NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum’s acclaimed BRAINWAVE series is back for its fourth season, with a new focus on the relationship between dreams and creativity, prophecy and consciousness. A number of dialogues between writers and scientists involved in the study of the mind will explore the connection between storytelling and vivid dreaming. Kicking off this set of talks is prize-winning writer Nathan Englander and neuroscientist Amir Raz, who will delve into the power of suggestion in dreams on February 27. Subsequent conversations include writer Amy Tan with clinical psychologist Deidre Barrett on dream-induced creative leaps; writer Siri Hustvedt with neuropsychiatrist Jaak Panksepp on the nature of sleep; and legal thriller writer Scott Turow and neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga explore how justice and retribution are processed in the brain. The BRAINWAVE series seeks to explore a broad range of questions surrounding the