Final Project!

My name is Courtney Sanders and the topic I chose for my blog project for Ms. Terrell is dream interpretations. The reason I chose dream interpretations as my topic is because I found it to be an interesting topic, plus it seemed like it would be fun to look into. The highlights of my blog are the interaction I did and my book. My interaction was interpreting my own dreams, which was fun to me. The book I read was also a highlight of my blog. The book was Wake and it was a good book, even though it was a slight confusing and strange. The things I would have done differently are to not have waited until the night before to do my blogs and interaction. Unfortunately when I waited to do my blogs it would cause them to be more difficult to do. I would have also chosen better sources and information because some I found to be boring. What I learned from this blog project on dream interpretations is that people can have the same dreams as another person, but no one realizes it. All dreams have some kind of meaning even if you do not think they do. I also learned that dreams are something that everyone experiences, even when they do not remember them. It does not matter if you say "I never dream" because in the end you do. My final opinion of my topic of dream interpretations is that dreams are still interesting to me because it is something that you have all the time. A person can dream of the same dream over and over again as time moves forward. I liked looking into this topic because it was something enjoyable and fun to learn about in me perspective. I would actually like to learn more on dreams because there are so many different interpretations for different dreams.

Death in a Dream

In the article "Death in a dream: Dream Dictionary and Dream Symbol Interpretations" is about death in dreams and how they relate to your everyday life. When dreaming and seeing your people dead, to warn you of becoming dissolute or sorrowed. If a family member or a friend call you in your dream to inform you that you lost someone, you will soon hear bad news in reality. "Dreams relating to death or dying, unless they are due to spiritual causes, are misleading and very confusing to the novice in dream lore when he attempts to interpret them" (Death Dreams). People normally think about their dreams all day trying to interpret them. During someone's dreams of death, there can be images of dying, dead, or their burial, and mistake it for their friends when its really theirs. A person may be warned of approaching conditions that will maintain the same until death itseld happens.

The article above helped with my topic because it deals with death dreams. Death dreams are the last dreams to interpret. This article is not a very good one, but it does give you information. In my opinion death should have to dream about. Dreams are scary especially when it comes to dreams about dying. This article only gives a few reasons for trying to interpret dreams about death.

"Death Dreams: Dream Dictionary and Dream Symbol Interpretations." Experience Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 April 2010. http://www.experienceproject.com/dream-dictionary/death-dreams.

Falling Dreams

The article "Dream Interpretation: Falling Dreams" by Jenni Kosarin, is about dreams of falling and their meanings for them. Dreams of falling can be referred to as a fallen woman, a fall of grace, or the fall season. Also, the dream can be refer to what might have happened to you within the twenty-four hours prior to the dream. An example is about a young married woman dreamed that she was falling from a building. Her metaphor is about her affair with a married man at her office. It did not just represent a fall from grace, she was afraid for her marriage if her husband found out. Sometimes dreams will have a certain "zing" to it, and you will automatically know the reference. Normally people need to take a dream apart piece by piece to understand the meaning. "Classic dream themes such as falling or taking a test don't qualify as archetypal because they're not forces within us" (Kosarin). They usually lie in our daily lives and experiences. A dream the therapist named Gayle Delaney suggests to everyone that you can ask yourself about: how you feel in your dreams when you are falling, do you feel terrified, do you feel helpless, do you feel out of control, or is it a sensation pleasant. A good strategy to help interpret your dreams is to write down everything you remember from your fallen dream; that will help you find meanings from dream dictionaries and the Internet.

The article above helped with my topic because it focuses on a certain type of dream and helps figure out the different variations of interpretations. Falling dreams are very common and when having them, your body has a reaction to what you see. When your body jumps and you wake up, it is because you witnessed a falling dream and they can be scary. Kosarin gives an example about the woman, but I do not see how that completely relates to falling dreams; therefore I think she could have used a better example than this one. Over all in my opinion the article was pretty helpful. If she would have put a little more information there, then I think the article would have been better and more fulfilling.

Kosarin, Jenni. "Dream Interpretation: Falling Dreams." n. pag. Web. 14 May 2010. .

My Dream Journal #6

March 28, 2010

I had another nightmare about Michael Myers chasing my except this time I was all by myself. We were somewhere different that I had never been before. It was like the first Halloween movie; it was the white house that Jamie Lee Curtis was babysitting Tommy. I was Jamie! He popped out from behind the couch and then I woke up. I was so scared. I dream of Michael Myers a lot.

Interpretation: The interpretation of this dream could be that I am afraid of life. That something is always getting in my way of having fun and be careless. I think something is holding my back from moving forward. That is why I dream of him so much.

My Dream Journal #5

March 27, 2010

I had a dream about falling off a building. I do not know how I got up there. I do not know how I did not make myself quit. I did not understand why I started falling to begin with. Normally I jump when I have a falling dream, but this time I did not. I kept falling and falling and falling and just never quitting. I wanted to but could not.

Interpretation: Falling dreams are quit common in everyone. This dream could mean that I am insecure about myself. I am an overwhelmed person and I think that helped a lot in my dream. My interpretation could be that something is making me overwhelmed and dysfunctional.

March 24, 2010

I had a dream about hanging with my friend Chelsea. We were at her house talking about our prom situation. We were making numerous phone calls to the people in our group for prom. Everything was confusing, but I woke up. I also had another dream when I went back to sleep and I was with my family. We were all sitting around my grandmother's kitchen table. Everyone was actually there for the first time; I loved it. My alarm clock started going off and I woke up from the awesome dream.

Interpretation: I think I dreamt of this because I had talked to Chelsea earlier that evening about our prom situation. I look at this is way, that it could have a good outcome.That we would get a limo for prom and that everyone would be able to be in it. The second dream I had could have had a great outcome. I love that I was with my family and that could go wrong. The interpretation for this dream could be that my family should be more important in my life.

My Dream Journal #4

March 23, 2010

I had a dream about going to hang out with my friend at her house but when I got there...My friend Jasmine walked out. We were friends at my old school, but she was killed in a car accident when we were in the fourth grade. We were sitting at our friend Jessica's house and we were sitting there catching up on things that had happened since we went our separate ways. Jasmine had started talking about how Heaven was and how she was doing plus her mother. After that moment my alarm clock went off and my dream ended.

Interpretation: The interpretation coming from this dream could be that I miss my friends. I think it could also mean that I wish Jasmine could be here today. Jessica was my best friend at my old school and helped me through everything and then we moved and now we have lost contact. In my opinion I think she was my helper in life and now they are both gone.