Such strange dreams! Such strange and awful dreams, Sandy! Dreams that were as real as reality – delirium, of course but so real!” (Twain 467). 1.…
What are dreams designed to do? How do we dream? Do they even mean anything? These are questions people may contemplate when they wake in the morning after encountering a series of thoughts, images, and sensations that occurred during their sleep. Every person in the world – big or small, rich or poor – has drifted off and dreamt at some point in their life.…
Consequently, dream also conveys unattainable wishes or unrealistic expectations. More often than not, dreams are just words. Yet, what happens when one tries to live within a dream? What happens when a society tells itself that reality is not as ugly as it seems and that everything is okay and everyone is happy? In his book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates not only outlines the results of such a situation but also unveils that this is how our society is functioning everyday, lost in a dream.…
Too many people bank on the idea that there is time. Time to do all they have plan out to do. People wake up every day to sit at a desk all day to do the same work they do every day. Then they drive home on the same roads they do every day, and come home to do the same routine every day. Working at a job they don’t like, in a town they don’t like, surrounded by people they don’t like.…
In order to understand what dreams are, we must be able to understand how they occur while we are sleeping, the historical viewpoint of them, as well as the importance of their existence and symbolism. III. (Memorable Closing) John Lennon once said, “I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one,” and indeed he wasn’t. We are all dreamers, all people of diverse background, of varying experiences, and difference in ages experience dreams.…
Like the Continuity Hypothesis, the content has also evolved as the dreamer matures. When a person is younger, dream themes tend to be about pain or death, as our ancestors would have dreamed when struggling for survival. As life progresses, the constant strive for survival is realized to not be as difficult in these modern times. The content of dreams introduces the new theme of failure and embarrassment – more common problems of…
Dreams are the one thing in the world that everyone has in common. No matter where one is from, he or she has undoubtedly dreamt while sleeping. What separates these unconscious encounters is how each individual interprets them. In Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, he claims that dreams act as wish fulfilment. While many may agree, the argument backing up this point of view is quite unreliable.…
Dreams can sometimes feel so real and when they do; boy, it can be very scary. A few nights ago I was having a really bad dream - a nightmare you could say. I don't remember exactly what was happening in the dream but what I do recall is being aware that I was dreaming. That alone was very strange because I've never had a dream where I knew it wasn't real while it was happening. My dreams have always felt very real and I’ve always been helplessly trying to figure out an escape.…
Community-Based Dreaming for Recovery In the deepest sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other. – CG Jung Community-Based Dreaming is a curriculum that has been in development for some years to offer experiential dream circles within a community setting. It blends depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, fairytale theory, and community building as part of a wider mission to infuse modern culture with imagination. Stromsted (2015) noted for thousands of years, early traditional people saw dreams as oracles that could help one navigate life, in the Soul’s Body webinar.…
Inception: Perception Changes Reality Christopher Nolan is known for his intellectual takes on genre pieces. Often incorporating his appreciation and love of the film medium, it could be argued that while he does not always resort to cheap twists, his eye for what separates film from other forms of entertainment and how he uses it to play with the audiences’ expectations and notions seems to be what primarily separates him from his contemporaries. Inception is no exception to this, and in fact shows that even while in the middle of directing Batman, he can produce an interesting mixture of the faster paced style he had recently picked up combined with the complex narrative of his previous works he makes a produces an interesting work that is more than the sum of its parts. “Inception" on first viewing, it is best to enjoy it, and save the head-scratching and unavoidable deep interpretations for later. Cobb, a man with a tortured past, is approached by a mysterious benefactor and assembles a crew for the big job offering big rewards.…
I decided to focus my research on the materialising of story ideas from the ‘dreamlets’ (Schacter, 1976), ‘micro-sleeps/dreams’ (Oswald, 1962), or ‘hallucinations’ (Mavromatis, 1987), of the ‘Hypnagogic State’ (Maury, 1848) — the period of threshold consciousness we experience at night as we transition from wakefulness to full-sleep. Despite there being a very similar period experienced in the morning as we transition from full-sleep to wakefulness, referred to as the ‘Hypnopompic State (Myers, 1904) — characteristically identical in nature — this paper is solely concerned with the dreamlets of the hypnagogic state. To follow, I offer my own practical methodology for attempting this, a methodology which invokes and extends upon the work of Paul Carter (‘Material Thinking’, 2004) and Nancy de Freitas (‘Active Documentation’, 2002). Carter states that: Material Thinking occurs in the making of works of art. It happens when the artist dares to ask the simple but far-reaching questions.…
Barrett, Deirdre, and McNamara Patrick. The New Science of Dreaming: Volume 2. Westport: Praeger Perspectives, 2015. Print.…
In Sigmund Freud’s piece, On Dreams, Freud analyzes the dreams of himself and others in order in order to find the purpose of dreams in terms of his own psychoanalytic definition of the mind, in which psychological forces of pleasure seeking and restraint are at constant ends. Freud determines that the principle function of dreams is to fulfill the wishes of the id, or “pleasure principle” which wants instant gratification, so that the ego, the part of the brain that thinks about long term success, can get rest. However if one digs deeper into Freud’s inability to fully disclose his own dreams, and sees that when he “discove(red) the solution of the dream all kinds of things were revealed which (he) was unwilling to admit even to (himself).”…
What are dreams? Dreams are a series of thoughts you have and pictures you see when you are asleep. You can’t control a dream and more than likely when you wake up you 'll forget it. Sometimes people have a type of dream that are known as Lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming is when you are aware of your dream and have the ability to control it.…
If you do a quick search on Google for Dreams, you will get over 7 million results including the definition of dreams which is “successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep” (“Dream” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 January 2016). That definition sounds so scientific in comparison to the dreams I’ve had and while it is accurate in the science of dreams, I am certain that when you dream it feels like more than a succession of images, right? Dreams are amazing and we’ve all had them, whether good or bad; happy or sad – most people will tell you that they’ve had at least one dream in their lives. In fact, everyone dreams but not everyone recalls their…