“Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?” The Flaming Lips has left this lyric embedded in the hearts of many people, but not everyone realizes this basic knowledge of human existence. There is a vast number of fundamental themes of our human existence that are not acknowledged, but is present in literature throughout history in every culture. Myths are fictional stories use metaphors to present and explain a mystery in the world—the source of study for human nature. They convey information about the perception of the world on the personal, cultural, and universal level, but all myths share the same themes. This unit, Mythology and Beowulf, defined important fundamental points about human existence. Individuals ultimately are
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In simpler terms, our collective, permanent conditions linked to our brain combine with current, more temporary situations in our life to create a dream. The song, The Boat of The Fragile Mind subtly poked at the words of Campbell, “I dream about you all the time, [y]ou must be on my mind… [t]o live to tell the tale of it” (Mare, 2013). Writer of the song, Amelia Bushell illuminates that her dreams about this person has a direct link to her thinking about that person constantly and that we live to tell the tale of them. This song suggests that we According to Campbell, our dreams and mythology are similar but are still distinctly different. Both incorporate mythic themes but dreams are private, and a myth is public (Moyers, Campbell 3). Although the song suggests that dreams which are continually about the same thing, they should be made public. The myth aspect of this unit revealed that maybe these mythological stories are of things people actually dreamed about, and they made it a reality through telling it orally, through writing, or song. These dreams are sending a message. Dreams are trying to reveal if our brain is stressed or not and nightmares are dreams taking temporary, bad situations a person is going through and illuminating it, so that the person is aware of that their mind is affected too. These myths and dreams hold important themes that are trying to get across messages of human nature as a whole. We need to finally realize our purpose and the underlying messages that are hidden across the spectrum of literature, films, and music. The fundamental points of our human existence are inevitable and are there for us to finally
In simpler terms, our collective, permanent conditions linked to our brain combine with current, more temporary situations in our life to create a dream. The song, The Boat of The Fragile Mind subtly poked at the words of Campbell, “I dream about you all the time, [y]ou must be on my mind… [t]o live to tell the tale of it” (Mare, 2013). Writer of the song, Amelia Bushell illuminates that her dreams about this person has a direct link to her thinking about that person constantly and that we live to tell the tale of them. This song suggests that we According to Campbell, our dreams and mythology are similar but are still distinctly different. Both incorporate mythic themes but dreams are private, and a myth is public (Moyers, Campbell 3). Although the song suggests that dreams which are continually about the same thing, they should be made public. The myth aspect of this unit revealed that maybe these mythological stories are of things people actually dreamed about, and they made it a reality through telling it orally, through writing, or song. These dreams are sending a message. Dreams are trying to reveal if our brain is stressed or not and nightmares are dreams taking temporary, bad situations a person is going through and illuminating it, so that the person is aware of that their mind is affected too. These myths and dreams hold important themes that are trying to get across messages of human nature as a whole. We need to finally realize our purpose and the underlying messages that are hidden across the spectrum of literature, films, and music. The fundamental points of our human existence are inevitable and are there for us to finally