In Between Dreams

dreaming it's called a lucid dream. When a strange dream makes a person stop and question reality is when it typically occurs. Lucid dreaming has an interesting aspect to it, and it's the ability to regulate the dream and make some other reality in the dream state, which is the reason why lots of people learn the fundamental lucid dreaming steps. A lot of cultures from ancient times took lucid dreaming very seriously. For instance, people living in ancient Egypt thought that dreams opened up…

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",…

Deceitful Dreams According to the Oxford Dictionary, a dream is, "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal; An unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy." Dreams are different from one another and come in many shapes and sizes, but all dreams are purely a desire and are imaginative. In society, dreams play a large role in how people live their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The…

incidents, beliefs, emotions, sensations and ideas. The deep rooted emotions and experiences surface from the soul in the rem of sleep. These disambiguations are usually seen as a bridge between an absolute reality and a distorted fabrication of the mind, however dreams have been perceived as a way of communication between a spiritual being and its subject in the unknown realm of mind. Sometimes these illusions may present themselves in a manner where the human psyche fails to comprehend its…

Hebbrecht, M. (2013). The dream as a picture of the psychoanalytic process. Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 6(2), 123–142. Retrieved from https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=93354202&site=ehost-live&scope=site This article references the Interpretation of Dreams by Freud in reference to the pictures of dream life and the psychology behind dreams. Freuds technique is to break the dream in all its elements and…

two weeks.” (Picchioni et al., 2002. p. 157). How stress and anxiety disorders affect dreams is something that is often researched. Many studies have come to the conclusion that dreams allow you to release stress. When you dream, you are allowing your mind to cleanse itself of your fears and ideas of the day. However, when your fears are constant like in the case of an anxiety disorder, going through your dreams anxious can cause more anxiety in their day to day life. Generalized Anxiety…

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…

Meditation” mainly deals with doubt of existence and how doubt is made possible because of sensory deception. He creates the dream argument that argues about how it is possible to be uncertain about whether or not a person is in a real world or dream world. In philosopher G.E. Moore’s “Certainty” he attempts to debunk Descartes’ argument through showing the inconsistencies in his dream argument. Since Descartes’ argument is built on inconsistency, Moore’s replies are satisfactory. In this…

chapter of our textbook Psychology: Themes and Variations, Weiten discusses various topics of consciousness; one of which includes the world of dreams. He begins with the contents of dreams and goes into different areas of what the unconscious mind dreams. There are common themes that were reported in a study from college students. Weiten brings up that our dreams are influenced by what is happening in our day to day lives, or by different stimuli that would be affecting us while we sleep. By…

The unresolved emotion of fear lingers with Laura throughout the story until she meets Carmilla for the first time. After meeting Carmilla she learns that Carmilla also had a dream of her when she was a child, about six years old and what once terrified her now attracts her with her beauty and dark passionately gazing eyes. Halfway through the story we see a sense of guilt come from Carmilla as she plans to pursue her mother…