LOGISTICS OF DREAMING:INVESTIGATING HOW

Mother Nature is in the business of writing software programs in DNA. Dreaming is our software program, and it is also how early Homo sapiens learned logic and the use of tools.

Author Jerry DC Nelson is neither a scientist, a doctor, nor a physiologist-just an engineer with a bottomless thirst for details on how everything works. When some of his dreams became intriguing, Nelson began to wonder why we dream. What makes us dream, and how do we dream?

During Nelson's search for answers, he interviewed friends, read books and articles on the dreaming brain, and watched television programs pertaining to the functions of the brain. In all his research, he never found any satisfactory answers to the question of why we have these wonderful, unique, strange, and bizarre dreams. Then, after recording hundreds of dreams, he started to see particular patterns emerging, which lead him to formulate several theories. When Mother Nature was worked into the equation, everything fell into place.

After having recorded more than 4,000 dreams and conducted many years of research, Nelson is confident that he has enough detailed information to back up his theories on why we dream. Logistics of Dreaming is his way of sharing some of Mother Nature's brilliancies concerning the dreaming brain.

In 1950, Minnesota native Jerry DC Nelson joined the Navy to serve in the Korean War. As an electronic technician, he was responsible for the maintenance of the electronic equipment aboard his ship.

After his Navy hitch, Nelson went to Milwaukee School of Engineering to earn a degree in mechanical engineering. He married, settled down in Minneapolis, and became the father of two children, Dan and Julie.

Nelson spent twenty-five years working for Univac (now Unisys) designing mainframe computers. He is very active in his community, and his hobbies are designing, photography, and model building.

In 1955 Nelson started to take notice of some interesting attributes in his dreams. At first, his dream recording was very sporadic, but as time went on his interest increased, and he eventually recorded all of his dreams with more detail. This led to a continuous research effort pertaining to dreams.