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    Our knowledge of the world is influenced by mental processes such as the semantic relatedness effect to connect different ideas to help form what we remember in our memory. This stems from learned prototypes to understand different targets. Prototypes are typical representations of a category that a majority of people would agree to. For example, when asked to think of a dog, people would think of a golden retriever instead of a Chihuahua (Ashcraft & Klein, 2016, p. 280). Semantic relatedness is

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    This dream was way beyond romantic, but of course it also has to be a little weird. It was like the manga I read called First Girl. In the beginning of what I remember; I was following a guy under water. When we had reached the destination, he had said a chant in front of two very large tiki statues and when he was finished they had opened up to a secret passageway. When he went in, I had waited for a few seconds and then I had said the following chant myself and continued into the passage as well

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    Dreams are what just creations of the mind; they carry us deep within time. They give us delight and an escape from reality. Then hunt is like the spirits of the past, embedding themselves deep within our hearts. The heart desires the fragment of imagination to which the character cannot overcome. It’s an idea that creates a spark which does not need to be comprehended by the mind or by reality. It creates a painting with no flaws, worth infinitely to the runner of the path going towards it. Like

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    that sits on the grand throne in front of the many guests gathered, have their eyes on me. Suddenly, I start breathing heavily, I try to grasp for air, but cannot. Why? Why does this place seems so familiar to me? It looks like I've seen this in my dream, but not in a good way. "Marchosias... Help me control my breathing." He does not answer back. Just where is he? I try to control my breathing myself, and it somewhat works, but my souls feels heavy. I try to look straight. The king stands with

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    of their dreams.” Dreams are really weird, but unique things that every human being does. Some dreams are taken literally, while others don’t have any meaning at all. Multiple people say that they don’t dream, which isn’t exactly true. They could just not remember them, which is normal because within ten minutes of waking up, 90% of your dream is forgotten. In our lifetime, we will spend about four years in a dreamlike state. Frequent questions people have over dreams are: Why do we dream? What do

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    that “most dreams are a sort of way for the unconscious mind to express its desire” (Freud). Sigmund Freud thought as dreams to be an idea that people strive for in life or the answer to a problem. He also concluded that dreams are “the fulfilment of a wish” (Freud). Freud thought as a dream to be something that people desire in life, or want to conquer in life. To him, dreams were something that could fulfill one’s life. However, Freud also noticed “punishment dreams and anxiety dreams” (Freud)

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    forget ninety present of all dreams. Sleep can produce a state of unconsciousness were the mind and brain apparently turn off the functions. Some people even have premonition dreams where they dream about something is going to happen. Like when Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his assassination and many victims of nine eleven had dreams warning them. So it seems that dreams try to warn you and get you ready. Showing the dreams-for-survival theory explains why people have dreams and why they are important

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    can be found in the chaotic but surprisingly revealing world of dreams. From the beginning of stanza sixty-three, Shelley continues the story of the Witch’s travels on her boat by contrasting the Witch’s graceful journey with the humanity of spontaneous, uncontrolled dreams. He compares these nightly adventures to navigating a “wide lake” full of dangers, and notes that humans are

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    Much research has been conducted looking in to the question of whether or not ESP actually exists, with dream ESP often being focused on in research, where an individual attained information during their sleep which has not come through any of the five recognised senses. Many of the reported cases of ---- of ESP has been deen to take to take place whilst the individuals is in some form of an altered state of consciousness and as dreaming is the most easily accesible altered state of consciousness

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    In the book Death of a Salesman Biff plays one of the biggest parts. You learn about his past through Willys memories, and learn that Biff was the boy everyone wanted to be. To him and Willy he had his life together, but in all reality he wasn’t the most impressive person. Biff eventually moves to the West to work and start a life. When he comes back you can tell that he’s a different person, he doesn’t talk to Willy or Happy the same way he use to. Throughout the book Biffs learns most of his life

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