Dreams....

I was walking down the hall to my room when I realized that my light was still on. I entered my room and found that my boyfriend was sitting on the bed waiting for me to get ready for dinner. I told him to leave and that I would meet him at the restaurant. After he left, I got a phone call. It was of a man, he was speaking in a low monotone voice. He said that if I didn’t leave with my boyfriend that he would die and that he would come after me. I got scared and hung up on him. I called my boyfriend and heard that same man on the line. I hung up and ran out of my house. While running I saw my boyfriends car in the driveway, then I came to the conclusion that it might have been just him trying to scare me. I woke up from my dream and realized that I had left my television on while watching Criminal minds. I turned off my television and went back to bed.

I envisioned myself on a surfboard in Hawaii. When going back to shore I saw my boyfriend waiting for me on the shore. When getting closer to the shore, he got up and left. I remember yelling at him to stop but I he just kept walking. When I got to shore I realized that the person that was my boyfriend really wasn’t it was a man. I saw that he was staring at me from across the street. I watched the man as I dried off on the shore, and realized after grabbing my towel that he had my bag. I chased after him and followed him into an alleyway. At the end of the street I saw my actual boyfriend waiting for me with candles and food. Not the most romantic place for dinner, but as I got up he pulled out my chair and he gave me a box, with a Pandora bracelet in it.

I woke up the next morning quite scared because I didn’t remember what the man that took my bag looked like.

1. Psychoanalytic Perspective (wish-fulfillment theory)- A desire of my dream may be that I am scared that my boyfriend will be killed one day leaving my house. During late nights he gets really tired and has to drive 30 minutes to get to his house, I am scared that he would get in a car crash. And also my desire for a Pandora bracelet could lead to my boyfriend actually giving me one. The manifest content of my dream was that I getting ready for dinner with my boyfriend, while a man was calling me and taking my stuff. The latent content of my dream refers to the unconscious meaning of the dream, maybe an unfulfilled wish or desire. I believe that my latent content was that for Christmas I asked my boyfriend to buy me a Pandora bracelet, and take me out for dinner. I could have been scared of the man that I didn’t know because I was watching criminal minds and a similar scene was being played out.
2. Biological View (Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis)- the activation-synthesis hypothesis is the brain’s ways of making sense of the activity during REM sleep. A biological view of my dream may have been the fact that I was watching criminal minds before going to bed. Criminal minds is a twisted show and the episode I was watching was of a truck driver taking older women to find a queen for his daughter whom is being taken away. This episode may explain why he was in two places, by my house and in Hawaii, because he travels around a lot. Following the man and finding my boyfriend may have been that I was trying to find my king, and it just happened to lead to my boyfriend. But this approach doesn’t explain why he was calling my house after my boyfriend and left, and telling me that my boyfriend was going to die if I didn’t go with him. 
3. Cognitive Perspective- I agree that dreams can help you solve your problems that may be being faced throughout life, but sometimes dreams can make you feel something that has nothing to do with what is trying to be solved. My dream helps me realize that my boyfriend should get more sleep and go home earlier if we hang out till late. I should be more considerate of him, and he might just buy me what I really want. I can’t understand why I was dreaming of a man calling my house, and watching me but I can say that I will not be watching criminal minds that soon before I go to bed, and to not take that show to heart.

Advantages About Being Deaf and/or Blind

            When one of your senses is taken away from you all your others become heightened. An advantage about being deaf is that telemarketers will not call you if they know that that person is deaf, or hard of hearing. Noises that usually wake up people in the middle of the night won’t wake a deaf person up. When loud noises outside, like drilling and jack hammering, they don’t have any effect to you at all. Having no effect to loud noises is a good thing but what’s even better is that when not wanting to listen to anyone near you, when someone is deaf they won’t be able to hear that person or if hard- of hearing they could turn down their hearing aids. Sleeping beside someone who is snoring very loudly won’t be disturbing them throughout the night due to the fact they cant here them. A hearing aid can make a person a better listener, considering they have to listen more closely to what someone is saying, but also when being deaf can make you pay more close attention to what their mouths are saying. Another reason being deaf has its advantages is that when being deaf or hard of hearing you actually have to think what to say before you say it, usually this doesn’t get someone in trouble but may make you miss the rest of the conversation. Being deaf does seem to be a hassle but it seems to have some advantages; closer parking stall to a store, being a greater listener, and having people (like friends) treat you with respect.

Becoming blind also heightens your senses, being able to smell or feel an object by evaluating it and making a judgment that way.  Having sight means you are able to see what an object is and go from there, but when someone is blind they have to evaluate to determine what they are experiencing. That determining is unique to the person because everybody may see or feel some things differently. An article said that when someone is blind they have a certain type of confidence in them selves that most people don’t have. They have to trust what they are feeling or smelling, which creates trust within someone. Another advantage would be when going on a date or hanging out with someone you aren’t able to judge that person by their looks but how they talk to you and their personality, sometimes people just look at appearance and judge from there without even viewing their personality. Sighted people judge how everyone looks but when being blind you can think that everyone is beautiful/handsome, you become a better person because you aren’t judging people. Being blind also makes you a better listener because you have to understand what the person is feeling and doing without looking at the facial expressions of them.              

Having a handicap, like being blind or deaf, can have the disadvantages but having this sort of handicap doesn’t have a big negative effect on how you are as a person, it simply makes you a better one.

Scavenger Hunt

      I went to Target in Bellingham at Bellis Fair. The Barbie dolls of different racial colors were difficult to find, I found 3 black dolls and 1spanish dolls. But the Barbie dolls that were white were very easy to find, most of them were white. The holiday cards were a bit tricker because they had no cards out for Christmas, just Halloween and fall. Some people don’t celebrate Halloween so the fall cards seemed to be there alternate. I did not find cards that were for LGBT couples. but I looked at the wedding/ anniversary area and I saw some didn’t have to be just for heterosexual couples, most were like "To the women I love" or "To my husband", they could of been used for both kinds of couples.       
      I saw shopping carts that had electric wheel chair accessibility, and the isle seemed to be bigger (may have been a coincidence though).  I didn’t see many signs for people over 60. The pictures frame fillers were had a variety of races, many were white but I saw some that were black and Asian. I did not find any Native American sports teams, did only found Seattle Blackhawks. Native American style blankets were popular, but other than that nothing seemed to be Native American.
      The clothing sections were fairly spaced out, but I think that if an elder person or larger person were going shopping they may find it hard to navigate their way around all the racks. The racks weren’t all in a straight line; they seemed to be cascaded everywhere. In America I always see plus size sections in different stores for both men and women; the store signs usually say “Plus Size”, there is also a section for maternity clothes. For the men I believe the larger sizes are mingled in with the other types of clothes men would wear.
      The workers in the store were a variety of people, from black to Chinese to white and many more. The employees seemed very happy and welcoming even to the questions people had to ask, they had no problem dropping everything and helping them. The customers were pretty much the same, a variety of different races. Lots of families were shopping for food and electronics. I only saw a few elder people as well as a few larger people. The average age that were shopping there would have been between the ages of 30-45.  

      This assignment was a little difficult because of all the things we needed to find, like the cards, but since the holidays were pretty general, like birthdays and Halloween, finding a variety was difficult. Finding cards for homosexual couples were a little difficult because I was a little bias due to all the cards could have been used for heterosexual or homosexual couples. The customers were a little pushy and rude waiting in lines or walking behind you, but overall they weren’t bad. The employees were/seemed friendly when I asked them where something was. I found it interesting when we needed to do this assignment because when doing it I finally paid more attention to the other stuff, like usually I would know what I would want and then go for that but this time I had to pay attention to the signs and stuff. Overall I thought this is assignment was pretty neat to learn some interesting stuff about things I usually don’t pay attention too.

Writing Assignment #1

My experience with creating my first blog wasn't as challenging as i thought it would be. It was a hastle to to create another google account but that was easy. My password wouldn't work for a little bit, but eventually i did it. I have not had or made a blog before creating one on blogger , i have facebook but thats not technically a blog just a page with some info and photos of my friends, family, and myself.
Doing a blog makes me feel important, seems like people are following what i am doing. They can read and follow what i am writing about psychology. I think creating a blog was a good idea because we usually use a computer while doing our homework. computers are easier because they don't waste any paper, and isnt as hard or slow as writing it down on a piece of paper. I think that blogging my assignments might be a better way in organizing all my activities in psychology. What would be bad though is if the power went down in ttown, and you wouldn't be able to do an assignment and it got late because of that.
The feeling of having other student and teachers reading my assignments is kind of nerve racking because i get very nervous about people reading my writing. I dont usually write down assignments and have other people reading it. But while thinking that strangers are going to be reading my assignments is kind of creepy, why would they be looking at a students assignments anyways...?