...Why are dreams so interesting? They combine fact and fantasy to form a story in our minds. This speech will cover the meanings of dreams, the stages of sleep, notable dreams and some scientific theories about dreams. But what is a dream? Well, even today, on this very day nobody knows what a dream actually is. However there have been some explanations over the years. In the era when the Greek and Roman empires were established, they considered dreams as a religious context and believed that dreams were a direct message from the gods or the dead and that from these dreams, you could predict the future. More modern explanations are said that dreams are simply reflections of your subconscious or that dreams are made up of things that have happened...
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...RESEARCH PAPER - DREAMS About a month ago the two of us brainstormed a few ideas for our first Psychology project. After a weighing the pros and cons of our options, we decided to research dreams and dreaming. We were hoping to learn some information over the vague topic of dreams such as the biology, the causes of dreams, and possibly some of the meanings behind certain dreams. Not only that, but we were interested in the different varieties of dreams people had and why they had them. From the beginning, we had hoped to answer some seemingly basic questions such as “What is a dream?” “What are some different types of dreams people experience?” and “Why would someone experience a certain type of dream?” After many hours and much research, we feel that we were rather successful in answering these and many more questions regarding the topic. So what IS a dream? Well, according to Sigmund Freud, dreams are the, “royal road to the unconscious.” Coming into this project with little to no experience on the topic, it was more than difficult to comprehend why it was that important. “They’re only dreams,” we would say, but after extensive research and reading, it is much easier to follow where Freud was coming from. You see, dreams are not simple; you have to admire the intricacy of a dream interweaving thoughts, ideas, and experiences a person has had in his/her lifetime. The process of dreaming itself connects different parts of the mind that may not be able to find each other...
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...Research suggests that the majority of of dreams occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a recurring cycle of high activity in Stage III and Stage IV sleep. Every thirty minutes at the onset of Stage III sleep, a 90 minute period of REM sleep begins, a phenomenon known as REM rebound. [1] REM is a period of sleep in which the nervous system matures rapidly[2]; infants spend half their sleep in the REM state. [3] During REM sleep, the eyes move at rapid speeds beneath the eyelids, and the body is paralyzed, while in non-REM (nREM), it is not. It has been studied that dreams, while rare, can also occur in nREM sleep; they are often short and involve thought from everyday life when compared to REM dreams using a bizarreness scale. While there is much evidence supporting that dreams happen during REM sleep, there is no definite conclusion yet that REM correlates with dreaming....
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...A few months ago, on a Sunday night before school, I had a dream in which I knew I was asleep, otherwise known as a lucid dream. I could consciously control what I was doing, so that made it all the more real. I could also remember it in vivido detail. When I usually get these dreams, they are happy, but this dream was about to haunt my subconscious world for a few nights. I was alone, standing outside of my house in the rain at night and I was thinking to myself I needed to get inside in order to wake up from my dream. When I reached the front door I placed my knuckles onto the door's small window about to knock. I knew that what I was about to do would get me a little bit closer to waking myself up. The moment I knocked on the door, the banging...
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...The Causes of Certain Dreams Dreams depend on what a person eats before bed and the position which they sleep. The science of sleep explains perfectly what goes on in a person’s unconscious stage throughout the night. Each sleep stage describes how a person’s brain works and the way the body interferes with sleep. Some societies believed that truths are told or revealed through dreams as others think sleep is nonproductive, though essential activity. Someone also might not think the position of which they sleep changes their thought process, but it has been proven several times that it does. Eating can also be the cause of certain dreams. No matter what foods are eaten, there will be a change in a person’s slumber. People might wonder what...
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...Prof. Adam Pfleegor Professional Enhancement Response July 2, 2012 Reflection Paper Response to “Hoop Dreams” Many things in this documentary stood out to me involving the culture of this ethnic group in Chicago. The people’s lives covered in this film were portrayed to be extremely simple, but complex. The film provided public exposure to the myriad problems of race, poverty, parenting concerns, coaching motives, and the amount of emphasis a young black gentleman places on sport. Encompassed by all of these issues was always disregard for one another, as well. Throughout the whole film, I could not help but notice the painful trend of negligence and carelessness towards black individuals. This black culture addressed in the Chicago area didn’t seem to give one another much value either. For some reason there is a lack of motivation to succeed early on unless it is sport. The parents do not seem to enforce a positive work ethic, honesty, and respect. It is no wonder that there was so much violence, drugs, premature pregnancy, and academic drop-outs. From generation to generation in that community, parents fail to teach their children high standards. It could be that children are raising children, which was the issue in William Gates case. In addition, if all they know is basketball growing up and before they reach 16 years old they have a baby on the way, they surely didn’t have enough time to retain anything in their short life before parenthood other...
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...The play “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare is a simple comedy on how life, will not always be how you expect it to be. Throughout the play, there are three different groups of people: the Mechanicals, the royalty, and the fairies. They each have their own role to play and have different characteristics that set them apart from the other groups. This differentiation makes the play more interesting, and it is entertaining to watch how they, intentionally or unintentionally make an everlasting impact on each other’s lives. While the fairies are cunning and mischievous, the royalty is intelligent and self-conceited, and the Mechanicals are foolish and contribute most to the comedy factor of the play. Turning such a well-written play into a movie...
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...Midsummer Night’s Dream (MSND) is one of the masterpieces that Shakespeare has foretold. The play is a tragic comedy that hinges on a group of quarreling lovers. The lovers include Helena, Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander. Lysander and Hermia are in love, but Hermia’s father wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, a man with strong interest in her. Helena is in love with Demetrius, but he has his eyes on Hermia, so he abuses her and puts her down. They seek council with the king of Athens to end the feud, but he gives Hermia three choices, to die, to become a nun, or to marry Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia escape into the woods and the other lovers search for them. Other groups in this play include fairies and the actors putting on a show for the...
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...“Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.” -Vanessa Paradis. Love is an emotional connection between two people. Love is a strong bond between friends, soul mates, or family. Though love can be a strong bond between two people, it can prove to be even more fragile. One mistake, one misstep and the love can disappear. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream it is evident, through the actions of Oberon and Lysander, that love can be both strong and fragile. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the actions of Oberon allows the reader to question the strength of the love between the Fairy King and Titania. Oberon is portrayed to have two personalities. Though he can be caring, loving, and benevolent. Oberon is...
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...Love means many things, to each person it means something different. Sometimes, the word love doesn't even mean love, it merely becomes an image of something we want it to be. In the book a Midsummer Night's Dream love can be defined in three different ways; friendship love, relationship love, and mistaken love. The friendship love comes between the couples Hermia & Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, and Thisbe and Pyramus. In act five Thisbe and Pyramus were shocked but yet accepted what had happened between the couples and set the wedding and events for them. This shows friendship love between the couples because they accepted their differences like true friends do. The next type of love is relationship love. We see it mostly between Hermia...
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...A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of my favourite theatre productions. I've always been fascinated with this tale because of its captivating nature; however, the most enthralling aspect of this production is its characters. If given the opportunity to participate in this production I would choose Titania. Prior to her enchantment, Titania is both ambitious and level-headed. As a powerful fairy queen, Titania has every opportunity to be manipulative or deceitful; however, Titania a loyal being. The loyalty she displays to her fallen mortal friend is a trait many should desire. "And for her sake do I rear up her boy, And for her sake I will not part with him" (2.1.136-137). While under the power of a magical elixir Titania finds herself madly...
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...In “A Midsummer Night’s dream” William Shakespeare shows a variety of different types of love. A few examples of love are: true, parental, friendship, and romantic. Also, Shakespeare shows how easily one’s feelings can change for one another. Even though “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was written in Ancient Greek times, people can easily relate to the different types of love shown throughout the drama. Love can be a beautiful thing or either it can be chaotic and at times nerve racking, but in the end everything works together for the best. Parental love and true love are commonly used in the drama. Hermia saw that parental love can be rather nerve racking because she wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius instead....
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...NIGHTMARE DISORDER: A KASE FROM THAILAND''. It is written by Elsegood, Wongpakaran, and Wannarit. This paper will give a brief background about dreams and what might cause them, and to what do they indicate. This paper also discuss the Control Mastery Theory (CMT), and the Jungian theory, in order to interpret a Thai woman's depressing dreams and treating her nightmare disorder. Then comes the therapy process, and different strategies to treat the patient. The article then gives a case example to a patient called Yani, it discusses her background, worries, and her struggles with the Naga Dreams, and her cultural influence. The article discusses her treatment plan, course of therapy, and the therapeutic outcome. After her treatment, the article displays the critique of theoretical approach. In the end it discusses the implications for mental health...
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...1. Give the reference, in APA style, for the article. Pesant, G., & Zadra A. (2006). Dream Content and Psychological Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study of the Continuity Hypothesis. Journal Of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 62(1), 111–121 2. What is the general topic that this paper is addressing? What has previous research on this (or related) topics demonstrated? What is the purpose of the research described in this paper? How does it complement the previous research on this topic? What is/are the author(s) hypothesis/hypotheses? Do the hypotheses make sense to you? The topic of the article is addressing the continuity hypothesis, which states that there is a direct influence on an the content of an individual's dreams due to factors in their waking state. There have been conflicting viewpoints on the topic, i.e. dreams stem from the unconscious mind unaffected by the conscious mind, but contemporary studies tend to support the continuity hypothesis. It supports previous research on this topic by including a longitudinal study, which hasn’t been done before. The author’s hypothesis is that factors in an individual life (relations, personality traits, etc.) are directly correlated an individual's dreams, which makes sense to me. 3. In general, describe the results of the study. (you don't have...
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...Dream Analysis (Reaction Paper) As what I’ve red the dreams reflects on the manifestation of emotions based on reality. So basically, dreams can change the whole personality of a person with the help of different emotions produced by them. To what I personally observed, some creative people converted the forms the see in dreams into real life like cluster of clouds or pictures etc. Freud revolutionizes the way we think about our self and discussed the beliefs of early man, as dreams were connected to demons, gods and mythical deities. Dreams were perceived to be of supernatural nature in primitive times and believed to portend the future. As of what I red, Freud states that every dream is consequential and that the meanings of these dreams will be brought to light, lending information into understanding the individual’s make up. I believe that everyone should give a certain amount of attention to his or her dreams. People should learn from Freud’s belief in the significance of dreams if one were to keep a dream journal and write it daily, it could provide some useful insights to the individual. I have a great belief in dreams and their symbolism, but I do not believe that all dreams have meaning Dream analysis has two (2) types; The Latent Content and The Manifestation Content. Whereof the Manifest Content precedes that dream that we remember upon awakening or remembers the actual happenings and thoughts. While the Latent Content has an underlying meaning...
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