This book is what dreams are made of

Why do we dream? Why are we designed to spend a third of our lives sleeping?

There hasn’t been much explanation as to why people dream. In a study by Morewedge with Norton, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, 149 university students from the United States, India and South Korea were surveyed about dreams. Majority believed that dreams “reveal hidden truths about themselves and the world.”

Dreams, the forever unknown, mysterious rift between yesterday and today, is what author Miye Lee found herself filling with joyful imagination through her Korean bestseller Dallergut Dream Department Store.

The fantasy novel is a story about a department store selling dreams where one can only enter when asleep. It’s full of interesting people and places that capture the hearts of the sleeping customers, like a food truck that sells snacks to ensure a good night’s sleep, and grumpy Noctilucases who frantically dresses customers arriving without their nightgowns.

Each floor of the department store offers unique dreams in special packaging, filling up the endless shelves to enhance the customers’ everyday lives.

“I used to think a lot about sleeping and dreaming. When we sleep, we are unconscious, and we are not sure what is actually happening. We do spend a long time in that state. And this book has been written after I’ve thought about how to fill that much time with imagination,” Lee said in an interview with The Korea Society.

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