• What I Mean When I Say I Don’t Dream

    For as long as I can remember, I have told people that I do not dream. I close my eyes at night and open them in the morning with no memory of what happened in between. I had never made much of an effort to change this, so I was curious whether our dream exercise… →

  • What It Means to Still Be “There”

    Watching The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I did not expect humor to be such an important part of how I came to know Jean-Dominique Bauby. The people around him encountered a largely unresponsive patient, while we heard someone who was constantly reacting, judging, and making jokes. When someone called him a vegetable, he wondered… →