In Between Dreams

When someone hears the word dream, what words come to their mind? It might be a hope, a trance, or even a wonder. I think of the word ambition. A dream to me is something that I look forward to and it keeps me moving forward to achieve a major goal in my life. Dreams are different in each perspective, but some try to crush others’ dreams. Some think their dreams are more valuable than others. However, who’s to say someone’s dreams are worthless? No one should, but unfortunately that is not the…

In the article, “Aggression in Nightmares and Unpleasant Dreams and in People Reporting Recurrent Nightmares”, the authors, Patrick McNamara, April Minsky, Victoria Pae, Erica Harris, Edward Pace-Schott, and Sanford Auerbach, talked about a study preformed in order to test the hypothesis that aggression levels would vary significantly with content of nightmares and unpleasant dreams. They used unique data sets from Dream Board and Survey Monkey, asking participants to report reoccurring…

over: a man with a perceived sense of mental stability but with a realm of repressed desires — all the more reason to explore the unconscious, the uncharted realms of the human psyche. Contrary to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the dreams in Dostoevsky’s novel function as something beyond the characterization of archetypes common to multiple individuals. Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, proves to be more concerned with Raskolnikov’s perceptions regarding his crime,…

Sun Walter Lee and Beneatha both have great dreams but encounter at least one barrier to their success. In both cases, Walter Lee himself is the barrier that stands between Beneatha's dream and Walter’s dream. Beneatha also finds a barrier in her race and gender. Walter Lee dreams of having a lot of money and becoming a successful business man while Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor, yet they both find that in their attempts of reaching their dreams that Walter Lee is a barrier because he…

The dream I will be interpreting is one I had a while ago, but never understood due to it being so random and strange. Granted I had this dream when I was in middle school, so when names such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or Braydon (my middle school crush) come up, that is why. The dream starts out and I am standing in a hotel lobby. The lobby is huge. Big enough to have a concert in, which is exactly what was happening. Taylor Swift was performing and a small crowd of about 300 people were…

than likely found ourselves wondering about the meaning of our dreams. Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years, and have been subjected to empirical research and scientific studies. Scientists have been performing sleep and dream studies for decades now. Dreams can be extremely vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or scary imagery; focused and understandable or unclear and rather confusing (Cherry). Dreams are so fascinating because of the level of their…

components of lucid dreaming, two of them, dream content control and purposeful waking, showed an increased amount in the patients that underwent imagery rehearsal therapy than those who did not. This study adds to the understanding of human behavior and mental processes as it shows how individuals (without imagery rehearsal therapy) that suffer from PTSD and recurrent nightmare are more aware of their dreams, yet have low control over the content of the dreams. This is a symptom of PTSD as…

Theme: Honor the Dream; Walk with Courage, Dignity and Hope A dream is a series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. Dreams are our windows to imagination, we experience things we couldn’t in reality and we fore see paths and destinies. We are able to create for ourselves a future through our very thought and ideas and our dreams can make changes and outstanding difference in this our world. It is through our dreams that our ancestors have…

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…

concerned in seeking out pleasure. Where as the ego is “governed by the reality principle” (Topics in the History of Psychology, volume 2, G.A.Kimle, K. Schlesinger, p228) and its role is to repress and control the id. Finally, the superego is somewhere between the two and is the moral conscience. The superego also holds the image of the ideal self, which is a mental picture of what one should aim to be. The way Freud viewed the roles of the id, ego and superego within the mind was crucial to…