieties. When Sheila Heti, a novelist in Toronto, learned that her friend Margaux had recently dreamed about shopping for Tupperware with Hillary Clinton, however, she began to wonder: what if the recurrences of Presidential candidates in people’s dreams were meaningful in the aggregate?

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The Washington Post

2008-05-17T17:48:00.000-04:00

We are dreaming of the candidates. The election has taken over our televisions, our radio stations, our newspapers, and now it has taken over our REM cycles.

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CBC Radio - Search Engine

2008-05-17T17:44:00.001-04:00

Author Sheila Heti's blog about the dreams people have of Hillary and Barack.

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Dennis Cooper's Blog

2008-04-23T17:00:00.000-04:00

I Dream of Hillary/Barack... undermines the old chestnut that no one is interested in listening to someone else tell their dreams. It’s been a hot site since it started a few weeks back, and I think the main reason is that everyone’s interested in Clinton, Obama, and McCain, but not really in anything they actually do or say. So it’s much easier to get caught up in what they get up to in people’s dreams. It’s like imaginary gossip.

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The Leonard Lopate Show - NPR

2008-04-04T08:49:00.002-04:00

Have Obama, McCain, or Clinton ever popped up in your dreams? A new blog project, the Metaphysical Poll, publishes readers’ dreams about the current crop of presidential candidates. Writer and Metaphysical Poll founder Sheila Heti tells us about some of the dreams, and whether she thinks we can read anything meaningful into the candidates’ cameos in dreams.

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Here And Now - NPR

2008-03-30T12:27:00.002-04:00

Canadian writer Sheila Heti recently started the website "I Dream of Hillary, I Dream of Barack," where hundreds of people have now submitted dreams they've had of the U.S. presidential candidates. We speak to Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association, about what these dreams might tell us about the collective unconscious of the American public this election year.

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The Huffington Post

2008-03-25T17:45:00.001-04:00

I have a dream. A recurring dream. A dream that will not go away. And I'm willing to bet that in some form or another--you have it, too. It's pretty standard: I'm flying. And sometimes I hit the ground screaming.

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Slate

2008-03-25T17:42:00.001-04:00

Last month, Canadian novelist and blogger Sheila Heti began gathering and posting online e-mails from ordinary citizens relating dreams they'd had—not hopes-and-ambitions-type dreams, but literal dreams experienced during the Rapid Eye Movement stage of nighttime slumber—about the three leading major-party candidates for president. A graduate student in California described seeing Hillary Clinton wearing a dress made from the fleece of an endangered penguin.

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Day To Day - NPR

2008-03-10T19:36:00.005-04:00

Actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fascinated by the site, so she talked to her rabbi, Mel Gottlieb. He's also a Jungian psychoanalyst and he interprets a few of those candidate dreams.

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Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Dallas)

2008-03-04T22:00:00.001-05:00

Is the election on your mind day and night? You're not alone.

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Baltimore Sun

2008-03-04T21:58:00.001-05:00

Sen. Barack Obama's autobiography is entitled Dreams From My Father, but nowhere in that book do the dreams involve writing on hamburger buns, eating ballots or Obama chasing people through the streets of New York.

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LA Times

2008-03-04T11:42:00.001-05:00

Let's say you're in the mall and Hillary walks up and says she's had another argument with Bill and needs a hug. So you hug and she asks if you voted for her and you say yes, even though you didn't, because she looks sad. Suddenly, you're at the railroad station, but the train is just departing and Barack Obama is standing at the back door, waving. Behind him is your mother. And she's not happy. Sheila Heti wants to hear from you.

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New York Magazine

2008-03-04T00:08:00.001-05:00

Excerpts of recent dreams submitted to IDreamofHillaryIDreamofBarack.com, a blog run by writer Sheila Heti...

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Chicago Tribune

2008-03-04T00:04:00.001-05:00

Sen. Barack Obama's autobiography is titled "Dreams From My Father," but nowhere in that book do the dreams involve writing on hamburger buns, eating ballots or Obama chasing people through the streets of New York.

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NOW Magazine - Toronto

2008-03-02T21:59:00.002-05:00

Of all the hype spillage into Canada from American Obamaniacs and Clintonistas, these two sites are probably the most imaginative. Both collect and post reader's dreams - that's sleeping dreams, not other kinds of dreams - of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with a quick background on the dreamer.

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