Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.

In every episode I hand pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

Only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.

You know, I strive in my life to be a lucid dreamer, to actually practice attempting

to influence what I dream, to produce a state of dreaming where I am in fact aware that

I am dreaming so that I can more control the events of the dream and most importantly,

how I behave in the cause of those events.

Lucid dreaming is fascinating to me because it allows us to experience things that we could

never manifest in real life, like flying, right?

It also allows our conscious brains to dictate those experiences, which is cool.

And now there's even research being done to figure out if lucid dreaming can help us

practice skills, train our brains.

It's a surgeon could practice performing an operation, right?

But it makes me think, should we intrude on our subconscious, on our sleeping brains,

to exert control or to be productive in yet another aspect of our lives?

Is it a good or bad idea to steer our dreams in any way?

In the world of today's story, dreams can be programmed.

The main character works as a dream concierge.

Her employer designs and implements dreams for clients, for a fee, of course.

Mr. Dawn, how can you be so cruel?

Is the work of the writer Violet Allen?

And it was originally published in the anthology entitled Ignorance Is Strength, edited by

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