...Dreaming A lucid dream is scientifically defined as one in which the subject is aware that they are in a dream. Lucid dreaming is only experienced in a deep sleep. However, it is a deep sleep that also keeps your mind very active and awake. The dreamer is expected to have a dream over which he or she has complete control. For instance, Lucid Dreaming allows the dreamer to do anything they want. Whether they want to fly, throw fire, or have sex with a stranger, the dreamers mind can create it and act it out as if it were real life ("The Definition of Lucid Dream."). Lucid dreaming can also include interesting conditions such as mutual dreaming. Mutual dreaming is an exercise of the mind at rest that is a branch of lucid dreaming. Mutual dreaming occurs when two dreamers meet up and plan it out in the real world. They agree on a place to meet while in the dream and plan a time to do it. If they are able to...
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...Dream it, believe it, achieve it Welcome to the world of creativity, my world that I ponder upon, my world where I always believe to achieve. When we dream we believe and we will always achieve. The key to achieving is always to have confidence in yourself, so for me I build a safety zone that helps me but down walls that hold me back from being confident, bold and having hope that by believing I can achieve any task ahead of me. I never look at the tick of the clock or the way others see great achievements, because I have hope that can build communities into believing in themselves, a hope that can build a nation into believing in themselves and a dream that can change all believers in achievers. Like great leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr who quotes in his famous speech “I have a dream”, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their boldly and believing that what he will speak into a nation will be achieved, was achieved. There was a shift that changed people into believing that can be free and because of that, what he spoke was what was achieved. He didn’t just ponder and sleep on his dream like “oh yeah I have a dream but I’m going to go back to sleep and keep on dreaming because it’s just a dream” but he believed in himself and got up in front of people and followed that dream, and because he had hope that it could happened, ait was achieved. He made...
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...Lucid Dreaming – A Guide to Controlling your Dreams Introduction Going to bed for eight hours a day means we spend a third of our lives sleeping. For the average life expectancy in Ireland, that’s over 25 years in total. How often do you have a dream? Most people couldn’t say. Dreams are forgotten within minutes of waking up unless they make an active effort to remember and even then it’s difficult. Surprisingly, the average person has between three and five per night spending around a quarter of their time sleeping in a dream. This would be around six and a half years spent just dreaming. Why not use it for something better? Dreaming Dreams are described as: “successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.” Dreams mainly happen during the rapid-eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, where brain...
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...Isn’t it odd how a dream can awaken a soul? Many times over, I have found myself laying in the blankness of night wondering and questioning the details of my own day. This is my least favorite part of the few hours I so-call “sleep,” when the light is too low and silence undoubtedly present. The pulses in my ears and the thud thud thud of my heart try to serenade me in bed. It hasn’t been long since I last thought of my own fragility. I have been dancing on the edge of insanity for the past few months. But it is important, Reader, that you should know that the source of my insanity has been a dream of sorts. In the 1960s, several scientists conducted a series of experiments on individuals to gauge the effectiveness of psychedelics. The focus was primarily on terminal cancer patients who needed reassurance in their lives. In a controlled environment, of course, the subjects were provided with a dose of drug that transported them on the trip of their lives. These trips were so quality and seemingly real that most patients felt as though their trips were one of the most important part of their lives as if having discovered a part of themselves. After hours of arguing with the scientists over the reality of the situation, no amount of reasoning could convince the subjects that their...
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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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...In Samuel Peralta's “A Mother”, the author uses imagery to introduce an accepting mother to demonstrate the genuine gift of love a mother longs for in a family that will affect her individuality and internal self. Peralta expresses the “dreams” of the mother in order to suggest the significance of the gift she initially dreamed of. Indeed, dreams are a part of the internal self; it is an element unique only to an individual. Contrary, the “pockets” are components of the external world; it is a bank of only what the society can afford to have in order to fulfil one’s dreams. Peralta illustrates the “world of glass” in order to symbolize a tiny universe, that the mother wants, protected by glass. In fact, the world of glass is used to denote...
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...RAM Squad dancer. I was born and raised in an urban area; then we moved to America for better education and career for my sisters and I. My parents were not that educated but they spent all their life savings on my sister’s and I’s education. They had a dream for us to get better jobs. As for me, I went to the richest school in India and had the best education that I could have. I didn’t have any goals or dreams about what I wanted to do and what I should do to achieve them— all I knew was that I wanted to be a police officer in the future. The day I moved to America and to my new high school, I realized I needed dreams that would make my life easier and bring a better future to me. This is why I believe in Dreams. They are the most amazing things in life. We all love to dream and we all love I was born and raised in an urban area; then we moved to America for better education and career for my sisters and I. My parents were not that educated but they spent all their life savings on my sister’s and I’s education. They had a dream for us to get better jobs. As for me, I went to the richest school in India and had the best education that I could have. I didn’t have any goals or dreams about what I wanted to do and what I should do to achieve them— all I knew was that I wanted to be a police officer in the future. The day I moved to America and...
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...in proving celebrities can be just as miserable as the rest of us" (Neimark). Jill Neimark describes fame right to the point. On one hand a celebrity has fame and fortune but along on the other hand comes the negative aspects. Celebrities do have the status to motivate people, the money to look stunning, and the wealth to make change in the world. However, their lives are less then perfect, and this price of fame is shown through the stress, depression, substance abuse, rumors, continuos media scrutiny, and the inability to enjoy a normal, private life. Celebrity's lives show society that what... Most people dream of fame and fortune, at least when they are young. When we are chil¬dren, the sky is the limit to our dreams. We dream of becoming a famous athlete, a movie star, governor of our state, or maybe even President of the United States. There is nothing wrong with such dreams. All of today’s superstars were once small children with big dreams, and some of to¬day’s children who are having such dreams will eventually have their dreams come true. As we grow up and grow older, most of us begin to narrow down our range of dreams to things we feel are realistic for us, but we dare not underestimate our abilities or sell ourselves short. And whatever we ultimately become, we can aspire to be good at what we do. Most people do not want to end up just being an ordinary or common person but, in a sense, that is what most of us are, and we can be proud of what and who...
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...“Analysis dreaming according to the dream activation synthesis theory” The activation-synthesis theory explains us that the messages of dreams are not a meaning. They are only processing of brain system when we sleep. The chemicals in the brain transmit message from one nerve cell to another. This electrical energy randomly stimulates memories found in various area of the brain. Also, we have a need to make sense of our world and even while asleep. The brain takes these chaotic memories and creates a logical story line. This theory best explains my dream which I will describe as follows. In my dream, I met giant cockroaches which were taller than I was. I felt very scared because they were very big and they tried to attack me. I ran fast but I could not escape since there were many of them. Then I woke up with a start. On another day, I dreamed that I was driving on the road skillfully and quickly. While I drove past many cars from left to right and right to left, I felt very proud of my driving skill. Therefore, I will show the relation between real life and dream. In the first case, I had seen a cockroach while taking a shower before going to bed. It ran to my leg, and I very do not like them. That represents my concerns about cockroaches and I clearly remember according to the activation synthesis theory. The second dream happened when I was young. I wanted to be a sports car driver in that time because I thought it was very smart. Also at that time, I think about them...
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...anthony garcia Mr Ghali Per 1 Eng 3 3/30/15 Comprehending Dreams People have an extremely difficult time trying to comprehend the meaning of dreams. Fortunately, there are expert psychologists who specialize in understanding dreams. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are the two main psychologists who have theories about dreams. Freud came to the conclusion that dreams can be interpreted as advice for one’s self. Jung believed that dreams are a way for the brain to familiarize with the unconscious. According to Jung, every dream has a positive message and everything can be viewed as paired opposites. This is referred to as “major archetype characters.” The Persona, being the first one, is the representation you provide to the world while conscious. In your unconscious, the persona appears as the Self; “The Self may or may not resemble you physically or may or may not behave as you would.” The second being, the Shadow. The Shadow, “...is the part of yourself that you do not want the world to see because it is ugly or unappealing.” The Shadow represents negative emotions such as fear, anger or weakness. It can come in the form of a murderer or stalker. The message would to address the things the things in your life that you do not want to face. Granted, Freud did believe that, “Dreams often meant the opposite of what they seem to mean.” but Freud believed that this was because our wants or needs are displayed through others. The third is The Anima or Animus. These figures...
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...“Dream Time” by Randall E. Auxier Christopher Nolan’s films, Memento and Inception, both approach the question of how humans experience time. What is known as the “pathologies of temporal experience”, is exemplified in Memento, where Leonard’s head injury breaks his main connection between the present and the past, also by causing him the inability to make new long-term memories. In the movie Inception, this same idea is presented to us but in a different form. Auxier describes it as “ a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams” (Auxier, 280) and begins with firstly explaining the idea of mementoes and totems. A “totem” is an object that the characters in this film keep with them in real life and in the dream world. It is identified as something unique, heavy and that only the owner is allowed to handle. Its purpose is to provide the dream-invaders a way of knowing whether they are in the dream world or in reality. If a totem is expected to fall, or operate in a certain way, then any change in this indicates that you are in a dream. Most importantly, Auxier says that this serves as “a point of connection between what you’re experiencing within yourself (beliefs, perceptions, assumptions) and the way the world really is.” (Auxier, 282) The idea of a “totem” allows for continuity of time in the narrative, it acts as a guide when discontinuities are found. Furthermore, both films attempt to explore the same problem, the continuity and discontinuity in our experience, and...
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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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...The one thing that we do almost every night in our sleep is dream. We have some very good dreams that we want to become part of reality, and also some that we’d like to forget. The common definition for the word dream is “a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep.” (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary). However, the definition for the word dream means more to me than just that. Dreams are interpreted differently by mostly everyone that you come in contact with. Some people think it’s a sign of what is going to happen in the future while others think dreams reveal things about a person, in either there mental or physical state (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3rd volume). For hundreds of years, people have had different views on dreams. For example, according to Plato, dreams are “visions within us, ... which are remembered by us when we are awake and in the external world.” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3rd volume). However, Aristotle’s definition of dreams is “the dream is a kind of imagination, and, more particularly, one which occurs in sleep.” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3rd volume). As you can tell, both of their definitions are pretty vague and left up to the reader to interpret. For many years,...
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...related to dreams, as they allow exploration of the dream world and beyond in a self-conscious way, instead of being locked into a dream. Every night with sleep, dreams occur, whether they are remembered or not, and the physical body is left behind. This may seem strange; however, you might be able to discover a few clues about it. If while falling asleep you have woken up with the sensation that you were falling, it's because you were leaving the body and woke up just as you were falling back into it. So you became aware of coming back into your body, which you could do because you had been outside it. Every single night in sleep everyone leaves their physical body, but is unaware of it because of the process of dreaming. While falling asleep, thoughts and daydreams become dreams, and consciousness of the physical world is lost. When in a dream, the mind merges with the scene of the dreams and what’s actually there is not seen. Instead, the psyche is lost in a series of seemingly random events. These events come from the subconscious. They’re from all the things that go on...
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...Gabriela Cankova 12/3 03/11/2010 The Paralysis Caused by Wealth through Milkman and Guitar’s Characters (Essay) The book “Song of Solomon” represents a coming of age, a change, a metamorphosis in a young man. Throughout their lives Milkman and Guitar experience different childhoods, have different friends and live their lives dissimilarly due to their financial situations. When an opportunity for wealth comes up both of them start dreaming of different things, belongings and experiences. This desire for money paralyses them in that they can’t do anything to achieve their dreams. So even though Milkman and Guitar’s financial situation in their childhood is different, their longing to be rich and have money is equally strong, leaving them paralyzed. However, Milkman is able to escape the stillness in his life and does more than just “yearn”, he works towards achieving his dreams. Growing up Milkman and Guitar develop a different view on money because of their families wealth. In his childhood, Milkman had everything he wanted and grew up being the center of attention. As his family is driving down Not Doctor Street the reaction of the neighbors is described as, “In 1936 there were very few among them who lived as well as Macon Dead. Others watched the family gliding by with a tiny bit of jealousy and a whole lot of amusement…” (Morrison 32). The author is showing a picture in which Milkman and his family are better than everyone else, especially better than most...
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