Thursday, September 24, 2015

English is Entering my Dreams

        While dreaming the other night, I found myself in a city where I could change any aspect of the environment at my will.  Much like Adradne, I took full advantage of this privilege and rearranged the entire architecture of the city.  In response to the change of environment, the inhabitants of the dream began to get mad at me and eventually killed me before I was satisfied with the environment of the dream.  Hopefully I will have another chance to enter a similar dream, where I can spend more time exploring, but it better not not involve modernist attributes, such as those found in Inception, because I would spend too much time during the day confusing myself about my subconscious.

        The modernistic traits that I would be most concerned about seeing in my dream would be impressionism and ambiguous endings.  All day, I would be breaking my dream into every little detail that I could imagine, and trying to find the deeper meaning of what these details mean.  The search for the meaning of the non-transparency and impressionism would be driven by an insatiable ambiguous ending, such as the ending of Inception, when you do not know whether the top will fall or keep spinning, would become a daunting task.  I am certain that the constant search for the inner meanings of my dreams would drive me to insanity, and I am thankful that I am not plagued with such a curse.  

        Although Inception is tied to modernism, it made me excite to start the psychoanaliytic criticism unit.  Modernism explains the symbolism and themes behind Inception, which is good to know, but I want to know the psychology behind Inception so I can better understand what is going on and how certain characters are driven to act.  Also, it would be interesting to connect these two units because they seem to have much in common.

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