The Dream
...My parents did not tell me exactly what had happened, but I knew just by looking at the room. We had been robbed. Terrified by the idea of being robbed, I thought I was in a dream. I slowly walked over to my huge piggy bank and saw that it was broken in half. Finally, I realized I was not in a dream and the robbery had actually happened.
My family was in shock for several days not knowing what to do. I still could not fully grasp what had happened. In a stage of stress, I fell asleep scared of what had happened. I began to dream as soon as I fell asleep. In my dream, I was sleeping and abruptly woke up to go to the bathroom. I sensed fear so I hesitated to go to the bathroom. When I could not wait any longer, I got up and started walking to my door. I opened my cold door knob and walked into the hallway. The minute my foot stepped out of my room I heard a familiar voice telling me to freeze. Before I froze, I turned around to see who the familiar voice belonged to. I could not believe my eyes. My parent's best friend and their two kids, who were close friends of mine, all held machine guns pointed at me. They kept telling me what to do, but I could not make out what they were saying. Everything became a big blur. I wanted to run to my parents and warn them that their friends had guns, but I could not move my legs. Before I could find out why they were in the house, I woke up.
A dream is a naturally occurring phenomenon that occurs during someone's sleep. Many people have similar dreams in which they can relate to while some people have dreams that are rare and hard to relate to. Even if people have similar dreams, the way someone interprets it can make the dream completely different. One can optimistically interpret the dream while the other can pessimistically interpret that same dream. Freud and Jung both revolutionized the study of dreams through their...
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