This piece of art is called "Dream maker." The subject of this weeks ELL Journal is dreams. Everyone dreams, but not everyone remembers their dreams or considers them important. Some people keep a "dream journal" by their bed, so when they wake up, they can record their dreams. How about you? Do you think your dreams are meaningful, and should you pay attention to them? Have you had any recurring dreams - the same dream, over and over again? Do you remember your dreams, and try to interpret them?
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Journal Question #29 (2010-2011)
This piece of art is called "Dream maker." The subject of this weeks ELL Journal is dreams. Everyone dreams, but not everyone remembers their dreams or considers them important. Some people keep a "dream journal" by their bed, so when they wake up, they can record their dreams. How about you? Do you think your dreams are meaningful, and should you pay attention to them? Have you had any recurring dreams - the same dream, over and over again? Do you remember your dreams, and try to interpret them?
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Dream is an interesting thing. My psychology teacher told me that dream is usually that what people wanted to do in their real life. Once i dream that I get an A in Ell class. I interpret the dream. i think it says Ell is an important and Mr Griffin is a nice teacher. I should work hard in that class, and he will give a good grade.
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ReplyDeleteBench:In my opinion the dream sometime means something but some one after they have the dream at night but after they wake up they will forget it soon ,I sometimes remember the dream but I seldom take it serious,because I don't trust it ,but just like I said before it sometimes means something because you will find it happens in the past year and some will happen in the future~I try to remember my dream because it's interesting but I never take serious!
ReplyDeleteA few years ago, all my dreams were about killing people or being killed. Every night before I went to bed, my biggest wishes is getting away from nightmares.
ReplyDeleteTinTim!!!! I totally disagree what your psychology teacher said. I never want to kill people or be killed. That will be horrible.
On the contrary, I would rather believe dreams are always opposite with what will happen in the real world.
I remember I saw an article in the magazine, which said having dreams is a beneficial way to release pressure. But why I always have some weird dreams?
Fortunately, I don't have such kind of dreams any more. Actually, I don't remember any of my dreams these years. Maybe because I am busy, I am too tired to memory those dreams.
I think dream is a really funny thing. I heard that the dreams in the early night would be real. And the dreams in the late night would be opposite. I don’t really believe that, but lots of people in China say that.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, I can remember my dreams, but most of time I cannot remember them. I really want to know why I cannot remember my dreams, but I know I did dream.
There are lots of books in China write about dreams. We can check the things that are in our dreams, and we can find out what the meaning are. In my personal opinion, I don’t think dreams are meaningful. So, mostly I don’t pay attention to them.
Dream is a thing that we can not exactly believe it, but we also can’t say we don’t believe it at all. Sometimes it would become real. Anyway, dreams are very mystical.
Dream is always as an enigma for people.Psychologists did lot of experiments for research the effective between subconsciousness and dream, but they are still only some hypothesizes.I have read a book that is called Interpretation of Dreams, it is wrote by Sigmund Freud who is the most authoritative about the dream. And there was a movie which just have been published recently, it was Inception. It talk about some guys use their dream to let some eminent people are controlled. In the movie they give us some definition about the cohere between subconsciousness and dream. They said subconsciousness cannot be controlled by people's subjective consciousness which is our mind, but subconsciousness can effect our mind, but dream is under subconsciousness controlled, that is why they use dream to steel confidential firm form the company.
ReplyDeleteReally interesting stuff!!!!!
I seldom have a dream.But if I have dreams, they usually are some strange dream or nightmares.
ReplyDeleteLots of Chinese say that dream and real life,they are opposite.But I don't believe it.I think I have magic sometimes,I can dream a thing and it will happen in the future.And when the thing happened, I can remember I experienced the same thing in my dream! That sounds horrible.
The most interesting thing is that I dream the same dream every year!In the dream I can see myself and I am in a cube room.The wall is more and more close to me,then the wall start to far away from me again and again.My mother told me that a few people in my family have this dream.Does my mother.
Luckily,I have some sweet dream as well.But I am wake up before the end of the happy dream.That is so sad !!!!
Hope you have a sweet dream every night!
I think dream is an amazing thing. I think all the dreams mean something. They will tell me something is going to happen or remind me something I forget long time ago. Or some thought that I cannot say out loudly in my real life.
ReplyDeleteBut some of my dreams scare me a lot. I still remember a dream that appear when I was 5 years old. I dreamed about it for a week. I dreamed that there was a tsunami in my hometown. And I sit at the top of my house watching the water the water cover other houses. It just like the end of the world. I still can remember it clearly.
In my opinion, sometimes dream is a great thing to do. For example if I getting lost in a game, and then I have a dream, In the dream I thought I could win. After that dream, I found out I can do this, so I do this. And in that time, I win this person.
ReplyDeleteBut sometimes some dream means some bad things will happen. For example one day I got a bad dream, in this dream I thought, I could doing very well on that test, but after this dream. I took that test, and i after that test, I thought I'm doing not very well on that test. So sometimes some dream can cause some bad thing.
Some old people told me that dream is meanful for what's gonna happen. They said the dream is predict of the realistic live. They are not totally the same but they have some connection. Sometimes they are just opposite to each other. But I don't believe that.( Well, if I dreamed about something bad I will believe that.) My friends told me that if you think about something too much during the day, then you probably dream about it at night. I agree with that. I think about Tony( my idol) all the time some days so I dreamed about him. And sometimes I worried about my grade I dream about exams.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago, I read an article about dream. It is said that we can tell what our great-great-grandparents saw. Because we they saw something they remembered it. And the memories was stored in the DNA. And they we got it in our DNA by heredity. That's why we can know what they saw.
Why everyone write so much words about dreams? I feel a lot pressure to write the ELL journal.
ReplyDeleteI think dreams are really important for us, even the word can save our life. There is a story in the World War II, a woman dreamed his husband whose a soldier was hiding in a big house. She can remember every detail in the house even she can tell where a red chair is, where his husband is hiding. And then, she dreamed the house was collasped, his husband was under the collasping house. And the next day, she got a really strong feeling that push her to find his husband. Finally, she found his husband in a exactly house as she dreamed after seven days and her husband was saved. It's a real story that happened in WWII. So I always believe the dream is always means something that in your subconsciousness. We'd better to use the dream.
On the way to a mountain in the dead of winter, I dropped behind the group I was traveling with and got lost. To make matters worse, it began to rain heavily. The wind blew hard, and the blasted forest groaned as if in pain. And so overcast was the sky that night came several hours earlier than usual. Cold and frightened, I was trembling all over. All I could do was shout for help, but no help was forthcoming. The night became darker, the wind blew harder, and the rain poured down more heavily. I ate my last piece of food, a tiny piece of cake. Totally despaired, I was waiting not for miracle but for death. Suddenly, a thunderclap woke me up. A rainstorm was indeed raging outside, but I was grateful to find that I only had a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteAt 5:00 pm On Friday, I checked score about red socks yankees, It's 0-6.
ReplyDeleteSaturday night,I went to my homestay's daughter house,her told me red socks won the game!
I could not believe it!
anyway! congratulations!
Dream, I like dream. It's free,I don't need to pay any money, but I can get many different happiness in the dream.
There always say, what were you think in the day, those things will in you dream.
When I think a girl before sleep,than she will in my dream.
Dream alway put many different place, different time, different people, different things together. It's amazing!
I could not understand why this picture called "dream maker".
ReplyDeleteI always have a dream about great thing which will happen in future. I don't really pay attention to them but sometimes, if they are bad thing will remember it and try to interpret them. I also have the same dream, which repeats a lot of times.But when I wake up, I don't remember it clearly, just know that is a good thing or bad thing. However, some of my dream is true. I don't know why but when I watch a movie or do something like that, I feel it's very familiar.I think I have dreamed about it before. So, I think dreaming is good and if you have a great dream, after you wake you, you can feel a great day is coming.
ReplyDeleteI think dream is a magical thing.I think we should pay attention to them. It reflects what you are thinking about all day long.I think the dream is meaningful, many dreams are something good,something blithe.I think we should collect good part of our life. Dreams are part of them.
ReplyDeleteI don't dream often. But I remember one dream. It happens near the shore.It was me and father. we were enjoying the sunset.We both liked this beautiful prospect very much.This is a very happy and good moment ,it is worthy putting this dream into your small box of memory.
I think dreams that you have always can compare with your life. What ever happened in the real life can always transform to different ways to show up in your dreams. May be is something that you didn't even pay attention to, but will show up in your dream. Movie always use dreams as opening words. like main character always will have some weird dreams before everything happen, and they always can dream about future. So am i, i always can dream about future, like last night. I JUST DREAMED THAT I GOT A+ IN THE ELL .
ReplyDeleteI have a dream that I am always young. Then I will have enough energy to do everything whenever I want. Moreover， I don't have to worry about the old age during which I even can't take care of myself. I know that my dream will not come true. However， I think it is lucky that I am young now. So I will treasure my time， enjoy my life and try my best to do everything well.
ReplyDeleteThis art looks so bad. I would always forget my dreams when i wake up. But sometime i can remember dreams. If I was dreaming something that i thing it's good. Then i would be sad that it's just a dream. If i dream something horrible then i would be so glad that it was just a dream. Some people have asked me an interesting question: what language do you use in your dream? Well i can remember that i speak Cantonese in my dream and i never use other languages in my dream. I think that will be very cool if you do use your first language in your dream.
ReplyDeleteGood comments on dreams and dreaming, everyone! For those of you who don't think dreams are meaningful, read some of your co-residential students' thoughts on their dreams. One thing Teddy said interests me: my dreams mostly are without words; how about yours?
ReplyDeleteBy the way i don't like this pic. It is so ugly!! I dreaming everyday. Sometimes i dreaming during classes. But doctor said:" if a person dreaming everyday it's not healthy, because a person need the have a rest, if we dreaming is still use our body energy. Sometimes i use different languages in my dreams. I feel really tired after i dreaming, because sometime i dreaming i am a super man or others. It depends on what i am think during the day. I hit the bad dream so i don't like scary movie.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I remember my dreams, but in general I dont. I read in an article that we dream every night, but we can not remember all of our dreams.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid I was so afraid of have but bad dreams and my mom bought for me an object that you put close than your bed and you do not have bad dreams. It did not work, but helped me a little bit to sleep better. I think dreams are strange, sometimes I wake up thinking how can I dream something so wierd and I hope that the dreams that I have when I am sleeping never become true, because in general all the dreams that I can remember thay are bad dreams.
Also I think that dreams can tell us something, I dont what but I am sure that they have a meaning, so I would love to be able to figure out what my dreams mean. Since Christmas I started to dream in english and now I always dream in english, I think this means that I am learning a lot.
I don't usually remember my whole dream. Sometimes I would be able to remember part of my dream and sometimes I won't be able to remember any, but I would still have a feel that I dreamed about something. I've never tried to keep a dream journal, but I did tried to think about what i dreamed after I woke up. I don't think I have had any recurring dreams. Even if I did, I don't think that I would be able to remember them.
ReplyDeleteI don believe something about dreams, which is the dreams that you dream before 12 o'clock pm would come true and the dream you dreamed after 12 o'clock pm would come true on the opposite way!
By the way, I haven't had dreams for a long time, which is awesome! I can't sleep very well when I am dreaming!
I can remember what happened in a dream but I can't remember the detail, I can't see the faces from he people, the building or the weather. Nightmare can't wake me up, I always tripped by a stone, and then wake up. Tow years ago I had a dream is about I fell into a lake full of treasure. I'm not kidding. I hold as many gold as I can, then my left hand hit the table lamp......I woke up. It's four o'clock, that means I have to wait for three hours to go to school. I think this dream teach me do not be greedy, if I didn't touch the gold, I can enjoy three more hours laid on the gold. I don't have any recurring dream because I haven't got any continuous problems.
ReplyDeleteI think that dreams are really important. In my opinion is something that make us be happy. i think so cause during our dreams we can do whatever we want. No matter what it is, even is in true life is impossible during our dreams we can do it. We can jump as high as a skyscrape, we can travel wherever we want, we can even fly. Sometimes we dream true things. we can even dream something that it did happen to us and we didn't remember. Our brain is awesome. While we are awake we don't use all his power, but when we are dreaming we can even create a city just with our imagination. i thing that the dreams are important and i think that we should pay attention to them.
ReplyDeleteI think dream is one of the amazing things in our life.it's shows like real things.but it's always opposite to the real thing which happened.
ReplyDeletewhen i was young,near final exam, i always dream i got 1st at my class, but is not! and i asked my mother, she told me,dream always opposite.so i becoming afried dreams.
now i don't dream so much like when i was young,but i still wants i do some good dreams and make it true.