Reflective Essay Topics

In this essay, I will be discussing three topics that reflect the mental and physical changes that my work has gone throughout the semester. Therefore, I will be breaking these topics the down and explaining what has changed in me over the period of this course and what I wish I could have done differently. And, well, honestly it does not feel like my writing has changed that much, however, after comparing old work I did notice a few changes. One of these changes is the fact of using more fluent language in my essays. For example, before I started college, I never thought about using such words as although, therefore, consequentially in my sloppy writing. The main problem I kept on noticing is that I write too many run-on sentences and so …show more content…
This story was part of weekly response six and which it helped me create a monster from diving down into my past fears. Consequentially, when I was young I feared the darkness because my childhood imagination ran amuck every time I would look directly into any big dark space. Therefore, when everyone went to bed at night in my household my folks would keep the bathroom light on to make a line across the hall separating the darkness between my room, the living room to make me feel safe. However, every night I felt like I was being watched by something sinister, so I would look across the hall to see what is causing me to feel this way, my mind would play tricks on me. My mind would construct some foul creature hiding in the darkness preparing to pounce. And, over a few more years, some more evidence added to this fear, my nightmares started to get worse. It felt like the nightmares were consuming my mind by the very darkness I feared. Several nights I woke up with the feeling of something caressing across my leg and it felt like a long hand, this fear re-emerged just three years ago with the final piece of the puzzle. I was in the middle of another lucid dream, regrettable I did something very stupid in the dream. In this dream, I was walking into a haunted house calling out a demon for being a coward. Therefore, the demon started to growl, snarl in my ear, then out of nowhere I started having an immense amount of pressure put on my throat, and the demon started to laugh. Resulting in me waking up with no one in the room beside my brother and he was fast asleep. However, I was paralyzed with fear, could not breathe, or move anything except my hands. Therefore, I tried to move them towards my throat to try to unclench whatever was choking me. Sadly, it was no use I could not escape its grasp, resulting in the last resort of