A Dream

Hopes and dreams are what America is made of, known as the American dream, in The Great Gastby, Fitzgerald relates the American dream to a green light shown here in his statement, “Gastby believed in the green light, of the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… and one fine morning--” (Fitzgerald 193) Fitzgerald leaving the sentence unfinished, Nicks believes of one fine morning,…

When someone hears the word dream, what words come to their mind? It might be a hope, a trance, or even a wonder. I think of the word ambition. A dream to me is something that I look forward to and it keeps me moving forward to achieve a major goal in my life. Dreams are different in each perspective, but some try to crush others’ dreams. Some think their dreams are more valuable than others. However, who’s to say someone’s dreams are worthless? No one should, but unfortunately that is not the…

What is your dream? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, Winter Dreams, he introduces us to a man named Dexter who has the dream to become a golf champion. Early in the story on page 34, paragraph 3, the author says “He became a golf champion and defeated Mr. T. A. Hedrick in a marvelous match played a hundred times over the fairways of his imagination” But that was not his only dream, he always strived to be wealthier and have more power. Dexter’s dreams were not as achievable as has he…

The author of this journal article starts off by introducing the idea of motor practicing in lucid dreams. Motor practice in lucid dreams is a form of mental rehearsal where the dreamer can consciously rehearse motor skills in the dream state while being physically asleep. The article then mentions a previous pilot study that showed that practicing a certain skill in a lucid dream can improve subsequent performance. That previous study was quite outdated so based off the same idea of that…

Dreams; we all have them, whether they are dreams that arise in your sleep or dreams that will determine what and who you become in a future time. According to Henry David Thoreau, "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." When first pondering upon this statement, it is difficult to decipher which "dreams" Thoreau is describing. If this quote were to be broken apart into individual words, "dreams" would refer to our desires and our hopes. What is meant by touchstones in this case is certain…

analysis of dreams and the dream-work, Freud theorized that there were two distinct kinds of content in relation to dreams. The first kind of dream content is manifest content and refers to the material experienced in the surface of the dream. Manifest content includes all of the elements of images, thoughts, and content in the dream that is retained in an individual’s memory upon awakening. The second kind of dream content is latent dream-thoughts and refers to the relevant material of the…

However, no one can disagree to the mysteriousness of dreams. II. Topic Clarification: To the end of exploring this mystery, and hopefully clarifying it, we can at least look to patterns in dreams. More specifically, we can look to the particular types of dreams that we can distinguish. III. Roadmap: In this speech, I will describe three of them. I will take you through the nightmare, the recurring dream, and, finally, the lucid dream. body I. Main Point: First looking at nightmares, we…

about what a dream means is something every human being has done at least once. Also, we have wondered about the content of our dreams, and why they are always related to the things we have around us. There are several theories that could help us to answer these questions. These questions have been around for many years, so there are biological and psychological theories that could explain them. People had been wondering about what a dream means for ages. In fact, in 3000-3500 B.C. dream…

nature of his patient's dreams. He used the term 'dream-work' to describe the ways in which dreams materialize from the unconscious and argued that dreams reflect desires (primarily sexual) which are supressed by the superego in order for the ego to develop as a social individual. There are instances however, when desires often escape from the unconscious and are revealed through slips of the tongue or within dreams themselves. The content of a dream is produced by 'dream-thoughts' and…

mind: the formation of dreams. From ancient cultures across the world to modern psychologists, humans have always wondered about the origin of dreams. However a more recent development in the study of dreams has been the question of why dreams occur, rather than how they 're formed. The two major theories involving dreams are the psychodynamic theory and the activation-synthesis model of dreaming. Psychologists from the psychodynamic perspective believe in psychodynamic dream theory as…