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Mind

The inner workings of the self — attention, memory, emotion and meaning.

Why we dream in stories

The sleeping brain is a restless, compulsive narrator. We are only its audience.

by Priya Nair

More in Mind

8 pieces

The weather inside

Moods are not interruptions of thought. They are its climate, its prevailing wind.

by Lena Fischer

Attention, please

How the economy of distraction quietly rewires not just what we do, but what we want.

by Sofia Marin

On the edge of memory

What neuroscience and poetry both know about the moment a recollection slips away.

by Daniel Okoro

Boredom is a door, not a wall

The empty hour we dread may be exactly the one the mind most needs.

by Priya Nair

The grammar of grief

Mourning has a syntax. Learning to read it may be the first step toward speaking again.

by Lena Fischer

Static

Silent panels on the noise between a thought and the words that were meant to carry it.

by Ren Adeyemi

Signal

A boy builds a radio out of a library diagram, to hear something that is not there.

by Marco Vidal

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