In Between Dreams

“Dreaming is the communication between our conscious mind and our unconscious mind, helping people create wholeness” (Tartakovsky). Our dreams are unconscious thoughts that contain much more than just abstract, meaningless images. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, or stage two in the sleep cycle, is when most dreaming occurs (Lewis xvii). REM sleep can occur up to five times per night, though this sleep is affected by drugs, alcohol, and caffeine. This sleep is necessary to the sleep cycle and…

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost which in turn destroys the vision and the dream." ~ Azar Nafisi Dreams are something that an individual must work towards in order to fulfil. However, an urgency to fulfill the dream will lead to a change in attitude and the decisions you make. In the novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck chooses to express the impact of dreams and the need for untouched happiness. Lennie 's dream of tending rabbits on his…

asked themselves throughout their existence is why do dreams happen and do they mean anything? The Mesopotamians believed that dreams were messages from the gods about the future, and the Egyptians believed the same. Aristotle, a famous Greek philosopher, thought that dreams are the purest form of wisdom, and that they can be used to predict the future. Another Greek philosopher named Hippocrates was one of the first people to believe that dreams indicated a person’s mental and physical health.…

and continues until we go back to sleep again or die or otherwise become unconscious. In this definition, dreams is a form of consciousness, because it makes the mind active, and an unconscious mind is considered…

In Susan Krauss Whitbourne’s article, “3 Ways to Have Better Dreams”,published on September 30, 2017 Whitbourne explores how it is possible to not only remember your dreams but also be able to manipulate them with “lucid dreaming”. She establishes that lucid dreaming can be connected with sleeping better and increased creativity. Consequently, she claims that lucid dreaming can be utilized to, “reduce nightmares, improve physical abilities, solve problems more creatively, and understand the…

Dreaming for Better In The Outsiders there is so much anger and hate. There is the anger Dally has at the world. The anger Bob has at his parent’s for not giving him any rules. And most prevalent, the animosity between the Socs and the greasers. One person is trapped between these two gangs and that person is Cherry Valance. Like any teenager, she feels the pull of wanting to be socially accepted by the group she was originally in, the Socs. But yet she feels that the way the greasers are…

Dreams are the agglomeration of the fleeting flight of hidden hopes and horrors that a person experiences. Therefore, dreams are the looking glass with which we can glimpse a person’s inner character and the reason why they act as they do. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, the author emphasizes how dreams mirror reality by accentuating within the characters their subconscious guilt and fears, by providing insight into the hidden underscoring concept of the character during their…

He says, that the experiences we have in our dreams are often really similar to those which we have in our waking life. Dreams make us feel that we are doing things in waking life but during our dreams we usually do not realize that what we are experiencing is just a dream. He claims that we can not tell for certain the difference between our waking life and dreaming experiences does not matter how many and how convincing differences we can…

long time in various religions. (Hurd, History of Lucid Dreaming) Lucid dreaming almost seems to be a reoccurring fad in western culture; today pretty much every household knows the term lucid dreaming, in fact, Mark Balgrove, a psychologist and dream researcher believes the number of people who have the…

have argued whether or not dreams have a true purpose when it comes to humans. In chapter four of, “The Storytelling Animal,” Jonathan Gottschall argues that indeed dreams do have a true function. However, he also claims that “a function for dreams or pretend play or fiction doesn’t mean that we’ve identified the function.” (Page 86). I agree with Gottshchall pertaining to his outlook on dreams having a purpose. Through his varied research, Gottschall concludes that dreams are simply a scape…