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11 September 2015updated 26 Jul 2021 9:20am

Why is everyone having weird dreams about Jeremy Corbyn?

People keep dreaming about Jeremy Corbyn. What is going on in the nation's unconscious?

By Anoosh Chakelian

Everyone’s voting for Jeremy Corbyn. And when they’re not voting for him, they’re dreaming about him. He is the socialist hero of the nation’s unconscious. He’s literally starting a revolution from our beds. But how come? And what are our slumbering brains trying to tell us?

About a month ago, Chris Brooke, a lecturer in political theory at Cambridge, noticed a number of his friends and online contacts relaying their dreams about Jeremy Corbyn. He was surprised when two such messages popped up on his Twitter timeline on the same day, both written by people he knew.

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