Five Great Reads: neurotic relationships, Europe’s far right and why are your dreams like that?

‘I have no trouble with the idea that dreams reveal something,’ one neuroscientist says. ‘What’s surprising is that after 120 years of dream research – and all the technology at our fingertips – we still know so little.’ Photograph: PhotosIndia.com LLC/Alamy

Good morning and welcome back to the Five Great Reads newsletter, where my colleague Kris and I bring you our favourite pieces from around the Guardian – or at least the ones that most interested us from the week that’s been.

(On which note, keep watching what’s happening in Gaza. And RIP Donald Sutherland.)