It’s a Thin Line Between Magical Thinking and Mental Illness

The magic — and the danger — of looking for patterns in the world

Jen Sonstein Maidenberg
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readJun 11, 2019

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LLast night, while searching “the significance of 38,” I landed on a Yahoo! Answers page. It was not the first time I’ve sought comfort in strangers’ answers to other strangers’ questions.

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Jen Sonstein Maidenberg
Human Parts

Dreamwork practitioner, researcher, writer. Healthfully obsessed with dreams, time, & memory. To learn about one-on-one dreamwork, visit jenmaidenberg.com