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    Dream Summaries Day Dreaming: When your imagination carries you away. Daydreaming is a classified level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. False Awakening Dreams: You dream that you wake up and your day starts‚ but then you actually wake up. Lucid Dreaming: Where you realize you are dreaming during your dream‚ and then have the ability to control your dream and what happens inside of it. Nightmares: A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling anxious and

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    Dream my Dream Without dream‚ there can be no courage; without courage‚ there can be no action. What Wim Wenders said indicates the importance of the dream‚ which no one can deny. Most people’s dream is not stable and changes with the time going by‚ but the critical point is that they do have a dream. I’m the person with a dream. I once romantically dreamed to be an excellent diplomat at early age and later‚ I was looking forward to teaching undergraduates in a historical university. But now‚ I’m

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    Reflection – Why we dream. Dream is a very interesting phenomenon that occurs every time we sleep or at least once at a time. Till now‚ dream remains enigma for us about its capability to be virtually shown to the other person. Scientists discoveries up till today has bring up our exitement to study more about our dream. Me myself‚ has been a little bit enthusiatic after watching the potential‚ importance and benefits that dream can do throughout the documentary. Rem sleep was

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    "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."- Henry David Thoreau Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years‚ but only recently have dreams been subjected to empirical research and concentrated scientific study. Chances are that you’ve often found yourself puzzling over the mysterious content of a dream‚ or perhaps you’ve wondered why you dream at all. What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images‚ thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can

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    Dreams are very different from waking life‚ but it is extremely difficult clearly to define in what the difference consists. When we are dreaming‚ we are nearly always convinced that we are awake‚ and in some cases real experiences have been mistaken for dreams. The latter mistake forms the subject of a celebrated Spanish play called Life a Dream‚ and of an amusing story in the Arabian Nights‚ in which a poor man is for a jest treated as a mighty monarch‚ and it is contrived that he should afterwards

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    Dreams Introduction Dreams are successions of images‚ ideas‚ emotions‚ and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood‚ though they have been a topic of scientific speculation and a subject of philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Scientists believe that other mammals‚ birds and reptiles‚ also dream. Dreams mainly

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    Ruoqi Xu Psychology Professor Dude 11/22/12 Dream and Its Meaning Dream can be happy‚ delightful‚ absurd or even fearful. Dream is what we experience when we sleep; it “involves an integration of perceptual‚ emotional‚ motivational‚ and cognitive processes performed by various brain modules” (Passer and Ronald193). However‚ the content of the dream and the reason why we dream specific content still remain a mystery till today. Although many scientists have been attempting to find the answers

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    Dreams In the Greek and Roman eras‚ dreams were seen in a religious context. They were believed to be direct messages from the gods or from the dead. The people of that time look to their dreams for solutions on what to do or what course of action to take. They believed dreams forewarned and predicted the future. Greek philosopher‚ Aristotle‚ believed that dreams were a result of physiological functions. Dreams were able to diagnose illness and predict onset of disease. During the Middle Ages

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    be a “Falling Dream”. Ironically‚ falling dreams usually occur when you are drifting off to sleep. However‚ they interpret a different meaning. “Falling” can mean that you feel you are losing your grip‚ or you are self-conscious‚ or simply have fears that need to be faced. Patricia Garfield‚ the author of the book Creative Dreaming‚ states‚ “There’s some problem that is making you feel helpless – like you have no support.” So next time you wake up startled from a “falling dream”‚ ask yourself

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    151.15 09-30-13 Dream On The word dream is defined as: “1 A train of thoughts or images passing through the mind in sleep. 2 A mental condition similar to that of one sleeping; daydreaming. 3 A visionary idea or fancy.” (“Dream” 216) The phrase “I had/have a dream” has many possible meanings. It could stand for having a dream while you are asleep‚ having a dream while you are awake‚ i.e. daydreaming‚ and having a dream as in a goal you want to accomplish in your life. Dreams play a major role

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