This trimester, I am taking the class WWW.LA (or as I call it, LA.com). It's been pretty easy so far. The point of the class is to write a research paper, about 5 pages long. All we've done so far is research our topic, which although it isn't hard has proven to be very interesting. My topic is dreams and sleep. Something just occurred to me, and here it is: I don't know if anyone else has had this happen to them, but sometimes I'll be having a dream, and I'll be holding something, let's say, I don't know, a glass of water, and then I wake up and I'm in my bed but I still feel the glass of water in my hand. I was awake, but I still felt like I was holding the thing from my dream until I moved my hand. This has happened to me more than once. I wonder why this is. You know how people say "pinch me so I know I'm not dreaming"? If you pinch yourself while you're dreaming, will you wake up? I wonder where the physical boundaries are drawn between dreaming and waking up. When you're sleeping, your nerves supposedly don't report things to your brain, but if that's true, why did I feel like I was holding a glass of water from my dream when I was awake? This is something I'll have to do more research on and I'll tell you if I find out, and comment if you know/had that happen to you too!
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Jackie
12/13/2012 11:35:41 am
I have always been facinated by dreams...they are extremely interesting. Sometims i'll dream about a minor detail that happened to me during the day but i won't really remember and I wake up and I'm liek woah that was awesome!
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Nick
12/15/2012 01:03:26 am
I know that sometimes I fall into a very light sleep and feel as though I'm walking though a field, looking at the ground. After a while, I'll step into an unseen hole, and my leg will sort of spasm and ill wake up. I'm not sure why it happens so often though, like once every 2 or 3 weeks.
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Maura
1/8/2013 02:57:43 am
That happens to me too!
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Marisa
12/17/2012 11:47:28 am
Mind = blown. I can't wait to read your paper!
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Chris
12/18/2012 10:48:54 am
Once I was dreaming that I was a waiter balancing a lot of food on my hand as I walked to a table, and then as i was walking, my alarm clock went off and jolted me awake. I then started freaking out about all the food I dropped until i realized that it was only a dream. That was a really odd dream ending.
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Emily
12/21/2012 01:38:24 pm
I once had a dream that I was eating strawberry ice cream, and I woke up licking the air with an intense craving for strawberry ice cream. Side note: even though i don't take the class, I call it triple dubs. Just puttin that out there.
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