Animal Dreams

Why do we dream? Why do dreams matter? Why would that psycho skill evolve us? What’s the down fall of not sleeping? Phantasmata and dreams help us process over leftover fear and anxiety. It’s like the garbage disposal of psyche. Dreams are personal. Tragic or traumatic events can cause the person to have nightmares and the person can even have nightmares randomly. Scary but necessary we are churning through what holds us back. For example, it’s just like the movie “A nightmare on Elm Street” the…

something identical with the mind of man. (Frye, Metaphor) As described, there are three levels of the mind; The level of consciousness, the level of practical sense, and the level of imagination. All of which can easily be found in King’s “I Have a Dream” but first we must understand what the levels mean to understand their role in King‘s speech.. The first level of the mind is the level of consciousness or awareness. Frye does an excellent job in describing these levels by using a…

A dream is “a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep”, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. However, many people don’t know that there are diverse dreaming possibilities, or that some people perceive dreams differently than others; also, dreams have a deeply rooted meaning in the subconscious. I chose to write about dreaming because I often experience bizarre and at times sporadic dreams that I wanted to learn more about. Particular people dream in particular…

over: a man with a perceived sense of mental stability but with a realm of repressed desires — all the more reason to explore the unconscious, the uncharted realms of the human psyche. Contrary to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the dreams in Dostoevsky’s novel function as something beyond the characterization of archetypes common to multiple individuals. Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, proves to be more concerned with Raskolnikov’s perceptions regarding his crime,…

Dreams rest in the hearts and minds of children waiting to burst forth. In these formative years, nothing seems unachievable and options lay wide open. And, many of these dreams are birthed and grown in the no limits, safe space of the blanket fort. Forts offer a world where kids explore interests and personalities while discovering what they want their future to look like. Will it be filled with numbers and calculations? Does it involve mixing materials to prove theories? Do visions of…

Have you ever had a dream that you have worked for super hard and in order to pursue that dream you had to stop what you have been doing in the past? You stopped the bad things or at least tried to stop them so that dream could become reality. In John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men, the characters learn that having a dream with someone close to you can give you a message that tells you to stop doing the things you are doing if they are bad. In the novella, our characters George and…

unique abilities such as dream equating. Hall describes Freud’s idea of the id as a “demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, and pleasure-loving [character]”, which “retains its infantile character throughout life” (27). Freud initial findings were very blunt which led to much controversy, but I would agree that this animalistic self would be a present factor in the out core make-up because genetically we are animals and…

resented him more than anyone else because he was the most favored by their father Jacob. His father even had an expensive coat made just for him. The bitterness grew even deeper with each of them after Joseph had told them that God had given him a dream; Joseph’s whole family was to bow down to him. This infuriated his brothers. The first trial in which Joseph’s faith is tested was getting sold into slavery. One day the brothers seemed to snap; they were out in the fields when merchants, who…

Capote presents Perry’s dream as imaginative visions where Perry tries to reach for his desires. For example, Capote vividly describes Perry to explain his recurring dreams to Dick. This is shown when Perry persist to get diamonds, ‘’Diamonds like oranges. That’s why I’m there-to pick myself a bushel of diamonds’’ this implies that Perry is eager to have his way. The use of simile and minor sentence in ‘’Diamonds like Oranges’’ emphasises that Perry prefers materialistic objects such as the…

During waking the frontal cortex is reigning in the limbic system. During dreams, the frontal cortex metabolic rate decreases drastically, and the limbic system goes wild. Rational regulation of your emotional brain goes offline. We have wild escapades, violence, fighting, running. My wife says that I run in my sleep. I also get into fights and one time I actually hit her. That woke her and me up. So dreams are dreamlike because the prefrontal cortex is offline during REM sleep, allowing…