Sophomore's dream

An author, C. Elizabeth once said, “Real is not dreams. Dreams are not real. Unless you can find the fine line...and erase it.” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Shakespeare, the fine line between reality and dreams is truly tested. In the first four acts, dreams influence one’s mind and imagination takes over the characters’ minds. From fairies to unimaginable love interests, it is obvious that one is not in reality. In Act 5 Scene 1, however, everything returns to the norm and reality returns.…

sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other. – CG Jung Community-Based Dreaming is a curriculum that has been in development for some years to offer experiential dream circles within a community setting. It blends depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, fairytale theory, and community building as part of a wider mission to infuse modern culture with imagination. Stromsted (2015) noted for thousands of years, early traditional people saw dreams as oracles…

Sleep and Dreams Analysis In this log that I kept for my sleeping habits I noticed a little constant routine in my sleep.I would go to bed every night at around 10:15pm and I would wake up at around 5:20am, basically I get around 8-9 hrs of sleep counting the naps. Although I noticed something quite funny, during the past week I had a dream every other night. I think I’m getting enough sleep because I get all the hours of sleep needed. For example I go bed at 10pm and I wake up at 5am and…

The dream I will be interpreting is one I had a while ago, but never understood due to it being so random and strange. Granted I had this dream when I was in middle school, so when names such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or Braydon (my middle school crush) come up, that is why. The dream starts out and I am standing in a hotel lobby. The lobby is huge. Big enough to have a concert in, which is exactly what was happening. Taylor Swift was performing and a small crowd of about 300 people were…

Dreams are the one thing in the world that everyone has in common. No matter where one is from, he or she has undoubtedly dreamt while sleeping. What separates these unconscious encounters is how each individual interprets them. In Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, he claims that dreams act as wish fulfilment. While many may agree, the argument backing up this point of view is quite unreliable. Freud’s take on why people dream cannot be taken as fact because not all dreams are…

Dreams have been the topic of discussion for hundreds of years, yet the answer for why we dream and what they mean has yet to be answered. Dreams are a series of vivid images that occur during the REM stage of sleep. Many scientists have tried to explain the meaning of dreams with theories. Per Sigmund Fraud, our dreams are a way of playing out our wishes that we might not think of consciously. This theory is made up of two parts manifest content, which is the actual dream itself and how it is…

noblest chicken on their farm, is awoken by a dream, a nightmare of being eaten by a fox. He is called crazy and thought to be sick but little did all his wives know that dreams in fact can be a portal to the future and can teach valuable lessons. In the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” the story teaches valuable lessons that dreams should not be overlooked, people shouldn’t be prideful in making choices, and people should watch out for false compliments. Firstly, dreams should never be overlooked. The…

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 therapist's objective was to reduce…

Dreaming of Miss America There are not many little girls who do not dream of being a princess. As a little girl, one of my favorite things to do was to watch Miss America with my mom. My mom would always say, “That could be you one day.” The pageant was so exciting because it was a night filled with upbeat music, glitzy costumes, and fun performances. My mom and I would always pick out our favorite contestant and cheer her on throughout the show. I kept telling my mom that I wanted to have a…

to first understand the long history of dreams themselves. A dream is defined by Oxford Dictionary as, “a succession of images, emotions, sensations, and ideas that occur during periods of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep”. This inexplicable event has confounded civilization after civilization, throughout the course of written history. And it still continues to this day to cause wonder and raise questions in our society. The first written record of dreams started 3100 B.C. with the Sumerians in…