The Waking

Lucid Dreaming and Waking Life Imagine being able to create a world in which you have unlimited power. Many people claim to not have dreams, simply because they cannot remember them, but everyone dreams. Some people have the ability to lucid dream which allows them to have control of the dream. Lucid dreaming opens up a part of yourself that you may not have known existed. There have been studies done, to show how lucid dreaming helps you bring out your creativity. In this paper I will argue…

real and incredibly true, regardless of how absurd or irrational the dream turns out to be; very rarely does the dreamer question the nature of their reality. This is epitomized in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s first round of dreams, or the characters’ waking up into a dream state. After magic was used on them, Lysander and Demetrius had no perception of their dramatic personality change though it was perfectly obvious to both Hermia and Helena (a perfect example of nothing seeming strange in a…

He says, that the experiences we have in our dreams are often really similar to those which we have in our waking life. Dreams make us feel that we are doing things in waking life but during our dreams we usually do not realize that what we are experiencing is just a dream. He claims that we can not tell for certain the difference between our waking life and dreaming experiences does not matter how many and how convincing differences we can found we can not be certain. In this…

In Meditation I, Descartes raises a great philosophical question as he argues to show that he cannot possibly know that he is not always dreaming. He asserts that there are no definite signs to distinguish his dreaming experiences from waking experiences. In his argument, he defends the idea that we could all be trapped in a life-long dream and that none of our experiences are real. Descartes then develops his argument furthermore to prove his existence and the idea of dualism. In his Meditation…

Which contains more truth-- our dreams or our waking perceptions? For ages, historians and scientists have pondered over the reasons and meanings behind dreams. Naturally, it caused an important question to emerge-- which conveys more truth, dreams or one’s waking perception? In short, dreams tend to depict more truth than waking perceptions because they reveal one’s true nature at a state where there is no control over the thought process. To elaborate upon this notion, in a conscious state of…

cannot tell the difference between what is a dream and what is real life, our perceptions could overall be false, and “assumes dreams are deceptive, first, because they are conscious experiences that are subjectively indistinguishable from standard waking experiences and second, because they involve false beliefs” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Though the perceptions…

natural circadian rhythm conflict with their routine? Konnikova claims that it is better to wake up naturally than to hit the snooze button. Waking up after having just fallen back asleep is detrimental to one’s ability to perform basic functions as well as one’s long term health. The act of waking up suddenly causes sleep inertia; when the gradual process of waking up is forced or interrupted by an alarm, the worse the “grogginess” caused by sleep inertia feels. Sleep inertia affects one’s…

and physical health. Gender differences have been studied for decades and one major finding is that men have been noted to be more aggressive in their waking lives than women. This aggression men feel extends to their dream content patterns as well. Due to biological and social factors, men have been found to be more aggressive in both their waking life and during their dreams. As many studies have shown, there is a big difference between the male and female dreaming process. An example…

develop his writing (Malkoff 5). This led Roethke to a career of teaching English and creating poetry. He received much recognition for his literary work, including the Pulitzer Prize, Bollington Prize, and National Book award. His notable works are The Waking, The Lost Son, The Far Field, and Words for the Wind. Expectedly, his recognition came with criticism, and people questioned Roethke’s status as a rising great…

to be put on life-sustaining treatment with a life-expectancy of three more months. The doctor and team looking over Monica was then forced to decide between trying to treat Monica without her knowledge, not treating Monica and letting her die, or waking her up and telling her about her condition (SLA pg. 68-69). As Eric Cassell states in The Healer’s Art, the doctor’s main purpose is to return control back to the patient. When a patient becomes ill, the reason why they approach a hospital for…