Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2026-01-01

Books mentioned on CLASSIC: Have dreams really predicted the future? Chapter II

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Could human dreams really, in some way, predict the future? At first, it sounds like the stuff of science fiction...

Ben Bowlin discussed A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Also mentioned: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   A Christmas Carol

   Charles Dickens · at 0:39

   A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a famous 1843 novella about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his midnight visitations by ghostly specters that transform his life.

   Discussed

   “And I think it's also appropriate in these holiday times thinking about like uh Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and Ebenezer Scrooge”

   Ben Bowlin CLASSIC: Have dreams really predicted the future? Chapter II 2026-01-01 Listen at 0:39

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   Life on the Mississippi

   Mark Twain · at 47:43

   Life on the Mississippi is a famous memoir and travel book by Mark Twain that recounts his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, alongside a later journey through the region.

   Discussed

   “and it comes from life on the Mississippi, which is Samuel Clemens or Mark Twain's autobiography.”

   Speaker CLASSIC: Have dreams really predicted the future? Chapter II 2026-01-01 Listen at 47:43

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