Series of Dreams

In the song “Series of Dreams,” Bob Dylan uses the symbols and archetypes of fire, running, and falling to express the theme of dreams.  According to the Bob Dylan, “in one, numbers were burning.” Dreams do not only include running: “Running, running away, being pursued by a predator or savage warrior, is a common happening in our dreams. Dreams not only include fires and running, but also “falling, a natural calamity […] in dreams” (Stevens, pg. 418).

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Ariadne's Clue

Interesting/Insightful Quotes 

• "Human dreams are spontaneous, involuntary events which generate symbols every night of our lives. In dreams, no less than in consciousness, we use symbols to try out ideas in the light of past experience and to formulate new concepts burst through the threshold of consciousness (Stevens, 16-17)." 
• "The typical dreams reported involved predatory animals, flying, falling, being pursued by hostile strangers, landscapes, sex, getting married and having children, taking examinations or undergoing some similar ordeal, traveling (whether on foot, horseback, car, airplane, or ship), swimming or being in the water, watching fires, and being confined in an underground place (Stevens, 21)." 
• "Symbols and words have one thing in common: that they are all sensory expressions of thought. Thoughts which are invisible and inaudible in themselves are made visible and audible in images and sounds (Stevens, 28)."

Confusing Quote

• "Symbol formation is evidently related to reification- a parallel propensity by which an idea or an abstraction is transformed into something tangible, such as a deity (for example, Eros, God of Love; Mars, God of War; and Gaia, Mother Earth) (Stevens, 36)." 

Simple.Compound.Complex.Compound-Complex.

I had a dream being late to class. I tried looking for my alarm clock, but I could not find it anywhere.  Because it was still dark outside, I wanted to stay in bed until it was the right time to get ready. Even though I could not find it, I was able to manage my time to be in class, and I got to see some of my friends from the previous classes.

Hello, Fall 2012 :)