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I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I'm also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword.
Chloe Benjamin
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I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.
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Magic is still a very white-male-dominated field.
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I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.
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It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.
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I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties.
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You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.
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My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.
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I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.
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I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias.
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Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.
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I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.
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