Series of Dreams

In the song “Series of Dreams,” Bob Dylan uses the symbols and archetypes of flying and falling to express the theme of confusion within the dream. According to Anthony Stevens in Ariadne’s Clue, he states, “The fall is thus a mythic representation of humanity’s transformation from hunter to farmer” (419). Mentioning of flying was also apparent: “Flying is clearly link to the symbolism of ascent and decent,” which indicates that the dreamer is possibly at an all-time high either spiritually or emotionally. Though in the song “Series of Dreams,” he says “Wasn’t thinking of anything specific,” clearly that was not the case when he says, “In one, numbers were burning, In another, I witnessed a crime”(Dylan).

The Last Pictures Space Project

Ariadnes Clue

Interesting/Insightful quotes:

1) "Thus, Myths and rituals involving immersion in water, Purification, the deluge, the submersion of lost continents, the dissolution of the old order and the precipitation of the new, all fit together so as to 'make up a symbolic system which in a sense pre-existed them all."

2) "In the past, researchers in neuroscience and in artificial intelligence have maintained the fallacy that forms of intelligence could be devised on the basis of pure logic without having to postulate anything so messy as 'meaning'.

3)"For a hero possessing the highest rank to descend to the lower depths to recover a loved one who has been carried there is a supreme act of sacrifice displaying the greatest altruism, paralleled by the act of Christ, descending into hell after his crucifixion to accomplish salvation of Adam-and all humankind."

Confusion quote:

1)"Edelman's ideas are part of a wider scientific movement to put the mind back into nature."

My Dream

9-12-2012

My Dream

My Dream is to become a chiropractor. (Simple Sentence) I want to be a chiropractor because I believe that Alternative forms of medicine are extremely important. (Compound Sentence) Even though this is going to be hard, I believe that that nothing can stop me and I will become a chiropractor. (Compound Complex Sentence) I would also love to have my own Practice one day because that seems to be the best way to help people. (Complex Sentence )