Dream Theater

resented him more than anyone else because he was the most favored by their father Jacob. His father even had an expensive coat made just for him. The bitterness grew even deeper with each of them after Joseph had told them that God had given him a dream; Joseph’s whole family was to bow down to him. This infuriated his brothers. The first trial in which Joseph’s faith is tested was getting sold into slavery. One day the brothers seemed to snap; they were out in the fields when merchants, who…

Slowly but surely as elaborated in the article, when trying to recall a dream the longer you have been awake the less likely you are to vividly recall the events. It is also mentioned, pieces of the dream that you try to put together during recall is a representation of the thoughts and the reality of the ego. This stage is considered to be a creative process. Another concept this article…

through hell, keep going”(Winston Churchill). Winston Churchill might have said this, but my parents were the ones that taught me to never give up. The indescribable sacrifices my parents have done for me is what makes me seek for greatness. I share my dreams with my parents and by achieving them I will be able to pay them back. One of the foundations required to achieve my goals is to attend the most prestigious MBA program, the Wharton MBA program. With the skillset obtained at the program…

During ‘prescientific days’ dreams were considered a ‘manifestation’ of a ‘higher power’. The introduction of psychology, the scientific study of our mind, rejects and replaces this interpretation with many others. Freud lists 4 distinct interpretations. The first is his own interpretation. His states that dreams are a subconscious manifestation of our desires. He explores and supports this interpretation throughout this paper. The second states that dreams are a form of spiritual liberation…

day with their game faces on. Life demands us to grow and become stronger human beings. But not everyone is same. We people choose our path according to our goals in life. Those paths might be many different according to their interests, beliefs and dreams. Those paths sometimes make us outsiders in society and in our hearts. This world is filled with people yet we find ourselves being lonely. This is my story of transition to a new life from my old life. Clear blue sky, fast-paced city, cars…

making almost every known fact unprovable. This means for every theory about dreaming, it is up to the dreamer to draw their own conclusions. With that being said, it doesn’t mean that we know nothing about dreams, in fact, we study dreams just about every day even without knowing it. You and I dream every night, whisked away to another world where anything is possible. But what if I told you that you make up the rules in that world and can control everything that happens around you. This would…

Yasunari Kawabata’s The White Horse rely heavily on dreams and how they convey or affect how one is feeling by delving into the unconscious mind, much like one does today. Dream interpretation is a widely recognized concept through the world. People have analyzed and interpreted dreams throughout history in many civilizations that had different cultures and religions. It is referenced in traditional Chinese medicine as well. By definition, dreams are the mental activity containing thoughts,…

Inside Out presented Riley’s dream after she entered the REM stage while she was sleeping. It was actually inaccurate at the part where Riley entered to REM stage immediately after she fell asleep since people had to go through the non-REM stages(sleep stages 1-4) before they entered REM stage. However, Inside Out did a good job to show what was happening in Riley’s brain when she was dreaming in her REM stage. For example, there was one section in her brain called “Dream productions”, where…

In the “Notes From the Underground”, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Underground Man suffers from repetition compulsion. Repetition compulsion is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud; it is where the victims of a traumatic experience are unable to progress mentally and compulsively repeat actions to release similar sensations to that of the trauma. (Van Der Kolk,389) There has been limited research done in the field of repetition compulsion over the past 70 years; but it has been noted as an…

Dreams are vivid, strange fantasies that occur in the resting minds. Often most people are so consumed in their dreams that they cannot differentiate if the dream is real or not. People often tell themselves that there is only one reality, but there are many realities. Dreams are proof of this; people can walk, eat, run, and do anything they please in their dream. That makes dreams another reality where people can live. The reality of the world is that it can be barbarous and unpleasant. Dreams…