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24 alternatives to This American Life - 556: Same Bed, Different Dreams

People that imagine radically different futures.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. This American Life - 556: Same Bed, Different Dreams launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   American Mythology - The American Dream▲70

   What is the American Dream and how has it changed?

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   This American Life - My Damn Mind▲68

   The brain can betray you or benefit you. Act I w/ the NYT

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   This American Life - Something Only I Can See▲77

   This week: people trying to show others what they see

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Dept. of Speculation▲61

   Life gets in the way of dreams and plans

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming▲69

   How can design inspire us to think about our future?

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   This American Life - 562: The problem we all live with▲89

   First of a two-part series rethinking and reinvent education

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   This American Life - How to Win Friends and Influence People▲76

   Stories of people climbing to be number one.

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   This American Life - 583: It'll Make Sense When You're Older▲66

   Stories about growing up and gathering knowledge.

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Dudes of Disruption Ep 5 - Planning from The Future and Not Your Past▲52

   The power of living in your present based on a declaration

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Dreamer Map▲67

    See the dreams people are having around the world

    2023 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Dudes of Disruption- 23: Money▲53

    Our beliefs about money are tied to many areas of our life

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Freakonomics Podcast - Is the American Dream Really Dead?▲70

    More 30-year-olds earn less than their parents vs 10 yrs ago

    2017 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Da Vinci Curse▲74

    Life Design for People With Too Many Interests and Talents

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    This American Life - #567: What's Going On In There?▲81

    From the outside, we think we know exactly what’s going on.…

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Freakonomics: The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think▲55

    Kevin Kelly tries to predict the inevitable future.

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    The Utopia Experiment▲103

    An attempt to live life as if global society collapsed

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    2017 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Morning Short: "In The Home Stretch" By Robert Frost▲53

    An amazing narrative poem about the relativity of time

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Create Or Hate: Successful People Make Things▲128

    We are all creative — there is a creator in you.

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Infinite Home: A Novel▲60

    An unlikely mix of people bond to form a quasi family

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Dream Generator▲86

    The first mobile app that influences your dreams

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Dreamhub: Dream Stories▲95

    Store dreams and share with others

    2022 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Digital Time Capsule▲106

    Discover the dreams, hopes and ideas you once held

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Remee▲103

    Lucid dream enabler

    2014 · its alternatives →

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