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    Nightmares

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    Most people think nightmares are nothing more. Just a simple nightmare to wake up from in the morning. Just a bad dream that will be gone by the time they eat breakfast. But this isn’t true. With every nightmare‚ comes a meaning. Nightmares have a meaning behind them‚ and a reason for starting. A nightmare is a dream with many negative emotions. The International Association for the study of dreams stated‚ “A nightmare is a very distressing dream which usually forces at least partial awakening

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    Gothic Nightmares

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    Gothic Nightmares Fuseli‚ Blake and the Romantic Imagination at Tate Britain 15th February- 1st May 2006 The exhibition is divided amongst eight rooms‚ a number of artists‚ work‚ such as Henry Fuseli‚ James Barry‚ Joseph Wright of Derby‚ Catherine Blake‚ Philippe Jaques de Loutherbourg display their work collectivly. This collective exhibition including many great artists is an interesting way of showing their work‚ acting like a whole installation. The main focus of the

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    CRITICAL ANALYSIS: Explanation‚ Analysis‚ Interpretation | The Projectionist’s NightmareThis is the projectionist’s nightmare: A bird finds it’s way into the cinema‚ finds the beam‚ flies down it‚ smashes into a scene depicting a garden‚ a sunset‚ and two people being nice to each other. Real blood‚ real intestines‚ slither down the likeness of a tree. ‘This is no good‚’ screams the audience‚ ‘This is not what we came to see.’ Brian Pattenhttp://www

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    The Problem of Nightmares

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    body. However‚ sometimes dreaming is not so enjoyable. Of all the adults‚ 2-8% has one or more nightmares per month (L. Chanin‚ 2011‚ Nightmares in Adults). Unfortunately‚ I am one of them. In general‚ nightmares are not regarded as serious issues but I think they should be because they can cause serious physical and psychological problems. According to H. Kellerman (1987‚ p. 217)‚ the word nightmare derives from the Old English word “mare”‚ which was a mythological demon who brought frightening

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    Nightmare Creator

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    The Nightmare Creator It was a blazing summer’s day. My surroundings were slowly starting to melt: the trees‚ the houses‚ the sky and the pathway to my garage. It seemed that I was about to dissipate as well‚ becoming a puddle of glue-like substance left on the ground. I was walking at crawling speed. My head felt huge and heavy‚ and each muscle in my body felt sore. My arms and legs were responding to the signals that my brain was sending to them at a slower speed than I thought was possible

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    Cardona 4 Luz A. Cardona​ Mr. Butler Eng 111-1N January 24‚ 2013 From A Nightmare to Reality ​With music blasting‚ singing out loud‚ chewing a Strawberry Bubblelicious gum‚ and driving by East Broad Street‚ it was just another typical morning on my way to school. I was a few miles from school; I only had to turn onto a gravel road to get to North Center Street‚ which was where the high school was located. As I was driving‚ all of a sudden I started to sense like dizziness‚ perhaps numbness

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    Allysa Broeker Smokey Mountain Nightmare Gazing at the stars outside the sun roof of my husband’s silver sports car seemed to be the only way to control the excitement building inside me. My imagination ran wildly thru visions of scenic mountains draped in clouds of fog. The grey rocky cliffs surrounded by colorful spring flowers almost parallel the beauty of the cool crystal water flowing over a fall like the most rapid of rain spraying a chilly mist on all who behold. With my head full of fantasy

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    share of dreams as well as nightmares. I knew that dreams were usually perceived as happy and nightmares were almost always frightening experiences. Some dreams could also be interpreted for deeper meanings. Lastly‚ prior to researching‚ I knew dreams only lasted a portion of the time‚ and one usually had a difficult time remembering the content of the dream upon awakening. Through my research I wished to discover how people are affected by their dreams and nightmares in their behavior‚ mood‚ and

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    Compare Owen’s differing presentation of the nightmare in Dulce Et Decorum Est‚ Anthem and The Sentry‚ consider how is it presented and whether the focus is on the subjects or the poet. Owen’s presentation of the First World War in Dulce Et Decorum Est is achieved by direct connotations of the metaphor ‘nightmare’. By doing this‚ he implies that the audience will never be able to relate to the poem and really understand the horrors during WW1. For example‚ ‘till on the haunting flares we turned

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    The Art Centre Theatre in Plano‚ Texas showcased a marvelous play based on Tim Burton’s movie‚ The Nightmare Before Christmas. Originally generated as a poem‚ this tells a story about Jack Skellington‚ a citizen of Halloween Town‚ who coincidentally tumbles upon a portal that leads to Christmas Town and becomes determined to celebrate the holiday with barbarous and witty repercussions. The cast and crew members of the Art Centre Theatre executed the play miraculously. When entering within the theatre

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