Paulma, Christine L.
2013 – 44340
In the World of Dreams
A
reaction paper on the lecture about dreaming
Dreaming
is something that, we humans who experience it, find fascinating. It is
something that interests us since we ourselves experience it a lot. Many say
that it is just a state of mind and several think of it as something else.
There are people who research more about dreams and they have different
perceptions and explanations about what it really is. Some give meaning to it
through their own experiences while others approach it in a way that they study
others’ knowledge about it.
Personally,
the thought of dreaming always gets my attention. It may be because I dream
when I sleep and needless to say, I do daydream as well. Dreams could be good or
bad, happy or sad. You may find yourself waking up to a smile or sometimes you
find yourself in your own cry. Dreaming, to me, is taking oneself to an
adventure. Sometimes, the dream feels so good and so real that you would want
to stay in that state forever. However, they still are dreams and we wake from
them. There are instances when we wake up and when we go back to sleep, we
force ourselves to continue the adventure we were in. There are those who are
able to control their thoughts. They are sleeping yet they know that they are
in a dream. They control the picture that they see in their head and they get
to manipulate their thoughts. There are also those who experience shared dreams
wherein they have the same dream with another person. With regards to sleeping,
there are those who sleep talk and there are those who sleep walk. There are
also those who, in their sleep, wake up yet not able to neither move their body
nor open their eyes.
I
guess every one of us is able to experience this state. We all get our own
share of dreaming, of sometimes feeling to be in another world. When our dream
seems real, we sometimes think that it has happened already or it could happen
in the future. Sometimes, we experience déjà vu. When we experience something
that we think has already happened before, we every so often remember that we
had had that experience in our dream. There are instances when we try to give
meaning to the thoughts we have when we are in our sleep. At times, we take
them as signs or as guides in our future actions and decisions. There are some
of us who try to find the meaning of our dreams. I do so myself.
Our
dreams reflect what we have in mind. Others say that these are our
subconscious. Others declare that dreams are the things, the ideas, the
emotions that we don’t really entertain when we are awake. Studies have already
been made regarding the science behind dreams. In the movie “Inception”, they
have shown how dreams can be manipulated with proper knowledge and technology.
Even so, I still find dreams as something that is mystifying. I would like to
think of it as something that cannot be fully explained by science. Even then,
its mystery amazes me and gives me wonder that I would like to keep.
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