In the past month (wow...it's been a month) I have created two blogs per week, one focusing on reviewing a professional or semi-professional blog and the other dedicated to a cause I feel strongly about. In just four weeks, I have been introduced to four wonderful blogs focusing on photography and descriptions of specific forms of nature and human interaction. Learning from those I was reviewing, I developed my own blog in hopes of attaining the same results as the semi-professional bloggers in gathering followers to support my cause. The blog I have created, "The Space Cadets" has come a long way in the past 30 days.
Being a fan of the internet, I had witnessed many short-hand blogs such as twitter and tumblr, where people I was following were posting pictures and one-sentence descriptions or comments. When guided into Blogger, I noticed that people who had a cause to blog were so passionate about it that they could write pages and pages on one post. It was then that I noticed how, though seemingly boring when assigned to somebody to read, one who actually cared about the topic could be enveloped in hearing this blogger's feelings. It was like these bloggers were writing an essay without the due-date, without the guidelines, without the grades, and with an immense love for the topic.
In "Walking Arizona" and "Urban Wilderness", I was shown photographs depicting the beauty of both Arizona and Montreal, respectively. These two bloggers showed me the dedication they possessed for wanting to introduce the wonders they saw in the nature of their homes to the world. In both "Kenya Dig It!?" and "Callaghan's laughing", I have seen how one person can touch hearts of hundreds. However, both these two blogs are different in how "Callaghan's laughing" shows to be a more informal journal depicting the life Callaghan has with his friends while "Kenya Dig It!?" is showing how Allison dedicates her life to making friends across the globe and helping them get through their hard times. In all, the inspiration I have received to want to show the beauty of what I see through my eyes and attempting to change the lives of others has pushed me toward writing paragraphs and paragraphs a week to the the point of "The Space Cadets" on this blog.
Without blogging, I believe it would be harder to get your point across. People are small. There are over 7 billion humans on this earth right now and sometimes, getting your voice heard isn't as easy as being able to publish a newspaper article every day. "Nobodies" have to work from the bottom to the top to profess what they feel and if it weren't for the internet encouraging creativity such as blogs, then where would we be now? Blogs have helped people understand things they never could from a television show. Blogs have given the public people to look up to without even knowing who they may be at times. Blogs have inspired millions and changed changed the lives of thousands, promoting freedom of expression that some may be too scared to exercise in the real world. I am beyond thankful to the bloggers I have followed, this blog and its followers, and my teacher who assigned this project to me for inspiring me to do bigger and better things, even though it will be from behind a computer screen. Here's to the start of "The Space Cadets" and the future it holds in the world of the internet!
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
Friday, December 9, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Blog Review IV - "Urban Wilderness"
"Urban Wilderness" is a blog created by a person living an urban life in Montreal, Canada. This blog features many pictures of plants and animals living in the urban jungle. The creator of this blog has chosen to be anonymous, but this animosity does not prevent this blogger from showing their personality and emotions. The motto at the top of this page says, "Quasi-controlled chaos in a Montreal back yard," meaning the pictures featured are seemingly serine scenes of pure nature. Though the most recent post was from September (a few months back), following "Urban Wilderness" in hope for another informative addition to this page is well worth the wait.
Though every post on this blog features a picture of either animal or plant life, the real blog post is in the words under those pictures. You can see how passionate this blogger is about their topic of urban nature because, not only do they tell you the proper names of every plant and animal, but they also give in-depth descriptions of statics such as the height or age of certain living things featured in the photographs. Along with the cold-hard-facts of the matter, there is also much emotion poured into every picture. Some photos show creatures such as squirrels and raccoons in this person's back yard and they are tied with a few paragraphs written by the blogger explaining the story of why they decided to photograph or bother with the animal in the first place. Many of these descriptions mentioned feature rhetorical strategies such as allegories, alliterations, allusions, analogies, antithesis, climatic syntax, ellipsis, epistrophe, interruptions, hyperbole, metonyms, litotes, periphrasis, synecdoche, syndeton, polysyndeton, and zeugmas. An example of interruptions in a sentence would be from her post from June 6, 2011 titled "Lesson Learned -- The Hard Way" where she explains how she benefits from being stung by a bee:
"I'm not feeling too happy about my plight either -- my hand is swollen and discoloured and hurts! Hmmmm -- hold on -- there is a silver lining!"
Another example (this time, of an ellipsis) is from her June 21, 2011 blog titled "...(sort of) straight rows of veggies!"
This blog, I suspect from being helpful in both informative and emotional ways, has 101 followers thus far. Also, unlike many of the other blogs I've been following, this Canadian has received tens of comments on some of their posts. I enjoy reading through and learning fun facts I never knew about nature while also seeing beautiful photographs of Montreal urban life. Especially, I enjoy the 2008 posts made about raccoon sightings. I would suggest you read them first if you would like to get a feel of what upcoming posts will be like.
If you would like to follow "Urban Wilderness", please follow the link below:
http://urbanwildplants.blogspot.com/
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
Though every post on this blog features a picture of either animal or plant life, the real blog post is in the words under those pictures. You can see how passionate this blogger is about their topic of urban nature because, not only do they tell you the proper names of every plant and animal, but they also give in-depth descriptions of statics such as the height or age of certain living things featured in the photographs. Along with the cold-hard-facts of the matter, there is also much emotion poured into every picture. Some photos show creatures such as squirrels and raccoons in this person's back yard and they are tied with a few paragraphs written by the blogger explaining the story of why they decided to photograph or bother with the animal in the first place. Many of these descriptions mentioned feature rhetorical strategies such as allegories, alliterations, allusions, analogies, antithesis, climatic syntax, ellipsis, epistrophe, interruptions, hyperbole, metonyms, litotes, periphrasis, synecdoche, syndeton, polysyndeton, and zeugmas. An example of interruptions in a sentence would be from her post from June 6, 2011 titled "Lesson Learned -- The Hard Way" where she explains how she benefits from being stung by a bee:
"I'm not feeling too happy about my plight either -- my hand is swollen and discoloured and hurts! Hmmmm -- hold on -- there is a silver lining!"
Another example (this time, of an ellipsis) is from her June 21, 2011 blog titled "...(sort of) straight rows of veggies!"
This blog, I suspect from being helpful in both informative and emotional ways, has 101 followers thus far. Also, unlike many of the other blogs I've been following, this Canadian has received tens of comments on some of their posts. I enjoy reading through and learning fun facts I never knew about nature while also seeing beautiful photographs of Montreal urban life. Especially, I enjoy the 2008 posts made about raccoon sightings. I would suggest you read them first if you would like to get a feel of what upcoming posts will be like.
If you would like to follow "Urban Wilderness", please follow the link below:
http://urbanwildplants.blogspot.com/
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
This REVOLUTION will be emphasized!
The war against depression is a very controversial topic because the general public does not have the slightest clue what depression actually is. Many people in the world today are not educated enough on the matter of this mood disorder. In fact, due to this lack of education, many of those individuals who are "depressed" have not been prevented from taking the next step, harming themselves, and turning what was once considered a mood disorder into a mental disorder. I could talk about terms like these for the rest of this blog post, but technicalities are not my main concern.
I voice my true concern to you; not as an individual looking on those around me who categorize as being depressed, but as a depressed individual myself.
What concerns me most is how the depressed people are being treated: like lepers. Infomercials litter the television about what medications can be taken as method to blanket over the actual problem. Psychiatrists and psychologists are assigned to those showing lackluster performance and signs of mental and physical fatigue. There are programs circulating the schools of our children, attempting to inform them of the signs following these depressed individuals while using overly-generalized terms such as "suicidal" or "frequently bullied" to describe them. But, the issue I see in all of these methods is that they are trying to generalize the depressed public. In reality, depression is not one issue; it is as varied and numerous as the colors of the rainbow.
Because of this wide area of issues branching off from what is simply known as depression, individuals and companies around the world have attempted to cover as many areas as possible. Though a kind idea in theory to focus on one particular thing, what happens to those who create new branches of depression that were, until this point, unheard of?
The solution is simply not to have a solution. The name of our group is "The Space Cadets". We are a non-profit organization devoted to revolutionizing the war against depression. By providing various methods of creative thinking, problem solving, and education, The Space Cadets promote individuality, creativity, and self-respect in those affected by depression for the purpose of helping them learn to spread their wings and let their imagination soar. We don't need to win the war, we just need to change how we see it. The goal of this group's future is to be spread across the internet world wide, helping those suffering from bouts of depression to use their imagination and see the world from an enhanced point of view. This will be accomplished in the years ahead by establishing social networks now; social networks that provide experiences, stories, facts, words of wisdom, and support to all those who so desperately need to smile again.
We will not tell you depression is wrong. It's not. Depression changed my life to the point where I believe my writing skills, point of view, and spiritualism solely rely on it. I am against modern methods of anti-depressants because I believe that it will change who I have become. However, feelings such as self-loathing and hopelessness are horrifying side effects that are included in my way of life because of my depression. To rid myself of this fear my mood disorder brings, I know that a social network devoted to opening my mind will not only take some of the weight off my shoulders, but also enhance my creativity and turn my realist points of view into idealistic ones.
By utilizing the imaginations of thousands of people world-wide, we can completely revolutionize the way humans of this generation and those after us will view depression. Depression is not a disease, depression is not an illness, depression is not a choice; it is a way of life. Depression is an orb of genetics and life experiences that attaches to your soul and takes over who you are. It tries to control you. In retaliation, you are supposed to fight against depression and attempt in taking control of yourself again. However, I see no reason why myself and my depression cannot coexist.
The Space Cadets will soon grow and spread across the continents. Starting with two people and an idea, we now have over 60 Cadets across the United States standing for, what we believe, is the correct way to address depression. We do not need an end, we do not need a solution, we need change. Become a Space Cadet now and take up our cause of creating a revolution in this war we are all fighting.
You can become a Cadet via one or more of these social networks:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Space-Cadets
Tumblr: http://thespacecadets.tumblr.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacecadettweet
Or email us at: TheSpaceCadets.Mail@gmail.com
As always, stay in the clouds, Cadets...
I voice my true concern to you; not as an individual looking on those around me who categorize as being depressed, but as a depressed individual myself.
What concerns me most is how the depressed people are being treated: like lepers. Infomercials litter the television about what medications can be taken as method to blanket over the actual problem. Psychiatrists and psychologists are assigned to those showing lackluster performance and signs of mental and physical fatigue. There are programs circulating the schools of our children, attempting to inform them of the signs following these depressed individuals while using overly-generalized terms such as "suicidal" or "frequently bullied" to describe them. But, the issue I see in all of these methods is that they are trying to generalize the depressed public. In reality, depression is not one issue; it is as varied and numerous as the colors of the rainbow.
Because of this wide area of issues branching off from what is simply known as depression, individuals and companies around the world have attempted to cover as many areas as possible. Though a kind idea in theory to focus on one particular thing, what happens to those who create new branches of depression that were, until this point, unheard of?
The solution is simply not to have a solution. The name of our group is "The Space Cadets". We are a non-profit organization devoted to revolutionizing the war against depression. By providing various methods of creative thinking, problem solving, and education, The Space Cadets promote individuality, creativity, and self-respect in those affected by depression for the purpose of helping them learn to spread their wings and let their imagination soar. We don't need to win the war, we just need to change how we see it. The goal of this group's future is to be spread across the internet world wide, helping those suffering from bouts of depression to use their imagination and see the world from an enhanced point of view. This will be accomplished in the years ahead by establishing social networks now; social networks that provide experiences, stories, facts, words of wisdom, and support to all those who so desperately need to smile again.
We will not tell you depression is wrong. It's not. Depression changed my life to the point where I believe my writing skills, point of view, and spiritualism solely rely on it. I am against modern methods of anti-depressants because I believe that it will change who I have become. However, feelings such as self-loathing and hopelessness are horrifying side effects that are included in my way of life because of my depression. To rid myself of this fear my mood disorder brings, I know that a social network devoted to opening my mind will not only take some of the weight off my shoulders, but also enhance my creativity and turn my realist points of view into idealistic ones.
By utilizing the imaginations of thousands of people world-wide, we can completely revolutionize the way humans of this generation and those after us will view depression. Depression is not a disease, depression is not an illness, depression is not a choice; it is a way of life. Depression is an orb of genetics and life experiences that attaches to your soul and takes over who you are. It tries to control you. In retaliation, you are supposed to fight against depression and attempt in taking control of yourself again. However, I see no reason why myself and my depression cannot coexist.
The Space Cadets will soon grow and spread across the continents. Starting with two people and an idea, we now have over 60 Cadets across the United States standing for, what we believe, is the correct way to address depression. We do not need an end, we do not need a solution, we need change. Become a Space Cadet now and take up our cause of creating a revolution in this war we are all fighting.
You can become a Cadet via one or more of these social networks:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Space-Cadets
Tumblr: http://thespacecadets.tumblr.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacecadettweet
Or email us at: TheSpaceCadets.Mail@gmail.com
As always, stay in the clouds, Cadets...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Blog Review III - "Callaghan's laughing"
A blog I've discovered recently, titled "Callaghan's laughing", has caught my eye because of the vibrant photographs littering the page. The creator of this blog, a man that displays his name as "Get-Callaghan", is from Walthamstow, London, England and has the profession of photo editor and publisher. Due to his occupation, I was lured into the blog even more, attempting seeing the pictures from the professional's eye. Truthfully, I found them not only beautiful, but organic and expressive. "Callaghan's laughing" is a picture book showing the high points of the creator's travels and is meant to be seen as just that, a photographic diary. Most recently, you can view pictures of the "What's Cookin'..." concert from his own town and older photos from a 2002 trip to Arizona, U.S.A.
In posting pictures from his travels, Get-Callaghan allows his followers to view another human's life from said human's point of view. Not only are the pictures astonishing, but if you journey far back enough into the blog, you can find many thought-provoking captions underlining the picture's purpose. In showcasing his feelings toward the photographs, Get-Callaghan uses allegories, allusions, analogies, antithesis, ellipsis, hyperbole, litotes, irony, periphrasis, and personification. This seems like a lot of strategies for a photographer, right? Wrong; they're put to a very effective use. Examples of allegories shown in both his words AND pictures would be on his post from November 11, 2011, "Look around, Leaves are brown", when he uses a song lyric from the Simon and Garfunkel song "Hazy Shade of Winter",
"And the sky is a hazy shade of winter".
Another example of an allegory used, this time in a picture, would be in his post from November 16, 2011, "Alfie", where he holds a picture from the 1966 film Alfie to a landmark featured in the film and states underneath that he wants to take more photographs like the one posted above.
Though this blog is unappreciated (and the grammar used irks me at times), I believe the true reason to follow "Callaghan's laughing" is the purity captured in the photographs and the wonderful thoughts "Get-Callaghan" affixes to them. The photography is raw and the emotions they bring to me are overwhelmingly amazing.
If you would like to follow (or look at the pictures featured on) "Callaghan's laughing", click the link below:
http://getcallaghan.blogspot.com/
Have a Happy Turkey Day. :) As always, stay in the clouds, Cadets...
In posting pictures from his travels, Get-Callaghan allows his followers to view another human's life from said human's point of view. Not only are the pictures astonishing, but if you journey far back enough into the blog, you can find many thought-provoking captions underlining the picture's purpose. In showcasing his feelings toward the photographs, Get-Callaghan uses allegories, allusions, analogies, antithesis, ellipsis, hyperbole, litotes, irony, periphrasis, and personification. This seems like a lot of strategies for a photographer, right? Wrong; they're put to a very effective use. Examples of allegories shown in both his words AND pictures would be on his post from November 11, 2011, "Look around, Leaves are brown", when he uses a song lyric from the Simon and Garfunkel song "Hazy Shade of Winter",
"And the sky is a hazy shade of winter".
Another example of an allegory used, this time in a picture, would be in his post from November 16, 2011, "Alfie", where he holds a picture from the 1966 film Alfie to a landmark featured in the film and states underneath that he wants to take more photographs like the one posted above.
Though this blog is unappreciated (and the grammar used irks me at times), I believe the true reason to follow "Callaghan's laughing" is the purity captured in the photographs and the wonderful thoughts "Get-Callaghan" affixes to them. The photography is raw and the emotions they bring to me are overwhelmingly amazing.
If you would like to follow (or look at the pictures featured on) "Callaghan's laughing", click the link below:
http://getcallaghan.blogspot.com/
Have a Happy Turkey Day. :) As always, stay in the clouds, Cadets...
A Facade To Fill The Hole Your Confidence Left
Low self esteem is a large issue in today's world; especially concerning teenagers. Face it, the troubles of high school and hormones have only escalated in the past few decades and the parents of these troubled teens have no idea what to do. For some teenagers, this issue is resolved by simple things such as laughter or working out to forgot their troubles. Other teens spend their down time playing video games, playing sports, playing an instrument, writing, reading, acting, anything to make them feel comfortable with themselves again. My main focus for this entry, though, are the people who take their self esteem to higher levels by imagining that they are somebody else.
You've seen it (I'm sure) in schools, on the streets, in stores, maybe television has made you aware of it, or perhaps the internet. It is more of a fad than it ever has been - for someone to enjoy a show or game so much, they take on the role of their favorite character. Terms concerning these people are as follows:
Nicknames: harmless titles given to a person, highlighting certain traits or connecting them to another object.
Characters: nicknames applied from relation to actual or fictional characters.
Roleplayers: people who take on the role of a character for the purpose of pretending to be said character.
LARPers: (Live-action role playing) people who wear costumes and don weapons to physically act out as their characters in a live-action game.
Cosplayers: people who dress as a character of someone else's creation to feel closer to that character.
People identifying with these terms can be found everywhere. Because of low self-esteem, many teens have been sinking into the depths of depression. But I can speak from experience that people begin to feel more confident when they know they can control their own story. My group of friends is made up by video game, anime, and book nerds and more than half of them have, at one point or another, pretended to be something other than their original self. I see absolutely no harm in their actions.
In truth, I myself feel the need to live somebody else's life from time to time. When your imagination is the only thing determining your story, why not make yourself the hero? Better yet, when you control your fate, you can be the damsel in distress because you know that your mind's creation of a knight in shining armor will always be there to save you.
So next time you are feeling down and your self-esteem is running on empty, try to picture your life constantly going in the direction you want it to, no matter how illogical. Think of a story. Write about it. Draw it. Act it out. Act it out with your friends. Picture the you that you want to be and embrace it. The only thing that can ever hold you back while also having the power to make you soar is your imagination. Wield it wisely.
Happy Turkey Day! :3 And stay in the clouds, Cadets...
You've seen it (I'm sure) in schools, on the streets, in stores, maybe television has made you aware of it, or perhaps the internet. It is more of a fad than it ever has been - for someone to enjoy a show or game so much, they take on the role of their favorite character. Terms concerning these people are as follows:
Nicknames: harmless titles given to a person, highlighting certain traits or connecting them to another object.
Characters: nicknames applied from relation to actual or fictional characters.
Roleplayers: people who take on the role of a character for the purpose of pretending to be said character.
LARPers: (Live-action role playing) people who wear costumes and don weapons to physically act out as their characters in a live-action game.
Cosplayers: people who dress as a character of someone else's creation to feel closer to that character.
People identifying with these terms can be found everywhere. Because of low self-esteem, many teens have been sinking into the depths of depression. But I can speak from experience that people begin to feel more confident when they know they can control their own story. My group of friends is made up by video game, anime, and book nerds and more than half of them have, at one point or another, pretended to be something other than their original self. I see absolutely no harm in their actions.
In truth, I myself feel the need to live somebody else's life from time to time. When your imagination is the only thing determining your story, why not make yourself the hero? Better yet, when you control your fate, you can be the damsel in distress because you know that your mind's creation of a knight in shining armor will always be there to save you.
So next time you are feeling down and your self-esteem is running on empty, try to picture your life constantly going in the direction you want it to, no matter how illogical. Think of a story. Write about it. Draw it. Act it out. Act it out with your friends. Picture the you that you want to be and embrace it. The only thing that can ever hold you back while also having the power to make you soar is your imagination. Wield it wisely.
Happy Turkey Day! :3 And stay in the clouds, Cadets...
Friday, November 18, 2011
Blog Review II - "Kenya Dig It?!"
This week (now that looking for blogs to follow is a bit easier for me) I found a blog titled "Kenya Dig It!?" Yes, the title's all cutsie and funny. I love it. This blog is kept by a woman named Allison Hibb, who switches from living in both Kenya and the United States, and she keeps it as her travel log while living in Kenya. The site is a collaboration of stories and many (many...did I say many?) pictures of her days spent working with Kenyans. These blog posts started as fact-filled and informative, then evolved into something meaningful to Allison, a documentation of the new friends she made and the love she has for every last one of them. Those who follow this blog are informed of life in Kenya, the ups and downs of working for the Oasis of Hope ("a drop-in center for street children in...Kenya"), and what Allison tries to accomplish in living there.
Though this blog does not have a single or cut-and-dry purpose, it does give detail of Hibb's journeys in Kenya, leaving the reader to interpret this as they will (moving, informative, for personal appeal, for business). To add to her photographs, Hibb uses ellipsis, interruptions, anaphora, inverted sentences, zeugma, synecdote, allusion, and hyperbole while talking about her day. Her post "It's Friday, I'm In Love" on July 16, 2011 shows 112 pictures of the community and friends in Kenya that Hibb has to leave because she's moving back to America again. These pictures have captions above most and one in particular says,
"At break, we took individual pictures...said individual goodbyes...said "Nakupenda" (I love you) about 300 times."
This is an example of anaphora, ellipsis, and hyperbole use to explain her photographs and say how many times it felt like she had said "Nakupenda" (I love you) to her friends.
Though I actually can't tell how many followers "Kenya Dig It!?" has, I have read most of the blog posts and noticed that they rarely have more than one comment. I think that this blog is beyond inspirational and is beautiful to see the smiles in all the pictures posted or to read how happy being in Kenya makes Allison.
To read this beautiful blog, visit "Kenya Dig It!?" at:
http://kenyakenyakenya.blogspot.com/
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
Though this blog does not have a single or cut-and-dry purpose, it does give detail of Hibb's journeys in Kenya, leaving the reader to interpret this as they will (moving, informative, for personal appeal, for business). To add to her photographs, Hibb uses ellipsis, interruptions, anaphora, inverted sentences, zeugma, synecdote, allusion, and hyperbole while talking about her day. Her post "It's Friday, I'm In Love" on July 16, 2011 shows 112 pictures of the community and friends in Kenya that Hibb has to leave because she's moving back to America again. These pictures have captions above most and one in particular says,
"At break, we took individual pictures...said individual goodbyes...said "Nakupenda" (I love you) about 300 times."
This is an example of anaphora, ellipsis, and hyperbole use to explain her photographs and say how many times it felt like she had said "Nakupenda" (I love you) to her friends.
Though I actually can't tell how many followers "Kenya Dig It!?" has, I have read most of the blog posts and noticed that they rarely have more than one comment. I think that this blog is beyond inspirational and is beautiful to see the smiles in all the pictures posted or to read how happy being in Kenya makes Allison.
To read this beautiful blog, visit "Kenya Dig It!?" at:
http://kenyakenyakenya.blogspot.com/
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
Imagination makes snoozin' amusin'!
Does your brain have a mind of its own, or is it just hiding information from you? Many people can think back to a time when they've had a dream that actually helped them remember something in real life. But how does your brain know more than your conscious self? For those Space Cadets who spend the day imagining away, I'm sure there has been an instance where you have completely forgotten about something for hours, days, weeks. Just recently, I lost a few very important objects due to my forgetfulness. What I found amazing was not the mere fact that I remembered losing anything, but the way I came about remembering I what I had lost.
Imagine the scene: It's a Friday morning. The sun is out and you are, unusually, waking up early for school. You slept the whole night before. There was nothing that would have triggered such an odd dream as the one you just experienced. You were preparing for your wedding day. You ran and grabbed your boots, your dress clothes, and as you were preparing, you were repeating a speech in your dream-self's head that you had to present. But...what's this? The rings for the marriage! You forgot them!...cue awakening. The amazing part? Those boots and dress clothes you rushed to get on, you would rush to get on the same objects that day after school in preparation for an Academic Decathlon. The speech? That was one of your categories for said Decathlon. The rings you had forgotten? Those were the same rings that, in pain from being in the middle of writing an essay yesterday, you took off and placed on the desk at school. They were the rings that somehow you forgot to take with you and were now lost. The rings somebody very special gave to you as a gift; a promise. They are the same rings you didn't even remember until your dream reminded you.
Most likely, thoughts on this is "That's insane!" but no, it's true. My dream reminded me of something even my conscious self forgot. The reasoning? There are many theories on dreams relating to the imagination. The theory I humor the most is the Cognitive Theory of Dreams where it is stated by Calvin Hall that,“The images of a dream are the concrete embodiments of the dreamer’s thoughts; these images give visual expression to that which is invisible, namely, conceptions." - The Meaning of Dreams (1966)So you mean that my dreams are just extended and in-depth thoughts I have while sleeping? Maybe. Maybe not. Nobody knows yet the reasoning behind dreaming. What do I believe? I believe that dreams are a world where experience meets imagination. Seems logical enough, right?
To learn more about the Cognitive Theory of Dreams, visit this link:http://dreamstudies.org/2009/12/03/calvin-hall-cognitive-theory-of-dreaming/Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
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