Nightmare

Everyone dreams some good and of course there’s some nightmare “story of my life” to be exact, my story how I let my good dreams turn into a nightmare instantly. So there I was at the age of 8 years old I was tired of the typical school every day & trap in the house lifestyle, I didn’t know what I wanted to do as a child, but I always wanted to do something, I’ve seen my brother who I looked up to my whole life a high school soccer superstar and then you have my sisters all 4 of them doing…

Dream? More Like a Nightmare. Bernie Sanders once said “For many, the American dream has become a nightmare”. The past notions that America is country in which people have freedom and the ability to better their lives has died within the last several decades. However, some are still under the belief that the dream lives. This has done nothing but make their lives and the lives of their dependents worse as their identity has become convoluted. The fact the American Dream is nothing but a…

One night Mum had a terrible nightmare. A nightmare of a nightmare. I'm not even sure what it was about. Something crazy that she wouldn't even tell me. Another night, Becky had a nightmare of a nightmare, too. There was a pattern to this. Other ladies had nightmares of that kind too. And then Mum and Becky found themselves pregnant. Becky was in denial, but Mum was more practically minded and pointed…

The Nightmare That Never Ended The very idea of parents, guardians, and caregivers consciously and willfully committing acts of violence towards the children they are responsible for protecting and nurturing seems like a distant and foreign concept to most but it is a sad fact in our society. “In 2012, state agencies found an estimated 686,000 victims of child maltreatment. This would pack 10 modern football stadiums.”(1) What do you do when you bare witness to such atrocity? How is one…

Homework: Everyone's Nightmare Homework is defined as “tasks assigned to students by school teachers that are intended to be carried out during nonschool hours” (Voorhees). Throughout the United States’ history people’s opinions have varied on the topic of homework. Historically, variation in the opinions of homework have shifted over time due to educational trends and world events. Today, the topic of homework continues to cause debate among various organization and schools of thought.…

Late into the night, a girl falls into a deep sleep. After a while, she has a dream that she is trapped in a dark and dreary basement. She begins to cautiously wander around looking for a way out as her heart is racing. All of the sudden, she hears a loud crackling sound. She hastily turns around to see what had made the noise. To her surprise, she saw a large, bright orange flame expanding out over the whole width of the hallway behind her. By looking intensely at the flames, she notices…

produced and directed, along Mike Johnson, the stop-motion animated film Corpse Bride, with Johnny Depp as the voice of Victor Van Dort and Helena Bonham-Carter as the voice of Emily. The imagery of the film is similar to the imagery we see in The Nightmare Before Christmas, but the nature of Corpse Bride is more adult and dark. The film, which was a huge box office success, tells the story of Victor, who was practicing his wedding vows in the woods when Emily, a murdered young bride, rises from…

actually just killing themselves because of the cold, thus making the nightmare more real. There were times were two or three people in a day that would die, and eventually only 50 people remained after two or three months. Their dream was becoming a nightmare. When they were trying to create this perfect place, they only ended up killing off families, with people dying everyday for two months. This seems to me more like a nightmare than a dream, since there were families torn apart everywhere…

witnessed or been apart of a traumatic event. In the article Posttraumatic Nightmares of Traumatized Refugees: Dream Work Integrating Cultural Values, Carla Shubert and Raija-Leena Punamaki explore the application of dream work in psychotherapy.The article includes a study of an African and Middle Eastern woman. Both of the women have PTSD and go through a series of recorded therapy sessions. The symptoms of the women included nightmares, anxiety and pains in the body. During these sessions the…

institutions shut down in the 1970s. “ At some point in the 1970s the decision was made to close state-run mental health institutions. Much of this was motivated by The Community Mental Health Act in 1963,” Dustin DeMoss stated in his article, “The Nightmare of Prison for Individuals With Mental Illness,” on his first paragraph. According to the author, the reason for mental health institutions were shut down was due to the influence by The Community Mental Health Act in 1963. There had been…