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Theories of Dreams and Reality

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How do you wake up everyday and dismiss some forms of seeing and hearing things (your dreams), and then go on to believe others? A. Book A life is a sequence of consciousness and unconsciousness. People often find their conscousness waking up in the morning after a mysterious dream considering it as an unconscious experience. Here, a controversy emerges that if a dream is real or not. Nusselder(2009) insisted that as we are capable of visualising complicated imaginations in our mind through a dream, however, Descartes, quoted by Nusselder(2009), maintained that imagination is no more than a supplementary tool for comprehension. B) A Journal Article Capps, D. (2008). Erikson’s Case of the Theological Student. Pastoral Psychology, 58(4), pp.325-335. One of Capps(2008)’s patients during an experiment, he described his dream caused mental discomfort and a feeling of horror. In his dream, he could see a big empty face and it was so horrifying that even if he had have been acknowledging that he was in a dream, he could not have helped becoming terrified. Then, he could felt warmness in his hands recalling his grandfather who could have comforted him by holding his hands. However, after he woke up and when his consciousness came back, he suddenly realized all the warmness he had was immediately gone and could be able to see only his empty hands. On the verge of moment, when a feeling or touchness once thought to be real becomes intangible, the reality which people are able to sense through their sensory organs creates a criterion what to believe. C) A Chapter Within an Edited Collection The state of dream is sometimes thought to be mysterious and unexplainable because it is, time to time, hard to depict what there actually were. From a film, The Giver(2013), people living in the articulated community were required to use precise language as their feelings were restricted by the authority that words with vague meanings could not be a

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