Dreams have been objects of boundless fascination and mystery for humankind since the beginning of time. ... Through observing and evaluating three of my own dreams, I have found these dreams as places where I am provided with comfort and situations that satisfy some of my deepest ambitions and fulfill my wishes. The first dream I evaluated was a dream I had in the sixth grade, about a date that I was on. ... I kissed her, fulfilling a wish as a child that I never would have imagined. ... I have come to the conclusion that many dreams are positive outcomes to problems or situations of the in...

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When I say "partially" I mean only a specific aspect of dreams comes from daily life interactions. ... I spoke earlier of REM (Rapid Eye Movement); it is the time in which the individual will have their dreams. ... Now that the diagnostics of dreams has been covered, I would like to focus on the origin of dreams from a medical standpoint. ... Thus far, I have established that dreams have both a metaphysical existence and a physical. ... There seven types of dreams according to the facts I have researched. ...

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The paintings that I chose to concentrate on were two men whose names were Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. ... I thought what was interesting about this piece of art was that she looks so peaceful, yet she is drawn so abstract that it makes you wonder what she is dreaming about. ... This so called activity could come out in the dream like form that I have talked about in my paper. ... These two paintings have a very surreal and dream-like feel to them. ... When I first saw these paintings, I immediately thought of being in a dream-like state. ...

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Dreams have a superior intelligence in them: a wisdom and cleverness that guides people. ... Dreams have importance and meaning in life; they are not just stories while one sleeps. ... Someone will be having a dream, when suddenly his conscious mind takes notice of an anomaly, or something "not quite right," and he thinks, "This can't be real, so I must be dreaming!" ... Many people who have remembered their dreams have experienced one that later transpired. ... Dreams have a superior intelligence in them: a wisdom and cleverness that guide people. ...

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I could not remember having a dream that was as scary as this. ... I half expected her to have some kind of harmful weapon in her hand. ... On the same token, if I was running from some random person, the dream would probably not have stayed with me as long. ... This means that dreams and experiences have to be unique in order to have staying power. If I have the same bad dream every night. ...

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I get to the crowded parking lot and search for a spot remotely close so that I do not have to walk as far. ... I keep wondering what I could have done to shock all these people. ... I have absolutely no clothes on! Alright so not everyone has had this exact dream but most people have had one similar to it. Everyone dreams, but the big question is do they have any meaning? ...

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I begin to walk and realize that I don't have any idea where my class is or what class I have. ... I will begin by saying that the setting of my High School actually does have some importance. ... Now that I have use the cipher method to analyze it I will incorporate it to why it is a reoccurring dream. ... Also, within that year I had to apply for residency at UMass Boston so I could have cheaper tuition. ... I think the dream represents a time of change in life. ...

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But didn't we all have dreams of what we would be when we were older. ... We had, we have so many dreams but why don't we all pursue them? ... I would have probably just started my first year of school when mum put me into ballet. ... I decided I finally had to take a small grasp at my dream of becoming a mermaid. ... And although teaching is something that I have always wanted to do and I know I will be relatively happy doing, people like me and myself are trapped by dogma. ...

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Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA. ... Along with that, he couldn't keep his grades up enough to attend a Division I school. ... They both said they still have the dream but they aren't going to chase it. ... This story is a great story for young kids who have the dream for becoming stars. ... All in all, this book was one of the best I have ever read. ...

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Even if once in a while a dream may creep in, I would forget it the second I wake up. Recalling back memories, there is one dream that clearly haunts in my mind. ... I had this recurring dream in my high school when college entrance exam exerted high pressure on me. ... Flying dreams also serve as an escape from the pressure of the real world. ... I have free spirit blood in my vein. ...

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Historically, most of the world's cultures have believed that dreams come from an outside sources, as visitations from the gods. ... In fact, as late as the last century, people have interpreted the horrifying apparitions in nightmares as demons intent on seducing the innocent (Fontana 22). ... All through history we have sought to fathom the meanings of our dreams and every culture has it's theories about dreams. ... The conscious mind is governed by the ego- the "I" which can act in the outside world, and has a will. ... Researchers have collected a number of clairvoyant dreams a...

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Dreaming about Reality For ages people have tried to analyze our dreams, and make sense of them. ... Many respectable people have gathered thoughts about this topic, and have written works about it as well. ... Although they discuss the differences between the two, I feel that a person's most inner thoughts and feelings can only come true through their subconscious. ... Having dreams is the best way to achieve something that one can't achieve in the "real world." ... Being able to have super powers or being able to meet a celebrity is obtainable through the "dream world." ...

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What does cause those seemingly incoherent dreams that we have? Psychologists have proposed numerous explanations as to what initiates the strange dreams. ... The girl I was following was leading me on in real life, and that also relates to the next dream I had. ... Even before I had these dreams, I must have known these things were true in real life. But maybe the fact that I never admitted them to myself resulted in me to having these dreams. ...

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I begin to walk and realize that I don't have any idea where my class is or what class I have. ... I will begin by saying that the setting of my High School actually does have some importance. ... Now that I have use the cipher method to analyze it I will incorporate it to why it is a reoccurring dream. ... Also, within that year I had to apply for residency at UMass Boston so I could have cheaper tuition. ... I think the dream represents a time of change in life. ...

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I have chosen to interpret this dream for several reasons. ... Victors retelling of his dream is this: I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. ... The first thing I identified in the dream was the symbolism. ... I extended that symbol to include the graveworms that are mentioned in Victor's dream. ... I venture to say that the dream reveals that Victor's lust was not confined to Elizabeth. ...

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I have chosen to interpret this dream for several reasons. ... Victors retelling of his dream is this: I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. ... The first thing I identified in the dream was the symbolism. ... I extended that symbol to include the graveworms that are mentioned in Victor's dream. ... I venture to say that the dream reveals that Victor's lust was not confined to Elizabeth. ...

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Speaking of mind, Freud's interpretations of dreams have to do with the mind, and I personally sense a connection to this by means of the shadow. ... (Jacobus, 330) Personally I have experienced all four, but I would like to focus on the fulfillment of a wish. ... I went to shake his hand and then I woke up. ... I soon realized that I had seen a basketball game the night before and this game must have sparked my intellect. ... They have proven this with countless essays namely the Allegory of the Cave and The Interpretation of Dreams. ...

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Have you ever heard the saying "I"ll sleep on it?" ... The event that causes the most nightmares would probably have to be withdrawal from a drug. ... They attempt to find an inventive prayer to make them closer to God and have that peaceful, secure feeling any time they say the prayer in the dream. ... Some simple ways of contributing to having better dreams is to just plainly good to bed feeling good rather than scared. ... The most common nightmare is, as I have previously mentioned, being chased. ...

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Understanding Life discusses the topics of goal setting, inferiority/superiority complexes, and dreams. ... "I want to be good"). ... Dreams are a major part of the unconscious that Adler stresses the as an essential part of life. ... Dreams do not represent actual steps needed to be taken, but rather to elicit a specific feeling. ... Another part of this are the individuals that do not dream or have so few that they cannot remember what the premise of their dreams are. ...

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He was the first one to suggest that psychological problems might have their roots in how children were treated. ... Likewise, the man wanted to destroy the tower in the dream: "I wished I had an axe to chop it down or matches to set in on fire." ... Kleinman goes on in his dream. ... He is now an adolescent in the puberty stage ready to have sex for the first time. ... As we have seen, we become sexual individuals since the day we are born. ...

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Structural Elements of the Personality When we say "I" we are speaking from the ego complex. ... As Jung says: everyone knows nowadays that people have complexes, what is not so well known however, is that complexes having us. ... They emerge in individuals through dreams and visions. And finally it is time to talk about dreams. ... Dreams could also have a compensating comment about our waking views. ...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. ... Films are like dreams and dreams interpret symbolism in ways science has not even fully discovered yet. ... When we see the soldiers hands fidgeting we associate this with anxiousness or nervousness because we have done this or have seen someone else do the same when they were anxious or nervous. ... The point is this is much more effective then having the character say, "I am nervous-. ... These i! ...

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All of these theories do have truth and are pretty accurate but each of them are missing certain portions deeming them to be false or somewhat incorrect. ... As Freud did more and more work on his theories and came up with the ideas on the subjects which I had previously stated (id, dreams, hearing caps) he based much of his information on that fact that humans were sex driven. ... Freud's description of dreams is that all of them are sex related. ... Most people dream of what is on their mind at that specific time and in most cases it is not related to sex. ... The superego, for the...

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Oedipus reveals, "After a painful search I found one cure: I acted at once. ... He then gouges out his eyes crying, " You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! ... Freud thinks that these drives are played out in our dreams. In the play, Oedipus is warned about his fate in two different dreams. For instance, Jocasta calms Oedipus by telling him of a dream she had that, "Many a man ere now in dreams hath lain with her who bare him. ...

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Freud points out sexual aspects of the patient's childhood involving watching his nanny masturbate a gardener and having his sister touch his member. ... Freud also theorizes in the case that the patient actually wants to have sexual relations with his father in a passive way, but is running from this to his nanny. The case also goes into an in-depth description of the client's dreams. These dreams involve seeing white wolves up in a tree. ... Freud eventually makes the leap between white wolves sitting in a tree and the patient's having watched his mothe...

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