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    The Importance Of Fear In Santiago's Journey

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    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…

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    Analysis Of Robert Wuthnow's American Dream

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    (502). Throughout Wuthnow?s essay, he states that Americans are complaining about working too much and not having enough time to relax; for those reasons, I believe that spare time is a crucial part of my American Dream. Most people who spend a majority of their day working are not truly happy; they wish they had just a little more time to relax and be with their spouses and children. It seems as if now more than ever we have less time to relax: ?Despite the fact that leisure time is less…

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    wearing shirts and sweaters from the bookstore. It was dark outside even though the sun should have been out since I was going to class and doing things that I would normally always do during the day. There were lots of different characters in my dream, most of them were in my class. I do not remember what subject the class was about but I remember it was taking place in an auditorium type of room. My classmates in my all sounded similarly and their faces where unrecognizable, I could not…

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    Essay On Why Do We Dream

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    Why Do We Dream? Every night, dreams flow through the human mind. Dreams of fast paced adventure, dreams of vivid fantasies, and even dreams of a dark, creepy fears. Scientists yearn to know more about this phenomenon, something that humans have been doing since their very existence. Although people don’t know exactly why we dream, some people think it’s for religious reasons, while others think that it’s for scientific purposes. There are a few theories behind dreaming. One theory explains…

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    Dreams are a very controversial subject in psychology. Psychologists have not come to agreement on what dreams may signify, mean, or what their purpose might be, however, they do have several theories. The three most popular dream theories are psychoanalytic, activation-synthesis, and information processing (White, 2017). Each theory is unique and offers different ways of looking at the way the brain works. Sigmund Freud wrote the book The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and created the…

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    In Susan Krauss Whitbourne’s article, “3 Ways to Have Better Dreams”,published on September 30, 2017 Whitbourne explores how it is possible to not only remember your dreams but also be able to manipulate them with “lucid dreaming”. She establishes that lucid dreaming can be connected with sleeping better and increased creativity. Consequently, she claims that lucid dreaming can be utilized to, “reduce nightmares, improve physical abilities, solve problems more creatively, and understand the…

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    A Dream Essay

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    What is a dream? The scientific definition of a dream is when there is a very small amount of brain activity and there is no sense of self-awareness. Most dreaming occurs in the REM (rapid eye movement) stage. This is the stage during which accelerated respiration and heart rate, muscle relaxation, and increased brain activity occurs. This stage is also called paradoxical sleep. During a dream, the dreamer experiences an incredibly lifelike ordeal, and the shutting down of the self-awareness…

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    Freud was a firm believer that dreams revealed much more about the dreamer than he or she may think. He thought that dreams were a way that a person could explore their unconscious desires and feelings, meaning that dreams let a person become aware of things that he or she was not previously aware of. Freud also believed that dreams consisted of manifest content, the literal content of a dream that a person has had, as well as latent content, which is what the dream represents to the dreamer. …

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    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…

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    Lucid Dreaming

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    1.1 INTRODUCTION OF RESEARCH Lucid dreaming is an uncommon treatment and practices a sleep realisation recognition where you would able to alter/control/observe within your will inside dreams that you are experiencing .This practise considered unorthodox and out of our social norms because it is likely unusual to the world. Person who can’t overcome their mental illness such as fear of public speaking might benefit from this practices.On the other hand ,It also helps to improve our memory using…

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