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1. "Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing in our self-interest, and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of un learning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love." -Ardy Lang
My take on this is, the way we think is automatic, and we dont really have control over our thoughts. We just go with the sensations our body feels, we dont really think about it that much.

2. When someone asks me a question, i go back into time in my head and i use my memory. Memory is important for my thinking strategies. The way i make a decision in life about anything, i think about what i have done in the past and the mistakes i have made and i visualize situations that i have been in. When i am thinking about making a decision my thinking process goes into the future. I think about the outcome of that certain decision and what the result will be.

3. There are all types of intellegence. Based on how well you do in school, determines the college you go to, and the job you get and the money you earn. But school smart does not account for everything and i am learned that there is all different levels of intellegence. I have met so many different types of people, and i know a lot of people who are "steet smart" and i think thats something you'll never learn at school and school cannot teach us everything we need to know.

4. A lot of the time i think i dont have control over my thinking. I mean, i am in control of my thoughts but when ever i day dream i find that i am not in control over my thoughts and my day dreams are sometimes like a dream, its crazy. A Freudian slip is when you say something you didnt mean to say, but you said it anyway. It is caused by the unconcious mind. I have had a Freudian slip many times, and everytime i say something it is something i didnt mean to say, but im thinking about in my head and i didnt really want anyone to hear what i said.

5. Aestetics: Our society is very judgmental, and we are constantly judging others based on appearences. There are people who are pleasing to look at, but what makes them pleasing? i cant say i dont judge because i do judge others based on appearences. "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" What criteria is used to base the standards of beauty. In a lot of ways the media influences what people consider beautiful. What part of my thinking process do i use to decide who is aestheicly pleasing in appearence. I cant even say what thinking process i use, its just myself and others can tell when something or someone is aesteticly pleasing. What is pretty? i think everyone has their own standards and


6. Metacognition: Definition " Thinking about thinking" We think everyday, all the time, even when we dont realize we are thinking and having a thought process, we are. But we rarley think about our thinking. How did i make that decison? Why did i choose this? People live out of habit, and we are automatic. We are automatic thinkers. When you first learn to do something you think about each step you up put into it. Like driving for example, when you are learning how to drive, you pay attention to every detail and can recall every detail. But once you drive for a while, you can drive somewhere out of habit, because your used to it. my mom for example, drives me places and once she said to me. "I dont even remember how i got here." This is because she doesnt have to think about it anymore, she had taken that route many times before and was used to the drive.
Last year in class we watched the movie "Momento" The main character had lost his memory and said "Habit and routine make my life possible." He had lost his memory so he had no new memories to help him everyday. Habit, routine, and a lot of notes made him live as an automatic thinker.

quotes from my classmates

1. “I have never had a very deep connection with my dreams and keeping a dream journal definitely helped me to realize that.” Jake R.

I choose this quote because I agree with what Jake is saying. A dream journal really helps me be connected with my dreams. Where as before I was disconnected from my dreams because I never remembered them.

2. “Dream are basically portals into our subconcious, and are therefore our only means of truly having an encounter with ourself.” Michael M

I chose this quote because I agree with it what he is saying. I know from my own personal experience that my dreams are to the root my myself in a way, and my dreams sometimes show something I want.

3. “Before this unit I was not able to remember most of my dreams and if I did, I would not be able to remember them past after a certain amount of time. This dreams unit helped me focus more into the dreams and I gained control over certain aspects of them.” Jorenz

I choose this quote because I completely agree, before this dreams unit I wasn’t dreaming as frequently and now I am dreaming almost every night. And I had a lucid dream, I knew I was dreaming and it was fun to have control over my dreams.

5th chunk

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Ardy Lang believes "As men of the world, we hardly know of the existence of the inner world; we barley remember our dreams, and make little sense of them when we do;" Ardy Lang argues that dreams mean something, and one reason people dont know the very meaning of themselves is because we dont remember our dreams and we dont ever stop to think what do our dreams really mean.
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I agree somewhat with Ardy Langs arguemnt. Because what difference will making sence of my dreams have on my life? Not only that, people dont have control over their dreams. I cant control what i dream about, when i dream, and if i have a lucid dream or not. Its hard to remember ever detail of our dreams.
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my personal experience related to ardy langs argument

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Something ive notcied is ever since we started talking about dreams in class, i have been remembering my dreams more often. Is crazy because I am dreaming again, when i stopped for a while. Also i am writing my dreams down and trying to understand what they really mean. I love having dreams because my dreams at least to me, mean something and i have fun in my dreams. The other night i had a dream i was swinging from tree to tree with some sort of animal. I cant do that in my everyday life, and it was fun.

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I have to write in my dream journal right after i wake up, or in the middle of the night because i easily forget my dream and the details in my dreams. Often i have more than one dream in one night. Also my dreams to me play like a movie, but they never have a begenning. My dreams always begin in the middle but never have an ending. My dreams are like the middle of a movie, and i often dont see what happens in the end of my dream, it cuts off. This reminds me of the music video we watched in class. Where the man was lying of the street and eveyone was sourounding him and wanted to know why he was lying down. He responded by telling the people "You dont want to know why im lying here" the crowd grew larger and they aked him if he was lying there because there was no point in living and he responded no. When the man told the people why he was lying there we couldnt hear what he was saying, soon the whole crown was lying on the floor. This is similar to my dreams because there are so many dreams where i never see the end, and i want to see the outcome of my dream but never do.

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In class we were talking about imagination and dreams. Everybody has daydreams when your sitting in class while your mind drifts away and your thoughts take over you. This happenes to me all the time, I'm in my own little world a lot of the time. I think that dreaming and your imagination are similar, but not the same. You have control over your imagination and your thoughts in class. But you have no control over your dreams. I think dreams are more meaningful than your imagination, because dreams are the root of your inner most desires. Dreams are the root of you, and dreams ofter reveal a lot about a person and thier thoughts. People try to hide their feelings and emotions while awake, but when dreaming you can see how you really feel and what you really want. People choose to not pay attention to dreams because they think they mean nothing. After reading Fromm, and the Ardy Lang articles i am paying more attention to my dreams, also i am having dreams more often which i like.

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My beliefe about dreams is that dreams show your inner, deepest most desires. I think dreams are all about what you want.

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This matters because what you want in life is important, and important in your life.