In Liangs article he also had a theory about dreams. He had said "we hardly know of the existence of the inner world: we barely remember our dreams, and make little sense of them when we do". While looking at this quote i thought i was weired that he spoke about dreams and our mind as o ur inner world. I can agree with calling it our inner world because in our minds anything can happen, and it can sometimes seem so real while we are dreaming its as if we are in a different world that no one else knows about. Once again when i looked at this quote i thought that its crazy. I thought to myself that i dont have dreams so this doesnt apply to me. I beleiveded also that even when i have a dreams thats amazing i can remember it no problem. As usual i was proven wrong while we were doing our in class activitioes.
One of our major class activities for this unit was to create a dream journal. In this journal we would write our dreams as soon as we woke up. The first 2 days i didnt remember havig a dream. What would happen was that i would abruptly be woken up by my alarm, go pee and then by the time i came out i just didnt remember. I dont know how this is possible but i would remember my dreams for the first 5 minutes after i woke up, then ill just forget about them. The thing i first questioned about this is why? I can remember when i was youmg having specific dreeamsbut now i cant remember dreams. The reason i think this happens is because as we are growing up kids are taught to keep theire inside feelings to themselves. As a child i remember being able to sit theire with 1 toy and baing able to play for hours because i had a` big imagination that entertained me. Now as i am getting older i was sort of taught to be "down to earth" and keep my feelings to myself as if feelings are a sigh nof weakness, and imagination is a sighn of being immature.
Even though my first few attempts to remember and talk about my dreams were unsuccesfull i eventually did remember and wrote down some dreams. When i looked at my dreams after i had them i realized most of them were directly influenced by something i saw or was thinking about the prior day. An example of this is one day i had fallen asleep with the tv very loud. Oprah was playing on he tv, and i guess in my dream i eard it and had a dream that i was on her talkshow as a guest. I couldnt remember the little details of the dream but i remember that i was just answering her questions.
If i had to pull out a dream, that supported Liangs quote o would be able to pick almost all of my drems. One dream in which i think can be a great example is a weird scientific dream that i haad had. In this dream it was something about a alien ship landing over central park, and i had to get pumkin water to kill it and its creatures. When i thought about this dream i obviously remembered it as liang said rarely happens, But when i did remember it i made no sence of it at all. I mean how was i suppost to, it was so weird and out of this world. Actually if not for us doing these activities in class i wo uldve kept this dream to myself and just forgot about it, because i feel as if this dream was so absurd and crazy.
In conclusion i agree with Liangs idea about dreams. The only thing i can really say to counter his theory is why does it matter? I mean i understand that dreams can tell us about ourselves and entertain us, but in the end its just another figment of our imagination. I dont think as humans its very impoortant for us to embrace our personal dreams especially because i think that about 50 percent of them are meaningless. Still i can see if someone keeps track of theire dreams they can learn about themselves, and maby embrace themself in a different way.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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