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Short, but possibly interesting?

Last night I was about to leave for a party when a couple of guys came over to my friend’s apartment and bet my friend 20 dollars that he could not eat 2 plain slices of bread in under a minute. I was obsessed with proving him wrong but we had no bread and had to leave for the party.
I went to bed hours later and the only thing I dreamt was winning this bet. It was a very detailed and vivid dream that began with us going to 7-11 and buying wonder bread and ended with me collecting the money (the bills were old 20’s not new ones). I woke up and could not remember if that had really happened or not. I had to call my friend and ask.

Has anyone ever had a dream that was just a realistic continuation of events of the prior day? I know that certain theories regarding dreams understand them as the byproduct of our psyche’s integration of experience into memory… perhaps my dream combines that idea with Freud’s conception of dreams as wish fulfillment.

i never had a three hour class fly by so quickly (and I've had a number of thoroughly enjoyable 3 hour classes). i am enjoying what we are learning and looking forward to delving deeper into the theories of Jung and Freud. when i was 13 years old i picked up Freud's totem and taboo and thought he was the hippest thing... then AP psychology senior year of high-school turned me off of it. I'm looking forward to revisiting his work in an academic setting. in my experience, the liberal arts type classes give him for more credit than the sciences... maybe its hard science's obsession with empirical evidence...
I'm also eager to see how Jane Eyre will fit into our study of dreams.
i was so excited about listening to Bob Dylan in class and wish that we could have devoted just a bit more time to him. i read in a biography of him that he always considered himself to be a poet first, musician second (yeti guess some would hesitate to even make such a distinction).
i look forward to geting to know everyone in the class better, including our professor.
the blogging is actually an interesting experience for me because it forces me to diffuse the work assigned to me in class and not leave it for last minute (maybe)
the "anonymity" of the blog is interesting... i find myself jotting down my initial guesses as to who belongs to which blog.... and it brings up some interesting questions, like if i were to have a dream about a classmate- would it be appropriate to share?

I find myself geting frustrated with Freud, his work seems to lack any sort of scientific basis... or rather it has one that is all of Freud's own invention. So, while the conclusions he makes about his patients' dreams seem so outlandish, i don't have as hard a time accepting them as I do accepting the way in which he came to his conclusion. He takes too much for granted in the method of interpretation. The leaps he makes are unbelievable, not because of how far he jumps, but because he doesn't seem to rely on the laws of gravity to make them.
In class, when we each critiqued an interpretation made by Freud the criticism seemed the sharpest when he said things like "clearly..." and "obviously..." and continued to allege something seemingly absurd.
(...to be continued...)

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