All through history we have sought to fathom the meanings of our dreams and every culture has it's theories about dreams. ... More than likely, everyone dreams. ... The same may be true of the brain's response to other dream sensations: certainly, stimuli such as a spray of water, a strong smell, a sudden sound such as the ringing of an alarm clock, a voice, a few notes of music, or a brief flash of light, may all be incorporated into dream and "rationalized" in some way to fit in with its content ( Wade 173). ... By avoiding narrative and emotional complexity of REM dreams and ...

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Michael Santos was a 23 yr old Seattle suburban guy who was on his way living the dream. ... Santos also had to confirm the validity and the accuracy of the prisoners account by note taking and reading verbatim what was said back to the prisoner he was taking notes from and interviewing at that time. ... Throughout Santos' novel, he had his observations and notes that, as mentioned, were comprised via the viewpoints and takes of other inmates. ... This is again noted especially well throughout Santos book towards the beginning and middle chapters of the book. ... They are just throwing ...

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Until 1983, the only things that evoked its existence were a note in Cole's list of topics, an entry in the Cole memorial exhibition catalogue and the existence of a small draft and a few drawings. ...

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After he wandered into an abandoned, ruined, stone city his natural instincts to survive became the only thing that he knew, "I drank water- and I understood that my needs as an animal were met. ... Charles was never born with these traits, beliefs, and characteristics; they were acquired through the experiences and the believed reality during his dreams and hallucinations. ... This particular section of the novel, of Sinbad's preliminary encounter on this new land, closely emulates the story of Adam and Eve, taken from the bible, out of the book of Genesis. ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate