The Waking

dream they’re merely symbols of ourselves or symbolized what another person means to us. He believed that whenever a strange figure entered his dreamscape, the personage undoubtedly represented some aspect of himself that could not be expressed in waking consciousness. Freud wondered about the stories in history of someone being told to do something in a dream, maybe giving a wise urging that proves to be correct. Freud admires the respect that ancient peoples paid to this sort of dream, because…

most will experience senioritis. A condition in which most adults will “diagnose” seniors with. Senioritis is actually characterized by a decline in motivation or performance. Seniors begin to feel tired and beat. Tired of going to school, tired of waking up in the middle of the night, or early because they just remembered an essay that’s due tomorrow. They are you tired of the same places, same 4 walls each and every day. They just might experiencing what most will classify as senioritis.…

Introduction “Wishes suppressed during the day assert themselves in dreams (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams, 1999)." Most of us, if not all, have experienced waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and paranoid, looking around the room to see if there is someone else in the room. Most of us have spent the day worrying about something nerve racking and then having that show up in our dreams. Most people dream at least 4 to 6 times per night during the REM stage, although we…

reality checks every day. Reality checks bring about more vivid and lucid dreams by building better self-awareness during the morning hours. Reality checks give one the ability to identify the difference between a dream and a waking reality. Utilizing reality checks in the waking reality gives people the power to do them during their dreams, giving their conscious mind the ability to know when they are…

story of a workaholic son waking up to find himself completely transformed into a beetle. Kafka manages to capture an essence of what it feels like to come to a realization of what the truth really is through a transformation yourself. Kafka starts off the story by having the main character, Gregor Samsa, waking up to find himself struggling to get out of bed to go to work. Through the struggles of trying to get ready, Gregor does not once mention how he feels about waking up to find out that…

woken up from this past and the love that faded from reality into memory. He is dreaming of joy that has now left him, and that joy is no longer real to him. Next, the poet sets out to explain why he feels this way, when he says “But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.” In which he tells us that being here right now is breaking his heart and he wants to…

associated with dreaming, desynchronized and faster brain waves, loss of muscle tone, and suspension of homeostasis REM and non-REM sleep are so different that physiologists classify them as distinct behavioral states. In this view, REM, non-REM, and waking represent the three major modes of consciousness, neural activity, and physiological regulation. The alternation between REM and non-REM can be explained in terms of cycling, reciprocally influential neurotransmitter…

Imagine a cool, crisp, January morning waking up at my best friend’s house, I found myself tired. Knowing the events I would face today I would have needed a lot more energy than I had. Regretting that I’d stayed up all night, I got a shower then continued to get warm clothes on. As my dad pulled up my friend, Sydney, and I jumped in the car. Heading to the skating rink in Hohenwald, I was excited. Taking selfies with Sydney, as we arrived. Pulling into the parking lot, my car was ambushed by…

Should school start school later, yes because young adults need more sleep. Waking up early causes lack of sleep and can mess up a person’s health said by Later School Mornings. It shows that adolescents who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight, not engage in daily physical activity, and possibly perform poorly in school. Out of my class only 3/15 people agree that school should start later than normal. They think that it should start and end earlier. My question to the other…

career; whether I 'm headed down the right path or not. There were a few things in the dream that could represent this confusion. One is that I was putting pop in the shake machine. Another is that it was very difficult to find what I needed when in my waking life I know the layout of our stock room without even going back there. The third is the obstacles I had to get through to get to where I needed to be. These could all be examples of confusion. The third example I mentioned in the previous…