The average human being spends one third of their life in sleep and during each sleep approximately two hours is spent dreaming (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). ... The modern day idea that dreams come from our daily life is partially accurate. When I say "partially" I mean only a specific aspect of dreams comes from daily life interactions. The imagery in dreams comes from daily life (Freud 1900). ... So to put it in lay terms "You"ll never see an object in dream that you haven't seen in your daily life" (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). ...

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Like in most of literature there must be a general knowledge of life. ... This brings about a certain peace of mind and allows him to live life without regret for his decisions that have had some effect on his life and beliefs. ... By stoping what daily course of action, i.e. paralying, he intervenes with their daily routine of life and tries to end their faulty ideas and helps them formulate new ideas on their own. ... Thus opening the minds of Atheans to see what so many of them have taken for granted in life. ...

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The others: life can have meaning and life doesn't have meaning, do not catch my attention. ... They have no sense of life. ... There are times in life that you question the meaningfulness of life. ... How do we determine the meaning of life? ... "What is life without meaning?...

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There is no real proof concerning these areas of reality and humanity, so in one sense, life could be like Plato's cave analogy- what if God was just giving our minds a diversion to keep us occupied? ... Two prominent ways to view human life come from the great philosophers: Plato and Saint Augustine. These men devoted much of their lives to pondering over these great questions of human life; however, they take drastically different views. ... We therefore have a "passion" in life, and this passion animates life itself. ...

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Of course he framed his question in a way that made it impossible to give the only reasonable answer, which we in the science studies have slowly rediscovered three centuries later: that we are relatively sure of many of the things with which we are daily engaged through the practice of our laboratories. ... Like a heart taken out of a young woman who has just died in an accident and soon to be transplanted into someone else's thorax thousands of miles away, Descartes's mind requires artificial life-support to keep it viable. Only a mind put in the strangest position, looking at a wo...

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." - 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." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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