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    more than likely when you wake up you 'll forget it. Sometimes people have a type of dream that are known as Lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming is when you are aware of your dream and have the ability to control it. Only 20% of people will have this type of dream regularly and the other 80% would be lucky to even have 1 lucid dream in their lifetime. Knowing you are dreaming and being able to control it to do whatever you what is just so amazing, and Phenomenal. 1) Lucid dream A.Tibetan…

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    Lucid dreaming is the idea of being consciously aware or the realization of dreaming while in the state of dreaming. To explain lucid dreaming, we first need to examine its basis and the evidence for it. The main components of lucid dreaming are experiencing something unusual or new, analyzing or reflecting it, and concluding that you are dreaming as a result. Comparing lucid dreaming to a regular dream, in a regular dream you don’t question things that are unusual or new. Most people seem to go…

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    One might argue that Raskolnikov’s actions have been dictated by chance because of two reasons. The first reason is somehow by chance he was at the right spot at the right time and overheard that the pawn lady’s sister, Lizaveta Ivanovna will not be home around seven o’ clock the next day. It was just yesterday when he went to pawn lady’s house to mask out the last details and now he knows when she will be alone in the house. Raskolnikov realizes that this is the only chance that he has and if…

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    Deceitful Dreams According to the Oxford Dictionary, a dream is, "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal; An unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy." Dreams are different from one another and come in many shapes and sizes, but all dreams are purely a desire and are imaginative. In society, dreams play a large role in how people live their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The…

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    In Kendra Cherry’s article titled Dream Interpretation: What Do Dreams Mean she explores the varying theories behind what meanings dreams could possibly have and their interpretation according to experts in the field of psychology and cognitive studies. Cherry being a psychologist, supports the theory that it is likely dreams have a subconscious meaning. Many people share the belief their dreams have some sort of unknown meaning or an underlying message while others are skeptical. Some claim…

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    Importance Of Dream

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    success is to dream a great dream” .Good day to everyone. I am Angelo Taypen. For today’s talk I would like to give you an inspirational speech about dream. I have never heard of anyone dreaming of failure or aspiring to be unsuccessful, maybe to other person but not to themselves. Failure does not plan any part in dreaming. It is the person that instills failure, not the dream. We know a lot of person like businessman, celebrities, athletes, or scientists that failed numerous times before they…

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    Any time a person is dreaming and she or he understands their dreaming it's called a lucid dream. When a strange dream makes a person stop and question reality is when it typically occurs. Lucid dreaming has an interesting aspect to it, and it's the ability to regulate the dream and make some other reality in the dream state, which is the reason why lots of people learn the fundamental lucid dreaming steps. A lot of cultures from ancient times took lucid dreaming very seriously. For instance,…

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    the dream experience. Visitation Theory Some cultures believe that dreams represent spiritual visitations to a stationary dreamer. This explains dream images as coming from somewhere else or someone else. They do not think it is themselves who is dreaming rather other spirits coming to visit them (Barret 43). In this theory the identity of the people seen in dreams are the focus, as well as, the sense of oneself as a passive recipient of the dream rather than an active agent (Barret…

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    total conscious control. In his words, it’s “a chance to play around with the extraordinary abilities” of your imagination (Brogaard 2012). B. For many, the experience is often therapeutic, spiritual, or simply fun. C. Brogaard writes that lucid dreaming often takes extensive practice to accomplish, requiring enough sleep time, preparation, and being in the right mindset (Brogaard 2012). D. But for many, the preparation is worth the opportunity to not only experience dreams’ mystery, but to be a…

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    In this book Australian “dream teacher”, Robert Moss, described what the difference is on how people see dreams, that “in modern Western societies, we think of dreams as sleep experiences. But for many other cultures, dreaming is fundamentally about waking up” (xii). Waking up. That certainly wasn’t the outlook on dreams that I was taught as a child, I mused. So I decided to Dig a little deeper I learned that dreams have been seen for many thousands of years as they way…

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