Reflection About Dreams

Before a lesson “teachers should identify and clarify unknown words… They should be pronounced, defined, and made visible so students have the knowledge base to derive meaning from what they are attempting to decode and comprehend” (Fite, 2002). Fite (2002) states the importance for students to define new terms in their own words in connection with examples they thought of which connects the two in order to construct meaning from print.

I gathered student written inventories and held personal interviews and conversations with students and their families in order to help my students grow and mature in their vocabulary usage. This information told me they value who they are and what motivates them so I could design innovative practices and utilize proven methods of vocabulary instruction that promote learning for all my students.

Dream content reflects aspects of waking-life experiences. After memories are made, they are often fragmentally merged with other information to construct larger, holistic dreams. Autobiographical memories are predominantly represented in dreams in comparison to episodic and semantic memories. Among various characteristics from waking-life experiences such as places, people, and events, emotions are highly incorporated into dream content. There is also a decreasing relationship between the cognitive demand of an activity and the frequency in which that activity occurs in dreams. Dreams tend to include material from experiential memories and events from the preceding day as well as experiences from 5-7 days prior. The recurrence of memory content in dreams seems to support the hypothesis that dreaming helps with memory consolidation, or particularly the content which is reflected in dreams.

Adding an additional ten words to her personal sight word list, Lauren’s close examination of each word impacted her fluency. By skipping the words, government and moccasin and pronouncing prairie as parrie and tropical as topic each time they were presented, Lauren indicated that fourth grade was at the end of her instruction level.

Give the student this list of words and have her go through the process of labeling and breaking the words into syllables.

The best part of a long, hard-working day is when you finally get to lay in your bed, close your eyes and let your imagination run free. As you sleep your mind takes you to another place far away from the real world. You begin to dream. Over the night, you may have several dreams. In the morning, you may wake up and wonder what your dreams were suppose to mean for you and your life. By analyzing your dream, it "gives a true picture of the 'subjective state'-how we really feel about ourselves-which the conscious mind cannot or will not give" (Wietz 289). In order to find the meaning of a dream, you have to pick out the most important symbols and define them. But you may be wondering what exactly is a symbol?

To many people, dreams are the thoughts that occur while sleeping, having almost mystic qualities. For millennia the significance of dreams has escaped even the brightest of philosophers and intellectuals. Many people have speculated about why people dream and what meanings the dreams have but in recent times two theories have gained credibility in answering those questions. The first theory is Sigmund Freuds and the other is known as the cognitive theory of dreams also known as biological determinism.

Both Freud and Jung provided important and interesting theories on dreams; encompassing their functions, their roots, and their meanings. Freud looked at dreams as a result of repressed memories, particularly repressed sexual memories from our childhood. Jung however, believed that dreams delved beyond sexual repression during younger years, to other problems, be it trauma, anxiety etc. Jung also believed dreams changed predominately through middle adult years, while Freud believed the opposite. There is little empirical evidence to reinforce either Freud or Jung’s theories, however, their contributions to the study of dreams in psychology cannot be lessened or denied.

What Dreams May Come is a movie about life, loss, death, afterlife and rebirth. The film explores the emotions evoked by a variety of characters when they are faced with coping with tragedy and death. It also delves into the manifestations of heaven and the variety of forms heaven takes in the minds of different people.

Students need to read and discuss the list of newly created words provided by the teacher (selfie, app, couch potato, etc.) deciding what makes these new words so appealing to become new words. The students in Joseph’s group may then choose to use an online source such as fakewordgenerator or their own creativity to develop 3 new words and items for their group.

When student’s partner read the circle unfamiliar words (7:35). This allowed for me to bring in knowledge about how they might find the meaning of that unfamiliar word. It showed them another strategy they can

While reading all these stories that we either liked or disliked, we also had to list and define words we were not familiar with. I felt it was beneficial for us to define unfamiliar words because in the past I didn’t always take the time to look up the meaning of words I wasn’t familiar with. This was beneficial to me because it helped to broaden my

Thesis Statement: Dreams are successions of images, emotions, and sensations that occur subconsciously during sleep.

In the novel, Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee, the magistrate’s progressive, non-linear dreams are a parallel to his growing involvement with the barbarians and his growing distaste for the empire. The great psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud said, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious.” In every dream there is a hidden meaning and when the reader starts analyzing the magistrate’s dreams he reveals that he is oddly attracted to the barbarians and knows he should not get involved and it will be a trial to get close to them.

Freud considered dreams to be nothing more than subconscious wishes of violent or sexual nature. But what is the true purpose of our nightly hallucinations? Is our subconscious telling us cryptic messages about our lives? In this reflection, I will be analyzing my personal experiences with sleeping and dreaming over the course of two weeks. I will also be discussing the connection between sleeping and the effect it has on one’s health. There are many psychological issues that plague society today. With the CDC (2015), reporting an increased number of children ages 12-17 experiencing major depressive episodes, and only 41.2% of those children receiving treatment for their depression. It’s no wonder why in 2014, 9.4 million adults ages 18 and older have had serious thoughts of suicide (US Department of Health, 2015). According to Glucksman (2014), patients who have a disposition for suicidal intent are more likely to have dream relating to disappointing people, rejection, failure, and self-directed violence. So, perhaps our dreams could be the door to finding the real root of societies psychological problems.