This week on “Sunday Morning” (May 17)

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Posted by CBS Sunday Morning on Thursday, May 14, 2020

FACEBOOK LIVE CHAT: Lee Cowan

Our correspondent will answer viewer questions on the CBS Sunday Morning Facebook page after our broadcast Sunday, May 17 beginning at 11 a.m. ET. 

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Host: Jane Pauley

      

OPENING: “Abblasen”

      

COVER STORY: The stuff of dreams

From tidal waves consuming New York City to toilet paper nightmares, reports of apocalyptic, frightening or just plain bizarre pandemic-driven dreams are everywhere. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks about anxiety-fueled dreams with Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett, who has collected thousands of pandemic dreams and nightmares as part of a study of our sleep-state responses to coronavirus; Mississippi State University professor Michael Nadorff; and poet Jackie Wang and artist Sandra Haynes, whose dreams have provided metaphorical stories of fear and triumph.

For more info:

• Jackie Wang (Poetry Foundation)
• Deirdre Leigh Barrett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
• Take Deirdre Barrett's Coronavirus Dream Survey (surveymonkey.com)
• “The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving – and How You Can, Too” by Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. (Oneiroi Press), available in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon
• Artist Sandra Haynes
• Michael R. Nadorff, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Mississippi State University

       

EDUCATION: Class of 2020: A graduation season like no other

Rituals matter, and the time-honored rituals of a high school or college graduation have been taken away from seniors and their families because of the 2020 pandemic. Correspondent Rita Braver talks with students and educators about how this generation is responding to a defining societal event.

For more info:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

POSTCARD FROM ITALY: Balconies: The new performance space

Quarantine has popularized a new venue for musicians and singers. Seth Doane reports how, in Italy, musical artists lacking a stage are making their balconies and terraces a platform for bringing communities together.

For more info:

• Zeneba Bowers and Matt Walker's performance videos (Facebook)
• “Tuscany, Italy: Small-town Itineraries for the Foodie Traveler” by Zeneba Bowers and Matt Walker (Little Roads Publishing), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon
• Art historian, author and tour guide Liz Lev
• Fabio and Jacopo Mastrangelo's balcony performance videos (Facebook)

MUSIC: Graham Nash

Anthony Mason interviews the singer-songwriter, whose sold-old tour was cancelled due to coronavirus. 

PREVIEW: Graham Nash has created half an album of new song demos while in social isolation

For more info:

• grahamnash.com

        

CORONAVIRUS: Living in isolation

The forced isolation brought about by stay-at-home orders poses an unnatural state for human beings conditioned to thrive on social interactions, but our experience of being alone could just inspire a new way of living. Lee Cowan talks with professors of sociology and genomics, and with a Benedictine monk, about how to adapt to the stresses of this period of isolation, and explores how some people are coping via hobbies – sketching, baking, or quilting.

For more info:

• Jack Fong, sociology professor, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, Calif.
• Steve Cole, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA School of Medicine
• St. Andrew's Abbey, Valyermo, Calif.

TRAVEL: The Faroe Islands' virtual tourism

The picturesque Faroe Islands, located halfway between Iceland and Norway, were gearing up for a record-breaking tourist deluge this year, until the coronavirus pandemic scuttled the world's travel plans. So now, the Faroese Tourism Bureau is serving as the eyes and ears of those forced to put their trips on hold. Equipped with cameras and headsets, volunteers are live-streaming hour-long walks through the islands' stunning landscapes, taking their guidance from online visitors who direct their movements from home. Conor Knighton reports.

For more info:

• remote-tourism.com
• Faroese Tourism Bureau

      

HARTMAN: TBD

     

DISASTER: Mount St. Helens anniversary

Forty years ago, the volcano in Washington state erupted in a series of bursts that killed 57 and triggered a debris avalanche that destroyed hundreds of square miles of forest. Luke Burbank looks back at the largest volcanic event in U.S. history.

For more info:

• Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
• 40th Anniversary Virtual Events
• Mount St. Helens Visitors Center, Castle Rock, Wash. (Washington State Parks)
• “Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens” by Steve Olson (W.W. Norton), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
• steveolson.com

COMEDY: Jerry Seinfeld

In his new Netflix special, “23 Hours to Kill,” comedian Jerry Seinfeld offers a hilarious standup act recorded before the world shut down – a time capsule that, through his on-point observational humor, is a piquant reminder of what performers and audiences are now missing because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tracy Smith chats with Seinfeld (via Zoom, of course) about what he gets excited about now; having only his family as an audience; and whether he believes we will ever get back to “normal.”

To watch a trailer for “23 Hours to Kill” click on the video player below:

For more info:

• “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill” (Netflix)
• Follow Jerry Seinfeld on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
• “Seinfeld” on Amazon Prime

        

COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan on living in unprecedented times

The comedian, now in Week 9 of his quarantine, reflects on just how many precedents have been broken in 2020.

See also: 

• Week 1: Family life under lockdown
• Week 2: Life in quarantine is like a sitcom
• Week 3: Spring arrives!
• Week 4: Lessons of “distance learning”
• Week 5: Kids, quarantine and sanity are not compatible
• Week 6: Consuming all news, all the time
• Week 7: Jim Gaffigan discovers he misses strangers
• Week 8: On sharing dinner with the masses

       

For more info: 

• jimgaffigan.com
• Follow @JimGaffigan on Twitter
• Watch “Dinner with the Gaffigans” on YouTube

      

BETWEEN THE LINES: Humor from The New Yorker

      

AT HOME: Tony Dokoupil & Katy Tur

The married “CBS This Morning” co-host and MSNBC anchor have each had to make do broadcasting from their basement.

For more info:

• “CBS This Morning”
• “MSNBC Live with Katy Tur”

       

         

NATURE: Fiji

       

WEB EXCLUSIVES:

SNAPSHOT: Pandemic – The Jersey Shore

Summer at the Jersey Shore is a rite of passage for millions. But shortly before Memorial Day weekend, the beach communities sit quiet. Images by Lori Nichols, a staff photographer for NJ Advance Media.

For more info:

• Lori Nichols (Instagram)

       

COMMENTARY: Joel Sartore: For nature, life goes on

The National Geographic photographer says it took a terrible pandemic to give Mother Nature a break.

For more info:

• joelsartore.com | The Photo Ark project
• Follow @JoelSartore on Twitter and Facebook

       

“SUNDAY MORNING” MATINEE: Juilliard graduates

       

       

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