But what should we make of those strange hallucinogenic states we fall into night after night? ... One ancient book classified dreams and their symbols into different meanings. ... The ancient Middle Eastern traditions seeped into the Greek practices of dream interpretation. ... Subsequent scientific studies of dreaming do not support either Freudian or Jungian views of dream analysis but rather reveal that our dreams are more humdrum. ... Recent research into dreaming shows that the area of the brain used in dreaming is the same as used for remembering emotions. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She's portrayed as Carl Jung's psychological analysis of Self. ... When Addie finally dies in her bed, after her life of pride, "Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candlesticks." ... She says: "I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth." ... Vardaman is full of confusion and loneliness, that he had at one time ran to the barn, where he touches the horses flesh as if he were reaching for his mother: The life in him runs under the skin, under my hand, running through the splotches, smelling us into my nose where t...

• Word Count: 1564
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• Grade Level: High School