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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Are the faces I see in dreams recalled from real life or figments of my imagination?

Who are these people? Dream sequence from Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945).
Who are these people? Dream sequence from Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945). Photograph: Alamy Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo

In my dreams I encounter detailed, vivid, credible human representations of utter strangers, singly or in crowded street scenes. Are they the people my mind recorded automatically as I moved around in my waking life or have noted in films, or are they simply figments of my imagination? I normally work with words, not pictures.

Bill Finn, St Paul, Alberta, Canada

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