Could it be more obvious? Stories in which someone's dream is someone else's nightmare. All of us get into these situations with strangers, with the people we love most, with our own parents, with our children.
Your House, My Nightmare
Ira with 19-year-old Claudia Perez at a furniture store in Claudia's Mexican neighborhood. (4 minutes)
Noise
Writer Sarah Vowell goes to Rock-n-Roll Fantasy Camp in Miami Beach. (16 minutes)
Motion
Jay Allison on people moving into their dream neighborhoods, and their new neighbors' reactions. (7 minutes)
Blood
Writer David Sedaris on parents' dreams and children's nightmares. (13 minutes)
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Then Chicago-radio-listener and writer Alex Blumberg (he's now one of our producers) tells the story of encountering a corporation on its first day.
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Act Two: A Road By Any Other Name
Reporter Aaron Reiss found a woman that an entire community calls, in order to find out the names of the very streets they're walking on.
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