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    “I have a dream’, the words of Martin Luther King jr rang out over the crowd, ‘that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their characters.” King continued on to deliver one of the most profound speeches of the 1960s, creating a movement that swept the nation. He was one of many people who understood the power of dreams and the potential they had if brought about. I believe that dreams have the

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    article, named “Dreams: Why do we dream?”, was written by Hannah Nichols in February of 2017, and it was published on Medical News Today. In the article, the author gave some fundamental information about what are dreams, why do we dream, what do dreams mean, why are dreams hard to remember. A dream is a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. It is thought that everyone dreams between 3 to 6 times per night, and each dream usually lasts

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    Hopes, Dreams, and Goals [A] Something many people hear in their lives is to not give up hope. This seems like a simple concept, but the actual action of having hope through difficult situations may prove to be harder than originally thought. [B] Hope is a powerful idea, only fully being understood in the hardest of times. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Secret Life by Walter Mitty” by Moses Ma show and describe the adventures of a man named Walter Mitty, who not only

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    A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntary in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Dreams can mean anything. They can mean something for anybody, someone else, or just imagination. What a person dreams in life is usually different than sleeping dreams. Shakespeare’s play, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” is represented of dreams in historical and modern theories. According to Aristotle, he explains that he thinks dreams are just causes and not

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    The Dream Of A Dream

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    her dream, she was no longer in the church. Dream Fianna had just reached the market in the village square with her sisters and the cart. Scouring the marketplace for the shawl maker, the girls were approached by a middle-aged woman leading a bedraggled nag attached to a cart stacked with knitted goods. Laboriously, the lady plodded along, dragging her left leg. Dream Fianna smiled shyly at the woman. This wasn’t part of the lesson, Fianna told them. I never met this woman in the VRC. Dream Fianna

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    Lucid Dreaming A lucid dream is one in which the person dreaming knows that he or she is in a dream, does not wake from it, and feels in control of what is happening in the dream. Researcher Paul Tholey experimented with the induction of lucid dreams in experimental subjects in the 1980s, and wrote that he developed techniques for inducing lucid dreams that had first been tried on himself in 1959 (Tholey 875). One of these techniques was called the “reflection technique, and his experimental subjects

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    The Significance and Meaning of Dreams Dreams are an experience that we all share as human beings, yet are also completely unique to each and every one of us. For these reasons, dreams have puzzled man since the beginning of time. Around the early 1900’s, a man by the name of Sigmund Freud pioneered the psychology of dreams through many of his theories. His ideas are a milestone in dream psychology and are still used today. As dream psychology developed, more and more theories were proposed and we

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    Freuds Interpretation of Dreams

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    discontents, dreams, psychoanalysis and the unconscious. For this paper, I will be discussing Freud’s fundamentals of dreams, what dreams represents, how dreams are constructed and its significance while paying close attention to the following areas of dreams, manifest and latent content, condensation and displacement, and censorship and repression. First, let examined the definition of dream according to Sigmund Freud “dream is the disguised fulfilment of a repressed wish. Dreams are constructed

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    Every person around the world has dreaming about something once in a while. When they sleep, they will dream sometimes. A lot of people think that dream is an illusion which is made by our brain because that is our desire. It is just like poll that conducted by Newsweek, a major 43% of Americans believe that dreams reveal unconscious desires and wishes. However, there are also people who think that dream is an event which will happen in the near future; whether that is on tomorrow, on day after tomorrow

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    Everyone has a dream no matter how high or low the person aims. Dreams can affect life in the future or the present and help get through life with a goal to reach. Langston Hughes expressed this affects in his poem ‘‘Dreams.’’ Langston Hughes showed a real life experience with imagery when a person is struggling with life but his dream makes him get through the hard work and any problem that he has. Hughes used imagery to show that life need a dream to have a reason to live. Everyone in life

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