Milquetoast

The activity that we did in class with the Kafka stories helped enlighten me on how we are going to project what we have learned regarding dream theory onto literature.

Since I got back from my "Manifest Destiny" trip across the continental US, I have been haunted with dreams of my ex-boyfriend.

It seems that J. Allan Hobson seems to think that he can shatter philosophy and the questions raised therein.

I haven't been remembering any dreams, maybe I'm putting to much pressure on myself to remember them....or maybe it's because of a new sleep patern that I have been forced into, having to get up in the morning hours before I am used to....but anyway, heres the only one I have retained in over a week....nonsense..

Description: (Whole folio) The fourth vision; Nebuchadnezzar's dream about the tree that reaches the sky, and the vision of himself grazing, {Daniel, chapter 4]. The king is standing in fine garments, holding a sword, in a building with decorative pilasters and crowned by crenellations. The smaller figure of Daniel, wearing an ankle-length gown and cloak, stands with his with his arms outstretched towards the king, explaing the meaning of the dream

Title of Work: Silos Apocalypse
Author: Beatus of Liébana, commentator; Dominicus, scribe; Nunnio, scribe.
Illustrator: Petrus
Production: Spain (Silos), 1109
Language/Script: Latin. / Visigothic script

Artist: RAFFAELLO Sanzio
title: Jacob's Dream
Date: 1518-19
Type: Fresco
Location: Loggia on the second floor, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

Diagram of the brain
c. 1300
Illumination on parchment, 21,7 x 14,2 cm (whole page)
University Library, Cambridge
I thought this one was interesting because of the studies we have done on the intricacy of the brain. Here the brain is depicted with only 5 centres, two of which are for the eyes.

This is the first real narrative dream that I have had this semester. I have been trying different types of dream recall, but all I have been able to retain are small dream segments.

The Dream:
I was at some kind of social gathering at my high school, but it was actually taking place at the middle school I went to. It felt like a reunion, but everyone was the same age that they were when I last saw them.

Dadd, Richard (1817-1886)
Titania sleeping. 1841. Photo: Gérard Blot.
Location :Louvre, Paris, France
Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

FUESSLI,JOHANN HEINRICH
Titania caresses Bottom with the donkey's head, 1793/94. Canvas.
Location :Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Photo Credit : Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

Phrenological head made from a skull, 1815-1900.

George Henry Lewes would have been the Hobson of his day...had he had the scientific backing that Hobson uses as a stronghold. Lewes starts his piece withthe statement "we must try and discover what the action of the brain would be under such conditions as are present in sleep," which is exactly what Hobson strives to understand. Lewes lived as a philosopher until the year 1853 when his course of studies became scientific, which actually led to his abandonment in metaphysical beliefs, just as modern neuroscientists believe if they could know EVERYTHING about the brain they could falsify all testments of the transcendent.