I Am Standing Still - Original Writing

My grandma took me to the doctors to get a check up. Grandma was worried for me, so after my check up the doctor suggested to put me on flower pills. I was dreaming within a dream, talking to myself, awake for days. When I’m awake I have a lot of dreams, when I was out, when I was home. It’s all I did. I also dreamt about things I lost, I think from an early age you have to get used to losing a lot of things because if you don’t things will get really bad for you. You have to get used to letting things go and never getting them back.

All of these dreams were created in the same place I am today. I have lived in the same place all my life. I have also been at the same school with most of the same people since kindergarten. High school was a huge change and the first time I

Embers flew from the campfire, and into the starry night sky; meanwhile, the campers, Jackie, Carl, and Jim, sat close to it for warmth. “Now who's ready for a campfire story?” said Jackie. “You can sometimes go a little overboard, so Carl is taking the wheel.” Carl continued, “Once upon a time” Jim screams, and Carl rolls his eyes at Jim, “May I proceed,” He responds rhetorically. By the time Carl finishes the scary story, Jim has already dashed into the tent, startling his dog, a basset hound named Roxy. Carl along with Jackie look at each other in regretful worry, as they walk towards Jim's tent.

?I remember one dream. It?s midnight and there are people around me praying on the beach. I?m wearing a white dress and turban and I can hear the ocean nearby, only I can?t see it. I am sitting on a chair, a kind of throne, with antlers fastened to the back. The

“His uncle pointed a warning finger. Don’t get saucy now, mister. I know paper dolls when I see’ em” (133). This tells us how children change their dreams when they are discourged by others, especially adults. Furthermore, children pursue what they have been taught and the kind of personalities they contract with every day, which can also influence and destroy their inner intentions and dreams.

Children’s stories are usually simple tales with clear life lessons meant to help make kids think, without overwhelming them with complicated words or symbols. While “The Dream” is a story marketed towards children, the author, Arnold Lobel, managed to make it a piece that is beneficial to children and adults alike. Lobel included events that make the reader ask questions that have been the basis of several well-known philosophers work, yet made it simple enough for anyone to understand. The most profound question this story presents is “How do you distinguish reality from a dream?” Many people have experienced the feeling of waking up from a vivid realistic dream and wondering if they’re truly awake. The majority of people answer this question using rationalism and the famous philosopher, Descartes’, idea of “hyperbolic doubt”. This story gives a clear example of these ideas and how they are used.

The dream always opens with the same scene, where I find myself hovering over a body. All around me is darkness with a sliver of moonlight that landed upon the silhouette. I acquired an eerie feeling, along my arms are goosebumps, my hair standing on end. The figure below me moved ever so slightly as it’s chest rose and fell with each breathe. As if it was sleeping and woke up from a long nap, it slowly fluttered its eyes and became aware of its surroundings.

While her description is based on her personal experience, her flowery language and use of imagery reveal her emotions beyond a simple statement of what she witnessed. She describes the fire and the rocket, “two gigantic wings” and “an upturned candle,” in such a way that showcase their majesty. The fact that man created this overwhelming sight speaks to his utter dominance. Man does not cower in the presence of such intense fire and smoke; rather, man is the creator and controller of these

“ Let’s Go,” I said very quietly. As we walked to the center of the road where we could get a good glance at what was making the noise, we spotted a soldier. The soldier was drunk swinging a sword against the bricks of the houses causing sparks. “ Oh No!” he’s going to cause a fire !

The article “In the Dreamscape of Nightmares, Clues to Why We Dream at All”, written by Natalie Angier, introduces various types of insight on nightmares and the reasons behind why they occur. Nightmares are dreams, able to jolt you awake. Although few suffer from nightmares so terrifying that help is sought, dreams are a universal human experience. A majority of our dreamlike states are spent negatively. As a result, numerous people have studied dreams and discovered that there may be reasons behind the existence of nightmares and dreams overall.

At the fifth year, the dreams began to take a darker turn. Shadows would awaken me to headstones, staring me down in a graveyard, but when I tried to run, my legs were iimmovable, heavy in quicksand. This creepy dream haunted me, especially when I thought I was awake, but was still dreaming.

Growing up everyone has experienced dreams, but in this exploratory essay I am going to break down dreams on many different levels to form a better understanding of why it is we have them. Throughout my years of dreaming I have always wondered why do I have dreams, why do I dream about certain people, and why do I have dreams some nights while other nights I don’t have any along with many other questions. How is it that our brains can make these very realistic depictions of our real life, and transfer them into a memory as we wake up? Another very peculiar aspect of dreaming is seeing people or places that do not look familiar to us at all. Throughout my research I have discovered the answers to these questions, and many other aspects of dreams. While I was searching for answers to my questions I found that there is a lot more to learn than I originally thought. I developed even more questions to feed my research along the way.

Everyone in the world has had at least one dream in their lifetime. Most people don’t think much about the dreams they have, unless they are recurring. Most people today wake up from a dream or nightmare saying, “thank heaven that was a dream,” or “too bad that was just a dream.” Many times these dreams or nightmares have more meaning than we think.

When I was about six or seven I would have a few reoccurring dreams. One of them involved a red truck. The truck would be driving down the road beside my house and it was on fire. The truck was speeding and

Dream symbols can serve a similar function. However REM dream symbols can not be controlled. Ludic symbols can be controlled in the service of the patient’s needs. In fact selection of the representation becomes throughout the latency years, an early portal for interpretive intervention and informed input by a therapist. The child therapist can participate in the selection of symbols that will lead to unconscious content by asking about dream content, turning dream drawings into puppets to use in stories, and patient recognition clay modeling to be used into dioramas. A second portal opens at the age of eight, when abstracting capacities gain strength. Then, associations based on the intrinsic characteristics of things described can be generated in response to a therapist’s request that the child expand on a manifest reference. Remembrance of repressed stresses and things past come to light. Further understanding of the role of ludic symbols in providing therapeutic leverage during child therapy will be discussed during the following description of the developmental stages of ludic symbolism from birth till the end of the latency