A Bad Dream

By studying dreams and what they mean it can be determined that dreams are sending messages because they are trying to help you with your problems. A. Dreams are your unconscious mind putting an image into your head (Turner). Scientists don’t know what to call dreams but author Penelope Lewis says dreams are “all perceptions, thoughts , or emotions experienced during sleep. When dreams are happening three parts of your brain is working; Limbic region, Sub cortical, and the Associative cortice (Shamsian). B. Dreams can be good or evil and are usually sending a message (Obringer) Evil dreams are usually our fear or our insecurities, the main dreams that try to represent that is being naked, falling, being chased, taking an exam, running, or your teeth falling out (Obringer). The main good dream…

view remains changed by depression. She claims that “to the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream” (237). Relating the bell jar to reality and the world to a dream illustrates a newfound ability to analyze the judgment of a mental illness victim with a level of objectivity. Despite this semblance of self-awareness, Esther cannot relinquish her depressive state as a bad dream to discard; she takes it as a “part of [her]” and sees it as “[her]…

view remains changed by depression. She claims that “to the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream” (237). Relating the bell jar to reality and the world to a dream illustrates a newfound ability to analyze the judgment of a mental illness victim with a level of objectivity. Despite this semblance of self-awareness, Esther cannot relinquish her depressive state as a bad dream to discard; she takes it as a “part of [her]” and sees it as “[her]…

Change Is Not Always Bad As I sat in my room and reminisced over the change that happened in my life, a smile crossed my face. My smile was not because I like change, but it represented me overcoming the fear that gripped me every time change occurred. Many times in life I began to love or hate certain factors that life handed me depending on how I went through my first experience of that situations. Change is one of those factors I hated because when I first encountered it, I was young and…

Twice in a lifetime The definition of singular according to the dictionary is “The grammatical form that refers to only one thing”. So a singular experience should be something that happens once. There are so many things that happen repeatedly but when a unique devastating event happens you only expect it once. But sometimes it doesn’t work like that, sometimes bad things happen twice. It was like any other Monday, October 18th. The wind whistled outside and the colorful leaves covered the…

What’s a stereotype? A stereotype is to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. It’s a bad trait that most human beings have and do every day without even noticing. We tend to “Judge a book by its cover.” But you never know what could be in that book, may it just be a clear white cover with just the authors name, or a colorful active cover, that seems more appealing. It’s all about the material inside, that we wouldn’t know what that material is…

lord of the waters” (pg113). Antonio 's friend Cico shows him the Golden Carp and he begins to believe in its powers and realize that he has felt it before. Cico also tells Antonio that we shall, “sin no more” or else the Golden Carp will come to rule again by sinking the llano. When he sees it for the first time, he had an automatic rush of excitement and awe; he saw God in the Golden Carp. On the other hand, Ultima is thought to be a witch by many people but, Antonio understands that Ultimas…

that it was academic, rehearsed and words of the past. They were like words that had been lost but because of education they were always available. They were words that were in hiding and always peeking around the comer till they had the confidence to come out. Even then they were cautious like a bumblebee that didn’t recognize the flower but once it recognized the sweet smell it had the courage to enjoy it. I guess it is both good and bad in being like that, but I am not sure. The good is that…

A good boyfriend will always be a loving companion. He will get you through the bad and celebrate with you through the good times. By being a loving companion he will show you attention and make you feel like the most important girl in the world. Daniel is my person, he is my loving companion. He tells me on a daily basis how pretty he thinks I am and how lucky he is to have a girl like me. I could not ask for a more caring boyfriend. Being a good loving companion is not a routine but being…

As humans, we make choices every single day from the moment we wake up each morning. Some of these choices do not seem to affect our lives with much significance, such as what we choose to eat for breakfast. On the other hand, some may change our lives forever, like deciding where to attend college. The choices we make lead to the experiences we have. The texts of Antigone, Saint Augustine: Of Choice and Free Will and Into the Wild contain instances of decisions that led to experiences, which…