Animal Dreams

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil” stated British philosophical poet James Allen. Since the dawn of time humanity has sought to find order in the world, to find means by which one could determine the future. In this endeavor many across time and culture have pointed their discerning minds to dreams. Dreams have been believed to hold the secret to future…

why sleep brings dreams. Some say that they are simulations - a means originally produced by the brain to help humans prepare for particular events they have yet to encounter in reality. Others say it is to de-stress the mind, to unravel the complicated webs of data collected through our senses throughout the day. Regardless of the specifics, I have always been a dreamer, and a vivid one at that. It's no surprise, then, that I one embarked on a journey to take control of my dreams: to learn the…

Dreams are one of the most remarkable psychological and neurological phenomena experienced by the sleeping mind, yet still remains one of the most unclear scientific inquiries. During the stages of sleep the brain involuntarily constructs a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations, parallel to brain activity in several regions of the brain that control our cognitive processes. Because these parts of the brain are constantly being stimulated, there is reason to believe that dreaming has…

is his theory on dreams and his sex theory. Though the majority of his theories intertwine with each other, these are the two that stuck out most to me. Freud started studying the realm of dreams in the late 1800’s and later came out with a book called The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. In this book, he goes into detail how to understand the meaning of the dream that the unconscious dreamer dreams about. Freud’s most famous phrase from this book is “The interpretation of dreams in the royal…

My Dream: I was around 20 years old and living in New York City, just coming back from work. I don’t remember precisely what I did as a job, but I saw myself walking out of the hospital and coming back home to a tiny apartment in the middle of the city. The scene shifted to the next morning when I was traveling to Atlanta to see my family, but I found out that my sister had…

analyse texts, as Freud argues that the main argument to this theory is that texts such as dreams present unconscious desires of the author. Ursula K. Le. Guin is best known “for inventing fantasy worlds and uncommon experiences in such a way that readers can see themselves in the stories’ reflections,” as X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia pointed out. Le. Guin demonstrates this in “The Wife’s Story,” by arguing that animals are the human subconscious. Freud proves it with his theory because the reader…

For many, true self-discovery takes a lifetime to achieve. In Barbara Kingsolver's novel, Animal Dreams, main character Codi Noline locates the individual masked beneath her various facades. Through flashbacks and narration shifts, the story of a bright and rebellious girl's exodus and eventual return to her constrictive hometown, where she copes with the deaths of her controlling, intransigent and disdainful father and adored sister Hallie. At first, Codi is unable to prescribe a personality or…

Forrester. Knowing that the necklace was all paid off, she saw no harm in telling Mrs. Forrester what had happened. With much surprise, Mrs. Forrester laughed and said that her necklace was only costume jewelry. This means that Mathilde gave up everything she had in order to pay off something that never existed. It was an allusion just like the entire life would be. The author themes this story very well, he told about a woman who wanted what she could never have, never realizing that what she…

When it comes to dream interpretation the first to come to mind is usually the well-known Mr. Sigmund Freud. Freud created that stepping stone regarding the hidden meaning of dreams. A supporter of his for some time, Carl Jung used the fundamentals presented by Freud to create his own psychological theory of the unconscious. He used the same structured concept of Freud’s unconscious principle but named it the personal unconscious. One of his novel ideas however, was the collective unconscious…

First, Santiago’s fear of failing to achieve his dream in the future causes him to be more reluctant in proceeding with his journey. During the journey Santiago’s heart “began to speak of fear. It told him stories it had heard from the Soul of the World, stories of men who sought to find their treasure and never succeeded. Sometimes it frightened the boy with the idea that he might not find his treasure” (Coelho 144). The fear of not being successful in a journey, backed up by stories of…