DREAM Act

In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the main character, Willy Loman is an elderly man. He has come to a fork in the road of struggling with everyday life in modern America, in the late 1940’s. As constantly newer appliances and cars are being manufactured, Willy Loman is progressively tries to obtain the latest models for his family. As he slowly starts to lose his mind in this materialistic world, it becomes clear that the only thing he is really concerned about is keeping up with the…

In “On Dreams”, Freud (1901) lays out many of his thoughts of the fundamentals about dreams and their interpretation through the interpretation of his own dream which occurred on July 23-24th, 1895. In this case study, the fundamental concepts of dream interpretation will be outlined beginning with an analysis of the difference between manifest and latent content of dreams. Also included will be a discussion of of condensation and displacement as forms of distorting dreams and the related…

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 than a…

Dale M. Kushner’s Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung’s “Active Imagination” takes on C.G. Jung’s ideas about the latent content of dreams to develop the thesis that states, what is hidden from our minds in the day-world becomes manifest in living color in our dreams (Para. 1). Reading Kushner’s thesis confirmed my ideas about what the underlying meaning of our dreams really are. According to Jung, “Our darkest dreams might contain imagery that illustrate our internal conflicts and…

famously, Freud is accredited with his work published in 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams on dream analysis. Next, there was Carl Jung, who proposed another perspective giving people insight to the meaning of dreams. After years of research, psychologists have made significant progress in understanding why people dream, its function, and to some extent a more valid theory of what dreams mean. Freud “proposed that dreams provide a psychic safety valve that discharges otherwise unacceptable…

nature of his patient's dreams. He used the term 'dream-work' to describe the ways in which dreams materialize from the unconscious and argued that dreams reflect desires (primarily sexual) which are supressed by the superego in order for the ego to develop as a social individual. There are instances however, when desires often escape from the unconscious and are revealed through slips of the tongue or within dreams themselves. The content of a dream is produced by 'dream-thoughts' and…

The Alchemist: Dreams Dreams are the theme that ties together the whole significance of omens and Personal Legends in The Alchemist. Santiago, the main character, is a boy shepherd who is constantly questioning himself as to what his purpose in life is and how he can fulfill it. Throughout the book, he learns that dreams are indications of his own Personal Legend, or inner desire. The author’s message about dreams is that it takes much diligence and desire to fulfill them but it is all very…

Lucid Dream Have you ever been aware of that you are dreaming when you are in dream? Maybe you do, but you don’t know the concept of lucid dreaming. A lucid dream is a vivid dream and people are aware of that they are in dream with waking consciousness. You can take control of yourself and surroundings. Lucid dreamers can train themselves to know that they are dreaming. With improved skills, they can even create what they want and they are like “God” in their dream. “The dream state can be…

Dreams are personal and different for everyone, just like how each and every one of you is not exactly the same as anyone else in the world. With this in mind, psychologists have tried to come up with theories to try and figure out the meaning of dreams to individuals and interpret symbols seen in dreams in order to understand the mind. This process is called dream interpretation and this is a relatively new concept. In the book called “Private Myths” by Anthony Stevens, it says that experts and…

parents strived to achieve the American dream; they worked long, irregular hours resulting in many missed birthdays and holidays. However, even from the young age of five, as an innocent kindergarten, I understood that they were working to provide me the life that they- nor my older siblings- had. Through their perseverance and determination, I have learned that my dreams are never too big. As time went on- and the more I understood that concept- the bigger my dreams became: from an artist, to a…