Dream journal

What are dreams? Dreams are a series of thoughts you have and pictures you see when you are asleep. You can’t control a dream and 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…

interested me for as long as I can remember. What do they mean and where do they come from? I was always fascinated by these movies that played in our heads while we are sleeping and wondered how people with physical and mental disorders dream, and if they dream differently. Are there any pattern variations from the people without disabilities, and how does this affect the presentation of the symbols? My specific topic focuses on the symbols present while dreaming and questions the patterns…

something you can do in your sleep. It involves a phenomenon known as lucid dreaming. It takes some training but lucid dreaming is being consciously aware that you’re dreaming and you become conscious that you are dreaming you can start to control your dreams and the direction they go in. It has become more and more popular over the last couple of years due to its exposer in the media. What isn’t said about lucid dreaming is the fact that it can help you in life. When people talk about lucid…

Dreams are defined by a series of ‘mental and emotional processes that occur during sleep, including thoughts, imagery, and problem-solving.’ (Osman, 2015) They often have a temporal progression with an accompanying narrative. Dream research focuses on the implications of dreams, both psychological and physiological, and how these implications relate to conscious and unconscious processes. Assuming a dualist approach to the mind-body debate, dream research attempts to connect material and mental…

Dreaming and Writing INTRODUCTION Throughout history, the dream has been seen as a wellspring of inspiration for creative practitioners, including writers. In Writers Dreaming (1994) Naomi Epel interviews 26 prominent writers on the relationship between dreaming and creativity. Writers, including Clive Barker and Stephen King, are asked to interrogate their personal writing processes, and account for how they have turned their dreams into works of art. Stephen King, for example, shares a…

Dreams are eccentric to interpret and question. To people, dreams offer a chance to wonder about the subconscious part inhabiting in our minds. With that, dreams are also great supplemental material as an interesting story to tell one another or to just utilize as a filler for a conversation. However, people have always wondered for ages what exactly their dreams truly meant. Could dreams prophesize one’s future– or perhaps society’s? Or, could these dreams provide a simple visionary example of…

Imagine being transported to a place where you can get rid of all of your fears and live out your hopes and dreams. Although this may seem absurd, there is a way to have access to this place. People say that miracles don’t happen overnight, but these people are genuinely mistaken. Lucid dreaming offers us a chance to play out our aspirations, overcome fears, practice and improve real life skills, and even discover a personal meaning to life. Lucid Dreaming comes from the Greek word for "clear",…

Meditations I is written by Descartes. Descartes is a Greek philosopher who wrote Meditations I in 1639. Meditations I is part of a set of six Meditations and the full title of Meditations is actually Indiscernibility Skepticism Meditations on First Philosophy. During the time that Descartes was alive Galileo discovered that Earth was not the center of the universe, and in fact Earth actually rotated around the sun, not the other way around. This made everyone question their former beliefs,…

Dreams have always been a curiosity. How they seem to reflect reality at times but bring us to other worlds at other times is confounding to us. Over the years there have been many theories about dreams and even more questions. What are dreams? How are they formed? How does dreaming affect us? Do our dreams have meaning? Does reality, stress, and trauma factor into our dreams? The answers to these are complicated and still mostly undiscovered, but this essay will cover some of what has been…

Out of all the theories we’ve covered through the course of the semester. Person-centered therapy has managed to capture my attention the most, and here’s why. Trust is something that’s automatically given to the client who is seen as the sole contributor of being able to solve his or her own problems without the assistance of direct intervention. Now, when I first heard of this therapy I immediately thought. “So, what exactly does the therapist do again?” It turns out that the therapist’s job…