“The Sleep” by Caitlin Horrocks basically tell you about the people in the small town of Bounty. Protagonist Albert Rasmussen wife was killed by a drunk driver on an icy road. In this town the people looked up to Albert Rasmussen because he was smart and decided to stay in Bounty after graduation. Albert had gathered the whole town over in his family room to have a discussion. This discussion took place “…before the cameras, before the sleep, before the outsiders, and the plan sounded as strange to us as it would to anybody” (Horrocks 104). This literally means that they didn’t have anything much technology and before they actually decided to sleep. In this short story “The Sleep” sleep is a symbol to many things such as hibernation, separation, death.…
He stamped out a kick-ball-chain next to my bed waking me up with another glossy leather loafer to the chin. “Let’s go, dummy! Get on the dance floor and ring my bell!”…
St. Peter had always laughed at people who talked about day-dreams,' just as he laughed at people who naively confessed that they had an imagination.' All his life his mind had behaved in a positive fashion. When he was not at work, or being actively amused, he went to sleep. He had no twilight stage. But now he enjoyed this half-awake loafing with his brain as if it were a new sense, arriving late, like wisdom teeth. He found…
While the child lacks intimate interactions with his father in “Those Winter Sundays,” the speaker in Kinnell’s “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps,” conveys how comfortable his son, Fergus, is when interacting with him. The speaker begins by telling us about his son’s habit of waking up, not when loud sounds are produced, but when he hears the noises his parents make while making love. He describes that his son “will wrench himself awake / / and make for it on the run,” (8-9) in his haste to get to their bedroom. Fergus eagerly seeking out his father displays the affection he carries for his dad.…
There are three ways that sleep is measured by using, EEG- Electroencephalogram, EOG- Electrooculogram, and EMG- Electromyogram. In order to measure sleep they use EEG, EOG, and EMG to categorize the sleep stages.…
× sleep: most vulnerable, innocent and yet prone to nightmare and hidden desires and fears; the dark, unconscious, unknown, uncontrolled and yet necessary realm of experience…
In the wee hours of the morning my life is the embodiment of a living, breathing dichotomy. Awakening with a wry little smile on my face, I knew I had dreamed of the river, big brown trout, and sweet 3wt bamboo rods. My body screams – “Where’s the coffee”, while my brain questions the sanity of getting up this early on a Saturday. Oblivious to the cacophony, the hairs on the back of my neck tingle. Betraying logic, they forewarn that this pre-dawn moment was the premonition of a great day ahead.…
In the 1970’s, the popular song Dream Weaver by Gary Wright was released. The song depicts the singer requesting a “Dream Weaver” to grant him a dream that will fulfill his fantasies, help him forget his worries, and get him through the night. However, unlike the popular song, there is no supernatural force, or “weaver,” that grants dreams. Dreams are not arbitrary, enigmatic forces that are only obtained by being alongside the high status of gods or granted from some power. In actuality, dreams are psychological structures that are natural responses to external stimuli, conflicts, and moods. Their content can be explained and interpreted through an understanding that sensory stimulus, experience, wish fulfillment, and one’s emotional…
Dreams play an important role in our lives. Dreams are an opportunity for us to experience a life with no limitations. However, not all dreams are meaningless fiction. Sometimes, a dream can be identical to everyday life. In some cases it is extremely difficult to tell the difference between a dream and reality. Throughout history, studies show that dreams provide an insight into one’s own self. Dreams can show us who we really are and what we want out of life by tapping into our subconscious mind. They have the ability to be inspirational, life changing, and revealing. Certain aspects of the story “Young Goodman Brown” lead us to believe that he is merely dreaming.…
He didn’t say anything as he slowly walked towards me, as if i was a rabid animal that might bite his head off. He sat on the corner of my messy bed in silence for a few moments until he broke it by saying,…
“Well,” I said. “That was nice knowing. I’m gonna go out for a while, I’ll back by midnight. Don’t you dare worry about be Tom!” I warned him. He gave me an amused expression and said: “Ok, take care of yourself and keep your hood up!” He said as I walked back into my room.…
“I said where is Mary?!” He’s suddenly gotten worse the past couple of days and I worry that his time is coming. Just the thought of this makes my eyes water as I bite my lower lip to prevent my tears from falling. I put my hand over his in regret of letting time pass, time that I did not spend in his presence. The hand that once appeared to me as big and manly now just appears to be a weak and fragile body part, but to me it is more than that. To me, it is a powerful symbol of bravery, determination and experience.…
Dostoevsky’s short story “Dream of a Ridiculous man”, describes the difficulties of the main character in finding the meaning of life. He is troubled with the idea that life has no meaning and that science and logic only exist, analogized as the “head” in relation to the meaning of life. The story begins with the character believing that nothing in his life matters. He is set on killing himself until one night changes his perspective on the meaning of life completely. He begins to believe that science and logic are not enough to make people happy. He decides that people need something to believe in order to make living life worthwhile.…
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I wake in the morning, I feel like nothing. This is where my playtime begins. I sleep on a big, white, fluffily cloud. The thought of abandoning my warm cozy nest for the big cold world makes me want to curl up into fetal position and sleep my life away. I tell myself I can get up in just a minute while I listen to the birds faintly chirp outside my window. I like the way the morning sounds. I pretend that it is summer and get high off my nostalgia. I let my imagination wander in the cob webbed memories of warm weather. My mind drifts off but I know how to catch it in the morning because it hasn't been awake long enough to run far.…