Track 1 — The Digital Unconscious

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We tell each other that dreams are about falling, being chased, teeth crumbling. We downloaded all 44,556 dream reports in the Sleep and Dream Database — 4.5 million words of real dreaming — and analyzed the full corpus. The data disagreed: being chased appears in 3.8% of dreams, teeth in 0.7% — while houses and rooms appear in 41.4%, family in 24.1%. Mostly, we dream of home. 44,500 Nights is built from that finding. Its three movements — THE MYTH, THE HOUSE, THE CHORUS — are the statistics ta