Well, I haven't blogged in...8 months? Wow!
We've been studying dreams lately in GT2, which I find incredibly fascinating. Over Christmas break, we all recorded our dreams and shared them in class when we got back. I had some really absurd hallucinations, and it was difficult to decipher some sort of meaning from any of them. Mr. DelRusso spoke to our class on Friday, and he warned us not to read too far into dreams because most of the time they mean nothing. Ms. Mystrena said we only have to share one dream, but I want to share two that I found a bit of meaning in. But before I share my own personal dreams, here's a quick recap on the four dream theories that we studied in class!
Option One: Freud
Sigmund Freud believed that dreams exist to guard our sleep, which is actually very violent and disruptive, with seemingly meaningless symbols, as well as to fulfill our unconsious wishes. His Psycoanalyatic theory states that dreams open up our unconscious mind and express hidden desires. We gratify our sexual or aggressive urges that we don't consciously acknowledge because they seem to horrible. Freud believed that people are born evil, but cover that up in our consicous state. When we sleep, a bit of this evilness is released and our secret desires are revealed.
Option Two: Jung
Carl Jung's views on dreams were somewhat corresponding to Freud's, but he rather believed that dreams occurred to restore psychological balance. Jung also believed that recurring dreams were the ones that held important messages. If a dream happens only once, it is merely nonsense, but one that happens on a regular basis has some sort of message to it.
Option Three: Adler
Alfred Adler viewed dreams as tools used to solve the problems we all deal with in the conscious world. He stated that dreams are a gateway to finding creative solutions to life problems, and that if we are unable to find a way to escape a problem during the day, we may dream of a solution at night, which could be a potential way to solve the problem or something absurd and illogical.
Option Four: Activation-Synthesis
The Activation-Synthesis Theory is the more biological approach to dreaming. It states that dreams do not have any significance at all, are are a by-product of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) neural activity. According to this theory, the brain is overwhelmed with neural activity during REM sleep, and the cerebral component creates a story from the random activity. The absurdity of some dreams is accounted for in this theory.
Now that we have a little background on the functions of dreams, here are two real life examples of dreams with educated analysis!
December 28:
I was in Madame Kim's French class, and she was showing us videos of this little toddler that she was obsessed with. Then Joy didn't feel good and Madame Kim was making a really big deal out of that, and kept "checking on her" and singing to her. Also, Joy had way too much stuff with her--she had a really large stack of books on her desk, a really huge puffy black coat, and a huge backpack.
Then a was all of a sudden going to my Algebra class with a bunch of my cousins, but it wasn't my actual algebra class. We were looking for room 305 and we couldn't find it. I don't know why I remember the number 305 specifically. We finally got there and the door said "305 - Mrs. Schweitzer," (Mrs. Schweitzer was a teacher from elementary school) and I knew it was the right place. There was no one in there, and somehow I knew it was because there was a bus drill. So we went searching for the buses, and finally found this gym-looking place where my brother (John) was. For some reasons my cousins had disappeared at this point. I asked John what I should do, and he said "I don't know, I'm staying after because I'm Lebonese!" Also, the whole time I was thinking in the back of my mind that there was FCA and I should stay after, but I kept looking for the bus drill anyway. I ran around for a really long time and then it somehow came to me that I should go to bus 211. So I got on the bus and my cousins were in there asking me where I was. There weren't any empty seats so I spent a long time looking for a seat. Then all of a sudden all of the people disappeared, and my friend Kailee appeared. I asked her "Kailee, are you going to FCA?" but she turned into a statue. Then I woke up.
Analysis:
Throughout the whole dream there's an ongoing theme of me looking for things. It seems like every time I thought I found something, I had another "quest" to travel, and I really wasn't as successful as I thought I was. This may symbolize goals in general. I may have been coming to the realization subconsciously that whenever I feel like I've reached the top, it's really just a breaking point and there's still more to go. While this seems like a sort of depressing theme, I think it's uplifting, to think that there will always be more for me to strive towards and that I'll never come to a point where I've done all I can do.
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January 3
We were going to the city for my birthday, and we saw Grace Doyle in the car in front of us, smushed against the window. She got out of her car and came into our car to go with us. Then she kind of ditched me and was walking around with my sisters. We all ended up in the bathroom with this lady with five kids, and three of them were adopted from Haiti. She kept talking really loudly on her phone and saying "I used to be a model." All of her kids kept running in and out of the bathroom stalls. Then she saw Grace's wallet, and tried to buy it off of her and Grace let her.
Then I was all of a sudden in homeroom, and Mrs. Tomasetti was teaching us "rainbow math," which was a new kind of math with arcs that you had to fill out arrangements of numbers in. I was really good at it, and all of a sudden we were at the Lockett's house playing games, and Mrs. Lockett said, "Let's do rainbow math!" So we did it and I was the only one who could do it. Then Mary said, "Mom, nobody likes rainbow math." So we stopped.
Analysis:
My dream had a mixture of positive and negative feelings. It began with Grace getting out of her car to join my car, which made me feel like others wanted to hang out with me. However, that thought was quickly destroyed because she decided she'd rather hang out with my older sisters than me. I'm not really sure what the part with the lady in the bathroom signified, except chaos, and the fact that the lady didn't seem to care that her children needed attention. I'm not sure what this means. The bit that took place with "rainbow math" gives the positive feeling of reassurance and self-confidence that I sometimes lack in my conscious mind,
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