In Between Dreams

A dream can be defined in countless ways, as, in most cases; the meaning varies with each different person. To one a dream is a destination, to others a journey. However, no matter what the specified description, a dream always has the foundational definition of being a goal that one wants or feels they must attain. In the novel the time keeper, written by Mitch Albom, the underlying message of dreams is very strong within each character and the plot as a whole. Three characters make their…

they are ethereal because they can come and go they become sheer pigments of our dream and imagination. While objects that we see are perfect exact 100 percent replica of a real person; hence why McGinn said that images of dematerialized body in other words has no physicality. In other words, McGinn is saying you see his body, but you are not really seeing his body; they are real, but not real at the same time. Unlike dream, films can make a body “perfect” due to the fact that it cannot…

routes. Alchemy was the forerunner to what we now know as modern chemistry. Nicholas Flamel is said to have be visited by an angel in a dream, translated the book of Abraham the Jew, and been able to transform lead into gold. Dreams are sometimes called the gateway to the soul for good reason. Flamel was asleep one night when an angel appeared to him in his dream. Like Santiago,…

Millhauser already introduces us to a dream-like story, to a tale from the very beginning since the title is Flying Carpet. The reference is taken up on Aladdin's tale where the character rides a so-called flying carpet. However, Millhauser transforms this element of wonder into something that will later bring the character's resignation. The oxymoron "Flying carpet" is interesting considering that "flying" corresponds to the air and therefore to dream and wonder whereas "carpet" embodies the…

consciousness, but particularly, the state of our consciousness within dreams. We lose our consciousness as we enter to relax our brain and thus enter a deep sleep. However, what if we could be aware when we are unconscious? That is what lucid dreaming is. Lucid dreaming is a dream in which the dreamer is consciously aware that they are dreaming to which they may be able to have the ability to control certain aspects of the dream itself. This rare phenomenon may take place only a few times in…

This short story has four main themes that are the contrast between a human beings hopes for life and its actuality. These themes are conveyed through the deflating disparity between Mitty’s heroic ability and in his five daydreams. In this short story Walter seems to be an excessive daydreamer. I think that he daydreams because he is so stressed out by his controlling wife. He uses his imagination to escape reality and express his emotions of anger and self-pity. Throughout the story, Walter…

is his theory on dreams and his sex theory. Though the majority of his theories intertwine with each other, these are the two that stuck out most to me. Freud started studying the realm of dreams in the late 1800’s and later came out with a book called The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. In this book, he goes into detail how to understand the meaning of the dream that the unconscious dreamer dreams about. Freud’s most famous phrase from this book is “The interpretation of dreams in the royal…

understand and describe dreams. They have tested many theories and hypotheses to answer the many questions that surround dreams. Strauch and Meier describe dreams as “…a world of experiences, where, seemingly separated from our waking lives, we lead a second existence” (1). That being said, how is the brain able to remember these other lives lived in a dream-like state? The brain is a complex set of nerves, so many factors play a part in why one would or would not remember a dream. One factor…

Controlling dreams is very intriguing phenomenon. In the book Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz and Ron Bass readers can experience what it is like to be able to control dreams. Gangsters in the time of prohibition were very ruthless and dirty, which is clear to see in the book The Untouchables by Eliot Ness. These two books have many differences, but they both have objects that deeply connect to the plots. In this journal, the argument is why alcohol, animals, and the girl’s beds are the most important…

subconscious stands in between the conscious and unconscious thoughts. Freud suggested that we could “access the subconscious with a little effort”. This was a great contribution of Freud, since he developed the therapeutic technique upon that. He also proposed that some thoughts happened “below the surface” such as dreams [1]. As Freud himself said, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”[3] According to him, dreams were the…