This document provides an overview of various dream and human interest topics that will be covered by Cunnart Associates. The topics related to dreams include how and why we dream, using dreams to problem-solve, influencing dreams, dream recall and interpretation, common dreams, and dreams in therapy. Other topics include Canadian topics such as facts about Canada, Canadian phrases, famous Canadians, and historical events. Additional human interest topics explore the origins of nursery rhymes, honoring unknown soldiers, common sayings, and the history of beer steins.

1. Dream Topics
A series of topics looking into the
power and influence of dreams.
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2. Living the Nightlife:
How and why we dream
• While dreams have been studied for centuries, it
is only recently that scientists have actively
examined what causes us to dream.
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3. Using Dreams to Problem-Solve
Learn how sleep and dreams
can help solve niggling problems.
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4. Influencing Our Dreams
In Dreams one minute you're winning the Nobel Prize in
science and the next minute you're hiking through a forest
with your best friend. This presentation will help you
develop an ability to affect the nature of your dreams.
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Dreamland

5. Dream Recall: Remembering Dreams
• To remember dreams, connect your waking and
dreaming memories. Some common methods for
increasing your dream memories.
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6. Interpreting Our Dreams
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• Methods for dream interpretation have changed
over the centuries. Learn today’s best methods
and how they differ from the past.

7. Top 10 Most Common Dreams
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• Learn what the most common dreams are –
worldwide …

8. Dreams and Nightmares in Therapy
• Dreams often reflect matters that bother us.
Learn how therapists, from ancient times to day,
use dreams to resolve issues.
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I told my therapist about you!

9. Canadian Topics
Many non-Canadians see
Canada as “a European (or
English) version of America."
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10. Canadian Topics
• A Few Fun Facts about Canada
o How much do you know? Learn how Canada, and
Canadians really aren’t as boring as you may think.
• How to Speak Canadian
o English-speaking Canadians have many words and
phrases that baffle foreigners. Be prepared to speak
Canadian when you visit the next port!
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11. Canadian Topics
• Lucy Maud Montgomery - author
• Children's novel Anne of Green Gables recounts how 11-
year-old orphan girl is mistakenly adopted in Prince
Edward Island. Ann has sold more than 50 million
copies and been translated into 20 languages.
• Terry Fox: Canadian Hero
• Canada, a country not given to anointing hero-status on
anyone, found one in Terry Fox. Anger at his cancer
diagnosis lead him to raise funds to save the lives of
children and other cancer patients. Hear the lengths he
went to, to achieve this feat.
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12. • The Halifax Explosion: World War I Catastrophe
o A maritime disaster happened in Halifax, Nova Scotia
on 6 December 1917. a ship carrying high explosives
collided with another vessel SS Imo causing the biggest
man-made explosion before the bombing of Hiroshima.
• Newfoundland – The Hesitant Province
o Canada’s newest province joined Canada in 1949. Hear
their options and how its citizens chose confederation.
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13. Human Interest Topics
A series examining topics that you
may wonder about, but never
explored.
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14. Human Interest Topics
• The Surprising Origins of Nursery Rhymes
o Learn the stories behind common nursery rhymes. You
will never look at them the same way again.
• Honouring Our Unknown Soldiers
o Surprisingly, unknown soldiers have only been
honoured recently. Hear how the concept developed
and the great lengths undertaken to honour the first
unknown soldier.
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15. Human Interest Topics
• Why Do We Say That?
o Some sayings are so common – yet we have forgotten
why we use them. Get the stories behind words,
expressions and clichés we use.
• A Short History of Beer Steins
o Learn how, and why, beer steins were developed. This
talk describes the materials, designs and what
fascinates collectors.
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