tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017/60 2007-05-26T02:32:29Z Dream Weblog Movable Type Enterprise 1.02 tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2693 2007-05-26T02:24:13Z 2007-05-26T02:32:29Z

I feel like the death music is playing ... pom pom pompom, pom pompom pompom pompom pom...lol...

True Romance I feel like the death music is playing ... pom pom pompom, pom pompom pompom pompom pom...lol I've been reading everyone's "closing of the blogs" entries, and I'm starting to feel sad... As much as many of us were complaining about some of the workload, the class was very stimulating, enlightening, and inspiring. We have really learned ALOT about dreams, we've met some really great people in the class, and this class was like a step toward analyzing yourself through your dreams. The blogs were difficult at the beginning because we were scarred to be exposed and many of us (as did I) did not remember their dreams. But, as with everything else, it is a process that is in need of practice. I hope life doesn't take a hold of us and we forget about this class...I would love to blog my dreams when "school is out...for the summer" (sorry digression lol) But, unfortunately, it will be very difficult when we are out and doing different things. Well, I will just say it now, then...I am going to miss this class, all of you, and even you Professor Tougaw!!! lol =) I just hope everyone does what they want to do after school ends (and many of us, as am I, who are graduating next week) and not forget to remember your dreams and use them for your own analysis. Good luck to everyone and it has really been fun working with all of you... Goodbye... =) Maria - True Romance =) tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2692 2007-05-26T01:22:07Z 2007-05-26T01:31:31Z

This was out of nowhere......

True Romance This was out of nowhere... I am at an office setting and ready to see the president of a company. I am in the waiting room and I am looking at a family, who is poor, with no food. I see the family's baby girl in a carriage and she looks malnourished, like she is in desparate need of food. I see a man selling pretzels next to me and I buy one for the little girl and handed it to her in the pink and white carriage. Instantly, she turns happy. I see how much she loves them, so I buy her more and I try to give them to her. However, he mother, and others, are trying to take them from me so I won't give them to the little girl. I am pulling them trying desperately to give them to the little girl. Then, the pretzals turn into socks and stockings, and I put my hand in to take food out so she could eat. Condensation!!! =) tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2690 2007-05-26T01:15:18Z 2007-05-26T01:22:02Z

This takes place at the second internship, but I think I had this dream in a different night from the first one (see Internship Process)......

True Romance This takes place at the second internship, but I think I had this dream in a different night from the first one (see Internship Process)... I am online, on a red carpet, with my best friend who I said is up for the internship in real life. We supposedly did something good, or won something - I don't remember. I think we solved something, like a math problem or something, I don't know. Anyway, the main guy (the boss) - this is actually a guy I know in real life who is a type of millionare - tells us to join him in an internship opportunity. My friend and I jump at the chance. We go and Natasha from America's Next Top Model (the Russian girl in the recent cycle) is the secretary. She is giving us free things, like fried chicken in a bucket (don't ask lol), and I remember dropping the bucket and everything falls out. She then comes up to me and tells me I am taking more than I am supposed to... The last image I remember, are ALOT of umbrellas in an umbrella container, and four were mind and I was trying to take them out. tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2689 2007-05-26T01:07:54Z 2007-05-26T01:15:09Z

I am not sure if this dream was one dream or two, so I am posting separately...it has similar properties though......

True Romance I am not sure if this dream was one dream or two, so I am posting separately...it has similar properties though... I am up for two internships: one is for the exact same job I have now (but in real life, it is not an internship); the second one is to work for a famous filmmaker. He is giving me the job to do advertising work (maintain sponsors) and I told him I would check if I could do it, but I knew I wasn't going to take it. (Btw, in real life, my best friend is up for an internship similar to the one described) I picked the second internship to have the interview first, and then I would have the first job (my real job) as my second interview. The first job (the job I already have) thought I was going to take the second one and were really mad. I remember the setting distinctly because it was outside my real job, where I am ready to go in, but I change my mind and go to the other internship. tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2687 2007-05-26T00:59:34Z 2007-05-26T01:06:59Z

I don't know what's going on - lol...

True Romance I don't know what's going on - lol Someone is stalking me and I almost kill him (I put a rod in his throat). But, he doesn't die, and I have to go to Court and testify against him, which makes me even more anxious. The setting is in a maze (like the one mice use) and it changes right away after he chases me into the outside of a Courtroom. When I testify, they try to blame it on me. I get very angry and go outside of the Courtroom and I am standing in front of a huge television - it looks as if the media is on the case also. All I remember is me being afraid after testifying, and then he comes after me once again. The whole dream is like a mouse maze, so what an appropriate setting! tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2685 2007-05-26T00:47:28Z 2007-05-26T00:55:40Z

At the end of the dream, I am sitting down and writing my dream...really weird...

True Romance At the end of the dream, I am sitting down and writing my dream...really weird In the dream, my friend at work (who has the same birthday as me) is at my house and we are both celebrating our birthday. The party is mainly in my house, but I remember there being another girl (a girl that my friend at work doesn't like in the dream) and she is downstairs at my grandparent's house (they live downstairs from me). This is a big celebration, but I remember I didn't want to go downstairs because the girl my friend doesn't like is supposedly dangerous. Then, I am told to take out the garbage, but I feel really uneasy because I know I am going to have to pass the dangerous girl downstairs. I descend down the stairs VERY QUICKLY to avoid a confrontation. I take out the garbage, but then I am still upstairs and I am still carrying the garbage in my hand. Some people from my job are there and I end with me at a desk writing down what has just transpired. Weird. tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2684 2007-05-26T00:37:51Z 2007-05-26T00:47:21Z

I had this dream last week......

True Romance I had this dream last week... Background: Last week, something happened for me to think about a friend I used to have. I don't talk to her anymore, but we were really really close from kindergarten up until I was about 18 (I think it was my first or second year of college). Something happened for us to drift apart and I stopped talking to her, and it was pretty sad because we've known each other for so long. My mother also knew her mother; we used to go out and eat, etc. In the dream, I see my friend with her mother. I am at a party, talking, drinking, having fun. I am sitting down and I'm telling my friend something and we start laughing hysterically. I stop suddenly, though, because I see my friend across the room, along with her mother, and they are just staring at me. I put my drink down, and when I turn again, they are gone. Then, I get an uneasy feeling in my stomache. tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2683 2007-05-26T00:29:00Z 2007-05-26T00:37:17Z

This was like a voice from the dead......

True Romance This was like a voice from the dead... Backgroung: My Godmother's husband died about a year ago (he was very young - about 35) and it was very sad for awhile because this is my first cousin's husband (we were very close). Everything, of course, is blurry in the dream. I keep walking, but in slow motion, and I just get a glimpse of people walking by, really fast. All of a sudden, Greg (my Godmother's husband) gets out of a metallic blue car with aviator sunglasses. He is ascending towards me, and brings forth his hand for me to shake it, which I do. I don't want to sound like a cliche, but it was really something like you see in a movie where everything is going really fast, and the only important thing is you and what is in front of you. Everything stops when you see something and this is the only thing that matters. This dream really got to me though, MOSTLY because it REALLY REALLY felt REALLY REAL. But, then when I woke up, I was like "woah". tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2605 2007-05-20T22:40:33Z 2007-05-20T22:47:30Z

Here's another chasing dream...oh yeah, it is in Rainbow again also...there has to be a pattern in all this lol...

True Romance Here's another chasing dream...oh yeah, it is in Rainbow again also...there has to be a pattern in all this lol So, I am in Rainbow again. There are multiples of aisles with clothes on hangers - more than there really are in the actual store. I am at the end of the store (this scares me because the exit is all the way at the beginning of the store - I am a bit claustrophobic in real life). I am looking at the shoes on the racks. All of a sudden, I feel as if though I am the only one in the store. This scares me even more. I look around, and after much noise, there is a sudden silence. I look at the shoes and then I look again towards the beginning of the store. And there is someone. I can't really make out his face, but I know he is coming closer. I try to go in and out of the aisles, hiding myself within the clothes so he doesn't catch me. All I keep thinking is I have to get to the beginning of the store, because I feel as if though I can't breathe. When I wake up, I realize someone was obsessed with me in the dream and it was all just a game. Scary... tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2604 2007-05-20T22:18:54Z 2007-05-20T22:30:19Z

I am glad it is all over....somewhat......

True Romance I am glad it is all over....somewhat... We all did really well, though. If we think about what we've had to do (essay, exam, webpage, blogs, conference, etc.), we finished everything and can honestly say we learned alot in this class. The web project, even though we had less time to finish it, really wasn't that difficult once you got the hang of it and played around with all the controls. The conference was extremely nervewrecking, but we've all done the topic of dreams for 2 semesters and as much as we thought we were nervous, I think we knew what we were talking about....hopefully...only Professor Tougaw could tell us if we knew what we were talking about...=) The web project and the conference, I feel, were the most fun out of the whole semester. The web project was fun because you got to use your imagination and creativity to build something others will look at. The conference was fun, after the 10 hours of nervousness, because we really all worked together...even though I thought there would be LESS questions...ahem...marwan...but I think we all handled it well, especially anthony and asif... Overall, I think people enjoyed it and learned something, and the reception afterwards was equally as nice. So, congratulations everyone --- you all did a great job (as did I lol =) ) And I'm gonna miss all of you!!! Good luck with whatever comes next!!! Maria (I am no longer anonymous lol) tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2080 2007-04-10T03:15:09Z 2007-04-10T03:32:44Z

All these second appearances...lol...I had this one while I had a fever also...I remember it like it really happened...does anyone get that?? Where the distinction between dreaming and reality seem to coincide a bit and you feel like a dream...

True Romance All these second appearances...lol...I had this one while I had a fever also...I remember it like it really happened...does anyone get that?? Where the distinction between dreaming and reality seem to coincide a bit and you feel like a dream actually happened??? Me, my father, my brother, and two of my friends are ready to go to a carnival (a Greek carnival my middle school has sometime in May) and my mother keeps calling me to warn me that I have to take everyone to the carnival. Then, I forget my keys. My guy friend keeps pulling my arm and forcing me back to my house to get the keys even though I feel that we can make it anyway. We make it to my house - in the dream, my house is a building my mother used to work in and I used to visit when I was smaller (I really remember this job my mother used to have because I was really young and she had to take my with her a couple of times - also it is next to my house). I try to go up the stairs to our apartment and I remember feeling very scared because I saw a cockroach before (another cockroach makes an appearance!). I still can't find the keys because I think a burglar took them...I don't know. In the building, though, there is a sort of celebrity type of holiday party - I think it is Easter, but it could be a Jewish holiday also, I am not so sure. Adrienne Rich and Edward Norton are there (what a weird pairing). I go and try to talk with Edward Norton, but he says he can't talk to me and he keeps pushing me away! (This is like the opposite of my other Edward Norton dream...) And then he says he can't talk to me because they are doing something religious. Then I wanted to tell him how much I liked him and he just leaves. Then, I remember not liking him anymore. =) I don't know if I like him so much anymore in real life also - another intertwining of dreaming and waking life... tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2078 2007-04-10T01:24:44Z 2007-04-10T01:49:35Z

I had these dreams all in one night when I was sick all of last week...I have never remembered this much in one night - I always remember only one dream from the night...maybe it was because I was really...

True Romance I had these dreams all in one night when I was sick all of last week...I have never remembered this much in one night - I always remember only one dream from the night...maybe it was because I was really really really sick with a fever...does anyone know if that usually enhances your memory of dreams??? First...I was supposed to go out to dinner with the family, but we were never getting there because everyone needed to go shopping first. So, I was stuck in a type of "Crate and Barrel meets Macy's" place and I kept going up and down these really really wide brown and white stairs. Second...I was taking the train to the Bronx, but I was really next to Shea Stadium in Queens (I don't like the Mets - I'm a Yankees fan =)). I was supposed to go on the train as a tutorial session (don't ask - I think I was supposed to learn how to drive this train). The train, though, became like one of those roller coaster things you find in time travel movies where it is really fast and you're in a white car with a glass case over you. Anyway, I was in one of those and we kept going past Shea Stadium trying to go to the Bronx. The platform was like a train platform, but the train wasn't the same. Third...I think we were in Honors class and we were playing a "Save the Last Dance" trivia game - don't ask...all I remember is Save the Last Dance lol Fourth...I was on a farm and people were trying to give me Lasik surgery (btw my brother just had Lasik surgery - maybe that triggered it) and trying to stick things in my eyes...that was scary because I don't like things going in my eyes lol Fifth and last...I was on the 59th Street platform in the city and I was trying to find the 6 train, even though I take it almost everyday, but this time I couldn't find it and it looked a lot more like a sewer than it normally does. Water was leaking and it was tremendously packed. Then, I found out the 6 train is broken and everyone has to take the 7 train (even though they are not in the same stations). Then, I actually see the 6 train, but I miss it. I remember feeling very confused and upset. Then, after waiting a LONG while, I get a 6 train after seeing one of my old friends as the conductor. Weird... tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.2007 2007-03-26T00:19:44Z 2007-03-26T00:28:04Z

All I have to say is I am sooooo happy Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" was on the exam......

True Romance All I have to say is I am sooooo happy Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" was on the exam... It wasn't as bad as I thought. Though, I am not going to lie - I did have the two minute panic attack when the exam started where I was on number 12 and I still couldn't identify any of them. However, I think once I saw Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", everything fell into place. I think I got like one or two wrong on the ID section. I just have to say one thing...I was REALLY going to write Milton's "Paradise Lost", but I just couldn't convince myself it was really it. I should really punch myself lol The second section, I felt, was the easiest. It took about ten minutes just to pick two poems you were able to write about - by the way I REALLY wanted to do Dickinson's poem...I kept going back to it and back to it and back to it - because I love Dickinson - and back to it, but I couldn't match it up with anything. I did Auden's and Atwood's poems and I found that once you picked two and wrote a bit of an outline for yourself, it was smooth sailing from there. All I gotta say is...THANK GOD THAT PART IS OVER!!! =) tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.1998 2007-03-25T15:28:24Z 2007-03-25T15:53:54Z

Hahahaha I was laughing in the morning...I remember this dream so vividly......

True Romance Hahahaha I was laughing in the morning...I remember this dream so vividly... I am in the bathroom with my mother and her water breaks. I didn't even know she was pregnant. I tell her "Are you serious?" and she tells me to call 911. In my dream I actually see the numbers on the cellphone I am using (I remember Freud said something about numerics showing up in dreams and I've never really seen that many numbers in my dream) and they show up after a while. We wait and wait and then I see a white police car across the street, but then we get in a blue van to go to the hospital. I forgot what happens because I don't think we make it to the hospital... Then I am on Northern Boulevard in my car with my mother. We get out and I see people from my old Greek school and we're sitting in the car and then on the concrete with them. It kept switching like this. It becomes night. THEN, I see RAY PRUITT (another 90210 participant) with VALERIE MALONE (another 90210 participant) across the street and they're carrying liquor bottles as they make their way to the street I am on. Then I ask them if they're okay and Ray Pruitt says, "I'm so depressed" and I say something like it's okay DONNA will come back to you. Lol, I have to stop watching 90210 - they keep showing up in my dreams... Then I have a conversation with my mother at a cafe or clothing store - I'm not sure. I ask her, "So what did you have?" and she says "I had a girl" and I was like "Oh, okay". (Note: I actually had a conversation with a co-worker when I told her that I've always wanted a sister. And she said that I wouldn't because she has a sister and she hates her - and then I was like "Oh, really, okay".) Because of this, I remember being extrememly happy, then in the next moment, suddenly sad. And now the moment we've all been waiting for...STEVE SANDERS is in the dream again! (lol) I am just roaming around and Steve Sanders, with his black leather jacket, is ready to leave. I hug him and I remember him being really tall when I look up at him. I'm trying to remove myself from him, but he grabs me and we start dancing. We keep dancing and I notice he's drunk. His girlfriend (yes, he has a girlfriend in the dream) keeps looking at me and I try to tell him, but he doesn't listen. At the end, I dance all the way to his girlfriend and I hand him to her so they can dance, while I tell her he's been drinking. Then I open the door of the store/cafe and go outside. tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2007:/blogs/0906N_1432/017//60.1930 2007-03-18T00:36:52Z 2007-03-18T00:56:33Z

I thought this one was much easier......

True Romance I thought this one was much easier... HOWEVER, I guess it wasn't because I got more wrong than the first one. This time, I had studied the periods and remembered most of them as I was writing and was actually writing about the periods when I didn't identify the author. It was working. But then I had another problem. Knowing the periods doesn't help much when you identify the wrong one as I did at times. The whole thing is wrong if you are in the wrong period because everything you write corresponds to the period you chose. So, now I reeeeeaaaLLLLLLy need to read popular and important works from each period - know the characters especially, so If I see one, I know where it is from and can write about it. It might be good to also read some popular quotes also because it will be easier to identify them on the test, along with some synopses of popular works from each period. All of this MIGHT make it easier to identify periods, which we want to do.