![]() We’re born into the world with the compulsion to work out our hopes, our faith, and our fears through stories. Jonathan Gottschall, the guy who wrote the book on storytelling, literally, was compelled to begin his own research into the power of narrative after watching his young daughters play out horror show after horror show, terrifying tales that sprang from their imaginations and manifested in perpetual games of pretend. We dream of failure, abandonment, rejection, loneliness, being hurt, causing hurt, loss, sickness, judgment, monsters in endless incarnations, and, of course, death. We daydream thousands of daydreams every single day most of those are scary stories too. Sleep researchers say we spend 80% of our sleep life having nightmares, and it doesn’t stop when we wake up. ![]() One of the weirdest things about being a human is how many horrifying stories we tell ourselves. ![]()
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