Australian Dream

But according to decades of research, dreams usually centre around fairly realistic portrayals of familiar things: people, places and activities. Literally: snoresville. If this seems disappointingly banal you only have yourself to blame, since many aspects of dream content are thought to be reflections of your emotional slate in regular, awake life. Whatever you care most about during non-sleepy times is likely to appear with special frequency in your dreams. So if that really is a large,…

In the article, “Aggression in Nightmares and Unpleasant Dreams and in People Reporting Recurrent Nightmares”, the authors, Patrick McNamara, April Minsky, Victoria Pae, Erica Harris, Edward Pace-Schott, and Sanford Auerbach, talked about a study preformed in order to test the hypothesis that aggression levels would vary significantly with content of nightmares and unpleasant dreams. They used unique data sets from Dream Board and Survey Monkey, asking participants to report reoccurring…

swear that I've dreamed about you. There's one I remember better than all the others; we were at a football game, the stadium lights bright and shining behind us. I didn't know you then, but for some reason, maybe fate, you were still there. That dream left me with a feeling I can't describe, the same feeling you give me now. I hid it close to my heart, away from everything else, but I can hold it no more. This may come as a shock, but you are the one I've loved all these past years. You make me…

When people are asked what their dreams are they often reply with a seemingly unattainable wish or fantasy. Many of people’s dreams consists of sustaining an enormous amount of wealth or fame through distinguished occupations or even some sort of luck. However for Brenda Liz Cruz, her dreams seem more like a reality than a fantasy. Her dreams consists of a comfortable retirement and being able to see her family grow. Why is it that Brenda’s dreams are more realistic than others? It may be due to…

An author, C. Elizabeth once said, “Real is not dreams. Dreams are not real. Unless you can find the fine line...and erase it.” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Shakespeare, the fine line between reality and dreams is truly tested. In the first four acts, dreams influence one’s mind and imagination takes over the characters’ minds. From fairies to unimaginable love interests, it is obvious that one is not in reality. In Act 5 Scene 1, however, everything returns to the norm and reality returns.…

sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other. – CG Jung Community-Based Dreaming is a curriculum that has been in development for some years to offer experiential dream circles within a community setting. It blends depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, fairytale theory, and community building as part of a wider mission to infuse modern culture with imagination. Stromsted (2015) noted for thousands of years, early traditional people saw dreams as oracles…

Sleep and Dreams Analysis In this log that I kept for my sleeping habits I noticed a little constant routine in my sleep.I would go to bed every night at around 10:15pm and I would wake up at around 5:20am, basically I get around 8-9 hrs of sleep counting the naps. Although I noticed something quite funny, during the past week I had a dream every other night. I think I’m getting enough sleep because I get all the hours of sleep needed. For example I go bed at 10pm and I wake up at 5am and…

The dream I will be interpreting is one I had a while ago, but never understood due to it being so random and strange. Granted I had this dream when I was in middle school, so when names such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or Braydon (my middle school crush) come up, that is why. The dream starts out and I am standing in a hotel lobby. The lobby is huge. Big enough to have a concert in, which is exactly what was happening. Taylor Swift was performing and a small crowd of about 300 people were…

Dreams are the one thing in the world that everyone has in common. No matter where one is from, he or she has undoubtedly dreamt while sleeping. What separates these unconscious encounters is how each individual interprets them. In Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, he claims that dreams act as wish fulfilment. While many may agree, the argument backing up this point of view is quite unreliable. Freud’s take on why people dream cannot be taken as fact because not all dreams are…

Dreams have been the topic of discussion for hundreds of years, yet the answer for why we dream and what they mean has yet to be answered. Dreams are a series of vivid images that occur during the REM stage of sleep. Many scientists have tried to explain the meaning of dreams with theories. Per Sigmund Fraud, our dreams are a way of playing out our wishes that we might not think of consciously. This theory is made up of two parts manifest content, which is the actual dream itself and how it is…