The Power of Dreams

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We go to sleep every night and wake up every morning. I’m sure we can all remember having some sort of dream and wondering about it’s meaning. We can’t really explain what went on in our minds but we still search for some meaning. Some times these dreams bring good sensations, and sometimes bad ones. I’ve heard many things about dreams. My friend once told me about a television show she saw. It was about dreams. I immediately became intrigued because they always amazed me. She told me that there are four stages of sleep. She said that you begin to have dreams when you get to the fourth stage, and at that time you are in the deepest state of sleep. Once during the summer while at the mall my friend and I were walking around and checking out all the cool stores. Suddenly I glanced at a shelf of books, journals, and dictionaries of dreams. I picked up a dictionary, and began to flip through the pages. Soon I realized that I had a dream that boggled my mind a couple days ago. The dream was mainly about snakes, so I looked up snakes in the dictionary. It said that some one I’m very close to would betray me, so I glanced at my friend and told her that she was going to betray me, but she told me that wasn’t the case. We went on with our rampage through the stores, but in the back of my mind I still remembered what I read about my dream. A few days later I got in a fight with my mom because she criticized how I looked, and that looked like betrayal to me. From that point on I began to wonder if dreams could predict the future, but I wasn’t exactly sure. Are dreams really prophecies from the mind, or just some thing going on in your head that’s completely unexplained.

Many people believe that dreams have no speci...

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...reams. When I started writing this paper I just say “dreams” as an interesting topic to write about. But when I actually started to read about it was amazed by all the fascinating information I found. I have always felt that dreams had some sort of key to the future, now I have real reason to believe that.

Works Cited

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Innes, Brian. The Book of Dreams. New York: Brown Packaging Books, 2000.

Lewis, James R. The Dream Encyclopedia. Washington D.C.: Visible Ink., 1995.

Logan, Daniel. The anatomyof prophecy. New Jersey: Prentice-hall, 1975.

The Silver Circle. “Shamanism.” 22 Jan. 2001

*http://www.spiritonline.com/files/messages/10/182.html?964996630*.

“What is Shamanic Dreaming?” 22 Jan. 2001 *http://www.mossdreams.com/shamanic.htm*.

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