Assignment
Part One
Read through your dream journals and write a paragraph on how your dreams are created! Do you dream about work/home/school a lot? Old neighbourhoods or your current ones? Do the plots resemble real life (as in people, places, etc), or are they often very far-fetched? Can you think of something they resemble?


I used to dream a ton about school, even in last year (I've now had three schoolfree years). Also after army I had dreams about army for months and still occasionally have dreams about having gone back there with some faulty logic -reason like "additional 6 months of service". Those type of dreams have both gotten more rare though.

I've been doing a sort of Simpsons marathon this month and before that so at the start of the month I had like 10 nights in a row dreams about Simpsons.. Actually now that I checked it 18 of 24 dreams I've recalled something of this month have had some kind of reference to the Simpsons. So yeah, direct proof that day's events creep into the dreams.

The plots seem to vary. Sometimes they make good sense and make you amazed of your subconscious' ability to create stuff but sometimes their just seemingly random connections between things. Example: In one of my Simpsons-related dreams Bart owned a mint pastil factory in Arizona.

Overall I can't pin down whether my dreams make sense or not. It really depends on the night. Sometimes my dreams make perfect sense and maintain their continuity amazingly, yet sometimes i'm just thrown around from situation to situation and from place to place.

Part Two
Write a brief paragraph on your understanding of what a schema is and how you could potentially use it to accomplish something you’ve never done before (ex. flight).

Well, I tried once to turn night into a day by flipping the light switch but it didn't work. In terms of schemata I think it could've been plausible thinking the relation with light and day etc. Then again, the light switch doesn't event put the normal lights on always in dreams.. Though even that's the fault of schemata, as BillyBob states in his post! I actually read that post probably year ago originally and since then I've tried to enter various world's when lucid, though usually with bad results.