Darkly Dreaming Dexter

long lucid dreaming has been around, the first known texts of lucid dreaming date back to 1000BCE. They were found in the Upanishads, which is a collection of texts that come from Hindu and Buddhist philosophies. Lucid dreaming got its name back in 1911 from Frederick van Eeden, a Dutch psychologist. However lucid dreaming wasn’t recognized by science until 1978, yet it’s been talked about for a very long time in various religions. (Hurd, History of Lucid Dreaming) Lucid dreaming almost…

If you do a quick search on Google for Dreams, you will get over 7 million results including the definition of dreams which is “successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep” (“Dream” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 January 2016). That definition sounds so scientific in comparison to the dreams I’ve had and while it is accurate in the science of dreams, I am certain that when you dream it feels like more…

idea of his current state of being. Moore actually uses part of Descartes’ argument in order to form his own argument: “I agree, therefore, with that part of this argument which asserts that if I don’t know now that I’m not dreaming, it follows that I don’t know that I’m not dreaming, it follows that I don’t know that I am standing up, even if I both actually am and think that I am” (Moore, pg 30). His argument takes the idea of certainty when using what he does know from the clues that his…

He wakes up shaken, soaked with sweat, and gasping for breath. Raskolnikov recalls the dreadful way the mare was murdered and he says aloud to himself that of course his plan was just a fantastical one and he reassures himself that “yesterday I realised completely that I could never bear to do it” (62). He exclaims, “...I couldn't do it!”, but his belief in his inability to complete the plan wavers when he then says in the same breath, “there is no flaw in all that reasoning…” (62). The flip…

As Canadians, we value many things; one being our land. It is clear how much we cherish this from the line in our anthem, “God keep our land glorious and free”. Therefore, artists like Archibald Lampman and Marjorie Pickthall have written about our beautiful land. Both Pickthall poems “Dream River” and “The Pool” as well as Lampman’s “Morning on the Lièvres” do a wonderful job of describing nature. They constantly refer to gemstones or metals to describe nature’s aspects, thus giving the reader…

41.36% of the participants stated that they liked dreaming, and that they viewed dreams as recreational and diverting, 53.76% of the sample stated that dreams are nonsense and that they pay no attention to them, and 18.23% of the sample checked both items (Schredl, 2013, p. 3). Gender and socioeconomic status also seemed to pay a role in dreaming. Gender differences with women reporting more positive attitudes toward dreams; women: 45.73% vs. men:…

The first day of class my only thought was "How on earth am I going to write this paper?" And I struggled with it. I spent hours upon hours mulling ideas and options over, both in my mind and on paper. I found that the harder I thought about it, the more difficult it became to write. So I stopped thinking. I let my mind wander, and wrote as the ideas popped into my mind. Admittedly, the ideas didn 't start coming until about three weeks before the due date, but when they started coming they didn…

This week’s myth was on research showing that dreams have symbolic meaning. This psychological belief goes all the way back to Freud, who stated that dream interpretation was not universal, even though he treated it like it was. I was most surprised to learn that this belief actually stems from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. I knew it wasn’t a new belief, but I did not know that belief was over a hundred years old. This myth has persisted because we believe in a subconscious self, and we…

Ever since I can remember, I have always had very vivid dreams. Most of the time my dreams do not make any sense and at other times they can be emotionally unsettling, cryptic or even exhilarating. At the young age of about five or six years old, I can remember having a dream that I was a superhero with a cape. I wasn’t doing anything heroic nor did I have on a special costume – I was merely flying around over my neighborhood and remember feeling content. A few years ago while I was pregnant…

ate the big meat in his dream. Knowing that he was not allowed to eat, he dared not to eat publicly and to put in an appearance. From the boy’s dream, we can tell his experience influences his dream, and his hunger forces him to seek redress from dreaming. On the other hand, the dream totally reflects his real…