My Dream Journal #3

February 20, 2010

I had a nightmare, which had the scariest person to me, Michael Myers. I dream of this and him a lot. He was following my friends and me around. Myers was just walking directly behind us; of course we ran. All of a sudden he disappeared. It was Taylor, Andrea, Chelsea, and Timothy just standing there looking all confused. Michael popped out from around the corner. I jumped wide awake, luckily it was morning and I had to get up anyway.

Interpretation: These types of dreams can occur several different times. In my opinion, I think I dream of Michael because he scares me and I watch his movies a lot. It is a thrill that I enjoy to do and have. I do not mind being freaked out by him; even if he scares me badly. I think that one day the dreams will end but I am not sure when. Maybe I have these dreams because I am afraid of stuff that could happen in my future.

My Dream Journal #2

February 13, 2010

I had a dream, but it was also like a nightmare in my eyes...but it actually turned into a premonition. I was in a deep REM sleep, but that sure was not long because of this dream. I was with my boyfriend at the time and we had been together for seven months and I knew I really cared about him. We were riding in his car heading towards my house after a fun night. He looked at me and said, "Courtney it is over." I started crying and the funny thing is I woke up crying as well. Then Tuesday, it had happened.

Interpretation: In my perspective, I think this dream meant that I could not trust him at all. It was a way to know that something was going to happen, but I just did not know what it would be and like. For instance I had a feeling before the dream every occured that something was going to happen but it was something I did not want to deal with. Then the dream happened and everything changed. I think that the dream was meant for a reason.

My Dream Jounal #1

February 4, 2010



My dream was about dancing. I was at Linda Dobbins Dance Studio and I was there by myself and Linda. I was in a deep training session. She had me doing turns after turns, jumps after jumps, and even sit-ups after sit-ups. Then all of a sudden my dream changed and I was on stage doing a dance solo in front of a full audience for a competition. All I know is that I felt like I was on top of the world and that nothing could go wrong. My dream ended on that note because my mom came in and woke me up.


Interpretation: My dream could mean several different things. It could possibly mean happiness and cheerful, it can mean that something good is going to happen in my future with dance. Dancing is my life and it can mean that I could make dance in college with this dream. I think this dream is going to be something good in my future.

Freudian Interpretation of Dreams

In the interpretation of dreams, Freud laid out a formula to help interpret dreams and their meanings. The formula could help interpret one of the most confusing dreams. Freud's theory relays on the sen sore part of the brain which edits the dreams you have. Sometimes the powerful emotions coming from dreams, would wake you during the night because the fulfillment could not be bearable. "The sen sore transforms the dream content to disguise it's true meaning" (Freudian Interpretation of Dreams). Freud called dreams a desire, dream work. There a number of processes like: displacement which shifts the emotion from one idea to another, condensation which fuses together multiple thoughts into a single symbol, and symbolization and projection where dream work components join together to change and redirect dream thoughts and images into acceptable forms. The name of a real dream is the latent dream.

In my opinion this video explain a lot of various things. For instance the processes of interpreting dreams, plus there meanings. The video could have used a little more information then what was given. I think this video can help you learn about dreams because Freud was one of the first people to learn about dreams and things surrounding them. Overall the video was good, but like I said there could have been some better parts where more information could have been used.

"Freudian Interpretation of Dreams." You Tube. Web. 6 May 2010. .

Wake

The book Wake by Lisa McMann, is a story about a young teenage girl named Janie Hannagan, who can be apart of people's dreams. The story takes place in and out of the many different dreams. Janie's first dream to encounter, was when she was eight years of age; of course it was someone else's. It happened to be Luke Drake's dream about being on the field playing football naked. Janie did not know what to think except what is happening, why me. The dreams that she kept being involved in started becoming weirder and weirder. Mrs. Hannagan was not a good mother because she never was around to help Janie, she was always to drunk. One day, while Janie was at school, a snobby girl, named Melinda Jeffers tripped Janie on her way to a seat on the bus. She arrives home and her mom is passed out on the couch and Janie instantly falls into her mom's dream.
Janie was introduced to a new girl next door named Carrie, who throughout the book maintains as Janie's best friend. Melinda Jeffers scoots her way into being best friends with Carrie. The funny thing is, Janie gets to be apart of Melinda's dream while being at Carrie's birthday party. As Janie got older, the more dreams she became apart of. On September 6, 2005, at seven thirty-five, Janie was on her way to school and came across Cabel Strumheller who was walking down the road, therefore, Janie told him to just pile into her car. They started becoming close friend, close enough for her to inform him of her biggest secret. The secret was about her being in other's dreams. Cabel, of course does not take it well at first but comes to his senses.
Janie works at the Heather Home for old people and Martha Stubin is a little old lady living there; they become really close. "Dear Janie, Thank you for my dreams. From one catcher to another, Martha Stubin, P.s. you have more power than you think" (129). Janie was planning on having a CAT scan to see what was causing this whole situation to occur. Cabel finally informs Janie that he is in love with her through one of his dreams; she remembers it when they wake up.
In my opinion I liked the book, it was easy to understand. Lisa used good imagery throughout the novel with all the different dreams Janie is involved in. For once a book kept me interested from start finish. I liked how Lisa threw in cliques, certain best friends, and even romance; it made the book more interesting. Wake is overall a good book, but you have to be a person to like confusing situations.
There are also negative things about the book. First is, I did not like how it jumped from different months and days all the time. While reading the book, I had to try and stay unconfused; which was hard, therefore I did not like that. There was also a lot of cussing that I found to be horrid. In my opinion, there should not have been so much fowl language for a book.

McMann, Lisa. Wake. New York: An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Divison, 2008. Print.

Interpretation of Dreams

In the chapter "Why Dream?" taken from The Interpretation of Dreams by Laurence M. Porter informs the readers about dreams and the different variety of interpretations. When a person's sleeping mind is awake, the dream will become more of a waking thought. "By saying that the mind has been temporarily crippled, it neatly avoids all the difficulties of trying to explain the inner contradictions and incoherence of dreams," (Porter). Regression and repression are the keys to Sigmund Freud's concept of the dreams. Porter emphasizes that we have all had immoral dreams. Immoral dreams can contain impulses repellent to our conscience; this shows that dreams have access to psychic material that happens to be absent from or minimal in the waking states of life. There are two rules of interpretation: the dreamer's associations to a dream should be considered as part of the dream and analyzed along with it; absurdity in a dream typically means that the dreamer is passing judgement on some situation that they find absurd (55).
The chapter above helps with my topic because it actually tells about the two different rules of dream interpretations. Porter has very good information to help, but some of the information seems to be repeated time and time again. I have always known their were immoral dreams but I never knew that everyone could have them. Sigmund Freud is the first person to ever interpret dreams; he has very good interpretations at that. This chapter gave details on Freud's achievements with dream interpretations, in which Porter used to help interpret his dreams and to help other interpret theirs. Porter does give some "gee-whiz" information that has nothing to do with dream interpretations as well as giving information about dreams that people already know.
Porter, Laurence M. The Interpretation of Dreams. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987. 48-57. Print.

Hidden Meaning of Dreams

In the video "The Hidden Meaning of Dreams" by Craig Hamilton Parker, who is psychic; he has written several books about dreams. "We all have a number of common dreams and for some reason they keep coming back time and time again," (Parker). Dreams never just end, they will always be there. You can learn about the unusal meanings and the psychological meanings of dreams. Plus you can also learn the spiritual meanings of your common dreams. People wonder if you can talk to the dead in your dreams; also premonitions for people seeing their future in their dreams as well.

The video helps understanding dreams and their meanings. I did not like how he was so boring while he was explaining everything. Parker did help with the psychic interpretations of dreams by letting the people know about the psychological and spiritual meanings. In my opinion, I think it is cool how dreams never just end, you could dream about the same exact thing for years and it never change. I think Craig could have used more information in his video that could have been more specific with greater details.
"The Hidden Meaning of Dreams." You Tube. Web. 8 Apr 2010..