After recording my dreams in a journal for about a week, I found that my dreams are somewhat ordinary and similar to my waking life. The dreams that are most common for me include shared topics with many other dreams that I have, people, places and events from my everyday life, and multiple experiences which happen only a short amount of time prior to having my dreams. My dreams are all similar in some ways and relate to multiple aspects of my everyday life. A few common ideas running through my dreams I have recorded in my dream journal include school, dance classes, friends, and danceline. These four topics play a major role in my everyday life, so it is logical that they appear in my dreams as well. In the five dreams I recorded, two …show more content…
Every place I was at in my dreams has been somewhere I have been in my real life. Also, each person in my dreams has been a part of my life at some point, whether I have a close relationship with them or not. For example, Hannah Allen, Taylor Frame, Phillip Bailey, and my dance team are just a few of my friends who appeared in the dreams I documented in the journal. Throughout the course of my typical dreams, I go through my normal life daily routines, however sometimes in an odd and unusual way. I think the main function of my dreams is to solve problems similar to what I encounter in my waking life in different …show more content…
Many of my dreams contain events that have occurred recently in my life. My first dream that I recorded in my dream journal is the best example when it comes to this aspect of how I dream. Not every event that is in my dreams and happened in my waking life is exactly the same, but there are distinct similarities and a reason why I dreamt them to be happening. First of all, there was an early dismissal from school which actually took place only four days before I had this dream. When I was outside playing in the snow in my dream, the same events and people I was with actually happened in my life only about two days prior. Also, in my dream, Hannah Allen was planning on spending the night; yet she forgot her toothbrush so she went home. That night before I fell asleep, Hannah decided to spend the night but did not have a toothbrush; however, she spent the night anyway. All three of these examples, plus a few more I did not mention, actually occurred in my waking life and then later in my dreams. This shows that some peoples’ dreams are influenced by the events, decisions, or problems that are present in their