When a shaman enters the spirit world, it is just like a dream. ... Hmong shamanisms are believers of animal sacrifices. They believe the animal's soul is connected to theirs. To have the help of the animal, the shaman has to get permission from the animal first. When the animal agrees, the shaman will then give whatever amount of money the animal needs. ...
Other animals don't have the same type of brain as a human; therefore animals are considered generally not to have this freedom of thought. ... His relationship with the fish is to explain the connection between man and animals. ... Again he shows that humans are limited and can be related to plain animals. ... The flowers were needed by warm blooded animals for nutritional purposes to keep there energy up. ... The last of the three is "The Dream Animal" in which Eiseley goes on about the evolution of man. ...
DesCartes stated that he had no way of being certain that everything he perceived was nothing more than something he created subconsciously in his mind, such as a in dream. This theory fails because dreams are built on knowledge we have of the external world, on bits and pieces of our real experience. ... He understands that life depends upon physiochemical reaction, but he states that animals and plants are nothing more than very complicated biochemical machines, and only humans have the capacity for rational thought. ...
Freud also made the comment that sometimes a person's dreams were actually a gateway for secret desires. ... The puzzle box that Skinner created taught animals that if they wanted the food within the box then they would either have to tap a bar or light in order to get to it. ...
