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Question: A number of years ago I dreamed I was swimming with the great writer Joan Didion and she swam directly over to me and said, “I have something for you in my hands underwater. Take them”–I then woke up, whatever she had been holding an eternal mystery. So I have two questions. a) What dd Joan Didion have in her hands? b) Why is it that we have some dreams that feel so much more real than anything, even the most beautiful or traumatic events in real life? I don’t know what to make of this.
Answer:
Jane Michelle Wilson
Jane Michelle Wilson, who, over the course of her life has actually been a professional advice-giver. (As The Advice Lady in the National Post and Janereaction in The Toronto Star.) Nowadays she gives her advice – solicited or un – privately.
One terrible night in 1984 she asked a non-pregnant woman when her baby was due. The horror of that moment lives with her still and she has never forgotten it. She thinks some worries are useful lessons, but most are just crap.
One terrible night in 1984 she asked a non-pregnant woman when her baby was due. The horror of that moment lives with her still and she has never forgotten it. She thinks some worries are useful lessons, but most are just crap.