Lucid dream

my dreams was not a very easy thing for me to do. I tend to not remember my dreams, so it took a lot of hard work for me to correctly recollect them. The reason I chose this dream to analyze was because I found it so strange and completely untrue. The truth about how I felt about my mother and how she treated me was nothing close to my dream. That is why I actually enjoyed analyzing it and getting down to the truth of what it really meant. The first thing I distinctly remember from my dream is…

Have you ever done something bizarre, and wondered what your motives were? Has there ever been a time where you’ve done something but your reasons were much deeper than you could understand? This is the result of your unconscious hard at work. The unconscious mind holds the secrets that create our outer personality and drive our actions, the secrets that we cannot harness voluntarily. Psychologist Joseph Campbell describes how the unconscious mind plays a huge role in mythology and culture, two…

talks about what happens to dreams when they do not come true. Although, when the speaker addresses to a dream, he is referring to back in the slave days when black and whites were segregated. The blacks once had a dream that they would be treated equally with the whites. That they would go to the same school and not have to sit in the back of the bus. When Hughes wrote this poem it was a few years before the ending of slavery and segregation, so he felt that his dream was deferred. The theme,…

A scene that shows these attributes comes after Santiago leaves a comfortable oasis in Egypt, to attend to his dream once more. As he pauses in the desert, a horseman dressed in black rushes him, with a sword raised to kill. "Who dares read the meaning of the flight of the hawks?" he demanded. He does not flee nor does he attempt to fight and protect himself. Instead, Santiago bows his head for the blow and says, "It is I who dare to do so. Many lives will be saved because I was able to see…

The function of dreams has been a highly controversial topic throughout history, and at this point, no one fully comprehends why we dream (Hill, 1996). Philosophical explanations for dreams are dominated by Socrates and Plato, both of whom also believed in the psychological function of dreams. Plato thought that when our reasoning capacity was suspended during sleep, passions and desires revealed themselves (Hill, 1996). Similarly, Socrates argued that an unruly gathering of desires exists and…

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…

Dreams are defined by a series of ‘mental and emotional processes that occur during sleep, including thoughts, imagery, and problem-solving.’ (Osman, 2015) They often have a temporal progression with an accompanying narrative. Dream research focuses on the implications of dreams, both psychological and physiological, and how these implications relate to conscious and unconscious processes. Assuming a dualist approach to the mind-body debate, dream research attempts to connect material and mental…

The movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a real life best seller “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”, by author H.G. Bissinger. The movie’s setting takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when the tension between races were still strong in some areas of the south. There is some focus in some areas of the film that has to do with racial tension and the ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by…

Dreams are eccentric to interpret and question. To people, dreams offer a chance to wonder about the subconscious part inhabiting in our minds. With that, dreams are also great supplemental material as an interesting story to tell one another or to just utilize as a filler for a conversation. However, people have always wondered for ages what exactly their dreams truly meant. Could dreams prophesize one’s future– or perhaps society’s? Or, could these dreams provide a simple visionary example of…

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…