OnDreaming: The Blog

DAVID FROST: You said to me last time but I have to admit that I still wake up every morning and have to get over the shock of not being able to move, do you feel that less and less now?
CHRISTOPHER REEVE: Absolutely less and less and it’s very interesting, when I’m asleep, you know when I’m dreaming I’ve never been disabled.
DAVID FROST:  Yes.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE: In seven years I’ve always been out sailing and riding, skiing, doing things that are very active in my dreams and it turns out that just dreaming about those active things actually activates the motor-neurones in the brain so that part of my recovery may be due to the fact that I’m activating motor-neurones even while I sleep.
DAVID FROST:  That’s fascinating.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE: It’s pretty amazing.
DAVID FROST:  And that links up with your message in the book of hope, once we choose hope everything’s possible, you say?
CHRISTOPHER REEVE: Yes…