...5th Chunk:DREAMS

"A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep". As stated on Wikipedia, dreams are an experience of many different things. R.D Laing looked into this subject and stated his theory on dreams; " many of us do not know, or even believe, that every night we enter zones of reality in which we forget our waking life as regularly as we forget our dreams when we awake".His theory was that dreams are a part of out actual experience and that by denying our dreams we are missing alot of our life...we are being alienated.
I think that dreams are experience because when you dream you experience so many different things that you wouldn't experience in real life (most of the time). i also think that its your experience because when you wake up you realized what you dreamed about, and its almost like that dream was in real life. I think that people that don't dream don't have much of a connection to their inner self as people who do dream. i think that they don't have as much awareness, like dreams make you alert and aware of more things, so sometimes its good to dream so your more aware of you surroundings. My theory on dreaming is that; dreams are what you'd like to do or happen to yourself. so its coming from your thoughts. you do things in dreams that you wish you could do awake, but you not brave enough.
One thing we learned about is "Lucid Dreaming". What lucid dreaming is, is when you are dreaming and you know that you dreaming. For about a week Andy told us to try and lucid dream every night, so it was on my mind. So one night (not sure if it was a lucid dream) but at around 7:30 ( the time that my alarm usually goes off ) i woke up ( in my dream) and someone had called my cell and it was someone saying that we didn't have school so to shut of my alarm. So then i shut off my real alarm and never woke up for school that day. I then was woken up by my mom around noon and she was mad at me and said i really did have school. Overall i just thought that that was an extremely weird dream because i actually woke up turned off my alarm and went back to sleep and continued with that dream.
There are also sometimes when i think that I'm dreaming but I'm really not, I'm in reality. I cant think of an exact example, but sometimes when i feel like I'm dreaming is when i have so much power and the ability to do things i usually don't do makes me feel like I'm dreaming when I'm not. because i start to think that its too good to be true. and in most of my dreams, alot of the things i do are too good to be true, they are things i wouldn't ever do in real life.
One activity that you got me thinking hard about the subject was that you asked us " whats the difference between imagination and dreaming?". The difference between imagination and dreaming is that when we were doing the activity , you lead us to what you wanted us to think, while dreaming is supposed to be spontaneous and you cant lead yourself to dream what you want to dream. the similarities are that in both dreaming and imagining g, you think of the most random things ever most of the time, things that don't happen in real life. I also had heard from a friend that when you try and "control" you dreams ( what you want to dream about ) , those are the nights that you don't dream or wake up not remembering what you dreamt about.
In conclusion, dreams connect to dealiantion because when someone doesn't dream or they wake up not remembering their dreams,they aren't connecting with a part of themselves. they aren't realizing things about themselves. because when i wake up remembering my dreams, they show me a part of my life I've never realized, it always warns me about certain things that my be coming up in my life. so yes i can see how not dreaming can dealiante you from you inner self and even the world/society, because you aren't seeing the things others are!