Theme: Dreams are a free plane ticket to travel the world in your mind.
One main theme I found in the alchemist was dreams. Because In the beginning of the book the boy goes to sleep in an abandoned church and he says he had the same dream 3 times in a row to the palm reader. The dream was him traveling across the world looking for treasure in Egypt. A published study suggests that dreaming about a new or difficult task can actually make the task easier to perform once awake. In the experiment, volunteers were asked to navigate through a virtual maze. After familiarizing themselves with the maze, the subjects slept in the third step of the study, subjects were again asked to navigate through the maze. People who slept improved on the task more than those who did not sleep, and those who dreamed about the maze improved the most. This article kind of goes in with the book reference because he dreamt about the same thing and in the end his dream became reality.
Theme: Dreams are a free plane ticket to travel the world in your mind. …show more content…
I believe this kind of represents dreaming about death, because war is usually associated with death so “Lucien Majors, 84, sat at his kitchen table, he told his wife Jan his recent dream. He said he had end-stage bladder cancer and was in renal failure. As he spoke with a doctor he said, ‘he was in his car with his great pal, Carmen. His three sons, teenagers, were in the back seat, joking around. “We’re driving down Clinton Street,” said Mr. Majors, his watery, pale blue eyes widening with delight at the thought of the road trip. “We were looking for the Grand Canyon.” And then they saw it. “We talked about how amazing, because there it was — all this time, the Grand Canyon was just at the end of Clinton Street!” His sons are in their late 50s and early 60s and He died three weeks later due to the
One main theme I found in the alchemist was dreams. Because In the beginning of the book the boy goes to sleep in an abandoned church and he says he had the same dream 3 times in a row to the palm reader. The dream was him traveling across the world looking for treasure in Egypt. A published study suggests that dreaming about a new or difficult task can actually make the task easier to perform once awake. In the experiment, volunteers were asked to navigate through a virtual maze. After familiarizing themselves with the maze, the subjects slept in the third step of the study, subjects were again asked to navigate through the maze. People who slept improved on the task more than those who did not sleep, and those who dreamed about the maze improved the most. This article kind of goes in with the book reference because he dreamt about the same thing and in the end his dream became reality.
Theme: Dreams are a free plane ticket to travel the world in your mind. …show more content…
I believe this kind of represents dreaming about death, because war is usually associated with death so “Lucien Majors, 84, sat at his kitchen table, he told his wife Jan his recent dream. He said he had end-stage bladder cancer and was in renal failure. As he spoke with a doctor he said, ‘he was in his car with his great pal, Carmen. His three sons, teenagers, were in the back seat, joking around. “We’re driving down Clinton Street,” said Mr. Majors, his watery, pale blue eyes widening with delight at the thought of the road trip. “We were looking for the Grand Canyon.” And then they saw it. “We talked about how amazing, because there it was — all this time, the Grand Canyon was just at the end of Clinton Street!” His sons are in their late 50s and early 60s and He died three weeks later due to the