Oil? What’s that?
To The Generations I’ve Helped Ruin:
The name is Shane McCartney. The year is 2008. I’m 19, and I go to Westfield State College in Westfield, Massachusetts. Just curious, but what’s it like? The future that is; are there flying cars? Are there robots running around? Do people teleport for means of transportation? If not, I’m not surprised. That’s what the people of the 1960’s dreamed of happening by the time the 2000’s showed up. None of it has happened; and I really don’t see it happening any time soon. Even though technology is getting better and better everyday, there’s no way all of it can happen. One main reason why I don’t see these happening is the fact that even as I write this, there is less and less oil available to supply to the world.
Oh, don’t worry, oil won’t just “run out”, that’s because “all oil production follows a bell curve. Oil is increasing plentiful on the up slope of the curve, and increasingly scarce and expensive on the down slope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the endowment of oil has been 50% depleted. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up.” (LATOC) The “peak” that was mentioned, scientists believe, very possibly occurred in the year 2005. So this means “the worldwide oil production in the year 2030 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world’s population in 2030 will be both much larger and much more oil dependent than it was in 1980.” (LATCO) So basically, the worldwide demand for oil will outpace the worldwide production of oil by a significant margin. And as a result, the price of oil will skyrocket, oil dependant economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode.
So, is there even any oil left for you and your generation? If there is, I wonder how much is left. If not, I for one am terribly sorry that my generation, the generations before me, and the generations following after mine have used all of it all up on you, and basically sending you into an “economic stone age”. The thing is that we, as a population just don’t care. We only think about ourselves, and how we are to live our own lives. Another thins was that we really didn’t realize how much oil was being used up each and everyday. Oil is the basic building block to civilization. Yes, it is mainly used as a source of heating homes, and used for transportation, but what most people don’t realize, is that oil is also in so many of everyday objects; for example, toothpaste.
Again, I truly am sorry that I helped ruin your lives, but at the same time, I’m also guilty of just not caring. You see, even though I know that oil will become scare, there’s nothing that I can do about, so I am just going to go with the flow, and live my life.
Yours Truly,
Shane McCartney
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
intro to last essay!!
Everyone knows as time goes on generations attitudes change toward everything. My generation was not the most productive, most mature, or even the smartest. Statistics show we have experimented with drugs and alcohol at a very early age and very consistently. We were the first generation introduces to the extreme advancements in technology as well. The generation that started the 21st century was a very lazy, stupid, useless group of kids.
im looking for a better hook if anyone wants to help out.
im looking for a better hook if anyone wants to help out.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Unfair United States Military Pay
What is the price of a life? Are there factors that determine this price? If the person has a family, if they are old or young, male or female could all be factors. These factors do not matter in the United States military. Whether a person is white or black, male of female, single or married they all receive the same pay. A wage that is hardly enough to support themselves, and almost never enough to support a family. The United States Military is greatly underpaid for the duties that they are required to perform. The risks that every soldier takes to serve their country deserve more money than what they are given. U.S. soldiers wake up every day knowing that it could be their last. U.S. soldiers are away from their families for months and even years at a time, missing some of the most important things in their loved ones lives. This can make military relationships almost impossible to maintain. The chance of having to take another person’s life can cause a mental and emotional trauma that is hard for a person to ever come back from. All of these risks come about 20,000 less than the average pay of a full time mailman according to the 2008 fiscal enlisted military pay and allowances.
The death toll since the war in Iraq started in April 2003 has broken 4,000 deaths in this last year. There have been over 16,000 troops who have been wounded in action and returned, and another 13,000 who have been too bad to return to service (United States Department of Defense). The number of deaths within the military has caused a great concern for many people within this country. The number of recruits to all branches of the military has dropped drastically in the last 4 years. Many feel this is due to the belief that there is not enough money offered for the chance of losing their life. Another opinion of why many people stopped enlisting in the service is that there is more money offered in civilian jobs with much less danger involved. Last year it was shown that military pay was up to 14% less than civilian jobs with the same education level in the private sector (Rand.org). The growth in the pay rate for civilians has grown more steadily and at a higher level than the pay of the military. This fact raises questions to potential soldiers, such as is it worth it to put my life on the line for less pay than I can make anywhere else. It also raises the question concerning leaving family behind while they leave to serve their country and what would their family do if they were to become injured or even die.
One of the hardest things for any person to do is to leave behind everything they love. The United States military can at many times require a person to do exactly that. The time spent away from loved ones can never be replaced. Many will argue that no amount of money could ever compensate for the missed moments in their loved ones life. The time away is not the only problem with the military lifestyle. According to “The Nation” research has shown that a military family on average moves every 3 years. This moving all the time mixed in with deployments and training can make families almost impossible to maintain within the military. The divorce rate in the military is around 3.5% according to the Department of Defense. It is much higher with women in the military, around 8%. The main reason for divorces within the military is PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress disorder. “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened (National Institute of Mental Health). This can occur from witnessing harm to others or doing the harm to others yourself.
According to MSNBC 1 in every 8 soldiers who have seen combat suffer from PTSD. The chance of having to take another life can cause serious mental and emotional problems for any person. Recovery from this kind of ordeal can take years, sometimes it never goes away. The medical help which soldiers may need to help with this disorder is paid for out of their own pocket. The money they make is not sufficient to pay this type of bill. It leaves many in debt and with a disabling mental problem for the rest of their life.
The majority of this countries workers do not get up in the morning wondering if they will live to see the night. These workers do not sit at work for months at a time wondering how their family is doing. These workers do not have to face down the fear of taking another person’s life. The United States military is greatly underpaid for the duties that they perform. It is time to stand up and give these soldiers what they deserve. It is time to give them the money they earn so they can live a better life than the one they are living to protect you.
Honor, duty, and freedom are all things us as Americans desire in our lives. The truth of it is that without the armed forces of this country freedom wouldn’t exist. With the freedom we receive comes great responsibility. A responsibility to act when things are not the way they should be. A responsibility to stand up and do what is right. We as a country should stand up and demand better pay for our protectors, our safe keepers. Now is the time, the chance for us to gain honor, something the U.S. military knows all about.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
big research paper!!
i never got professor meek's comments on my paper on legalizing medicinal marijuana. i need his comments in order to make my paper a lot better because now it sucks. i not too worried about it because i know im going to pass this class. i would like a little better grade to help my GPA though!! hope this is enough to cover for me for this week even though i completely disagree with this once a week blogging bs
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Outline
Shane McCartney
Kevin Meek
English 101+
April 12, 2009
Outline
I. Introduction:
Are you thinking about college? Then good for you! College is very important and it is something everyone should consider. It readies you for the real world with the hopes of that perfect job of yours waiting for you at the end of your journey. But, what would you say if I told you that you don’t have to spend the extra four years and the thousands of dollars? Sounds ludicrous don’t it? But in reality, you can actually go far in life with only a high school diploma.
Many people in the world have not gone to college, or even dropped out of college and have been extremely successful in life. Most of my family in fact has not gone to college, and yet they all live very fulfilling lives. In fact, it actually really is not rare for someone who does have a college degree not to get a job in there field of training, or even at all.
II. Point One:
It’s true, many people have either not gone to college, or have dropped out and have lived fulfilling lives, wealthy lives, or both. For example, one major name of someone that does not have a college degree would be the second richest man in the world, and many who call one of the smartest men in the world, a little some one called Bill Gates. Yes, that’s right; Bill Gates does not have a college degree. He indeed went to college, but had dropped out.
III. Point Two:
It’s not only rich and famous people that succeed without going to college; those are just the one’s that are most commonly known. Many members of my own family have not gone to college. The truth is that I am the first ever on my mother’s side of the family to go to college, and only the 4th ever on my father’s side. The point here is that I am the cousin on both sides of the family that separates the older from the younger, and that I have over 40 cousins from 17 aunts and uncles. So it’s not like there haven’t been others before me that had the opportunity to go to college. In fact, most of them chose to stay out of college on purpose because they had well paying jobs coming out of high school already.
IV. Opposing View Point:
CollegeBoard.com states that, “The world is changing rapidly. More and more jobs require education beyond high school. College graduates have more jobs to choose from than those who don't pursue education beyond high school.”
V. Counterargument:
Yes, the world is indeed changing more and more each day, but with this statement from CollegeBoard.com, it doesn’t say what kind of jobs, how much the different jobs would pay, and it doesn’t say that even with a college degree there is certainly no guarantee that the college graduate will even get a job. A person with only a high school diploma can have the same opportunity to get the same job, if not an even better job than someone with a college degree.
VI. Opposing View Point:
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “A person who goes to college earns more than a person who doesn't. On average, someone with a bachelor's degree earns $50,900. That's 62 percent more than the $31,500 earned annually by someone with only a high school diploma.”
VII. Counterargument:
I’m not sure who exactly the U.S Census Bureau is averaging in there statistics, but they seem to leave out that there are great paying jobs out there for anyone. Even people without a high school diploma!
A list from FindingsDirect.com shows the top ten highest paying jobs where you don’t have to spend a fortune or going to college for. These jobs rank anywhere in the range from $60K to $100K. The top ten jobs are: “Business Applications Programming, Web Design, Web Programming, Database Development, Business Analysis, Software Project Management, Software Testing, Computer Networking, Game Programming, and Data Analysis & Data Mining. It seems that there are only high paying jobs in the technology field, but the truth is, that this field of work is only a small piece of the overall product. The juggernaut of the working force is in construction, and its underlings. The average salary for someone in construction work is anywhere from only ten dollars an hour up to fifty or sixty dollars an hour. What really determines a person’s salary in the construction field are two things: 1. How much business there is, and 2. What they do for a job.
VIII. Conclusion:
College helps you to expand your knowledge and skills, it expresses your thoughts clearly in speech and in writing, it helps you to grasp abstract concepts and theories, and it increases your understanding of the world and your community.
Kevin Meek
English 101+
April 12, 2009
Outline
I. Introduction:
Are you thinking about college? Then good for you! College is very important and it is something everyone should consider. It readies you for the real world with the hopes of that perfect job of yours waiting for you at the end of your journey. But, what would you say if I told you that you don’t have to spend the extra four years and the thousands of dollars? Sounds ludicrous don’t it? But in reality, you can actually go far in life with only a high school diploma.
Many people in the world have not gone to college, or even dropped out of college and have been extremely successful in life. Most of my family in fact has not gone to college, and yet they all live very fulfilling lives. In fact, it actually really is not rare for someone who does have a college degree not to get a job in there field of training, or even at all.
II. Point One:
It’s true, many people have either not gone to college, or have dropped out and have lived fulfilling lives, wealthy lives, or both. For example, one major name of someone that does not have a college degree would be the second richest man in the world, and many who call one of the smartest men in the world, a little some one called Bill Gates. Yes, that’s right; Bill Gates does not have a college degree. He indeed went to college, but had dropped out.
III. Point Two:
It’s not only rich and famous people that succeed without going to college; those are just the one’s that are most commonly known. Many members of my own family have not gone to college. The truth is that I am the first ever on my mother’s side of the family to go to college, and only the 4th ever on my father’s side. The point here is that I am the cousin on both sides of the family that separates the older from the younger, and that I have over 40 cousins from 17 aunts and uncles. So it’s not like there haven’t been others before me that had the opportunity to go to college. In fact, most of them chose to stay out of college on purpose because they had well paying jobs coming out of high school already.
IV. Opposing View Point:
CollegeBoard.com states that, “The world is changing rapidly. More and more jobs require education beyond high school. College graduates have more jobs to choose from than those who don't pursue education beyond high school.”
V. Counterargument:
Yes, the world is indeed changing more and more each day, but with this statement from CollegeBoard.com, it doesn’t say what kind of jobs, how much the different jobs would pay, and it doesn’t say that even with a college degree there is certainly no guarantee that the college graduate will even get a job. A person with only a high school diploma can have the same opportunity to get the same job, if not an even better job than someone with a college degree.
VI. Opposing View Point:
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “A person who goes to college earns more than a person who doesn't. On average, someone with a bachelor's degree earns $50,900. That's 62 percent more than the $31,500 earned annually by someone with only a high school diploma.”
VII. Counterargument:
I’m not sure who exactly the U.S Census Bureau is averaging in there statistics, but they seem to leave out that there are great paying jobs out there for anyone. Even people without a high school diploma!
A list from FindingsDirect.com shows the top ten highest paying jobs where you don’t have to spend a fortune or going to college for. These jobs rank anywhere in the range from $60K to $100K. The top ten jobs are: “Business Applications Programming, Web Design, Web Programming, Database Development, Business Analysis, Software Project Management, Software Testing, Computer Networking, Game Programming, and Data Analysis & Data Mining. It seems that there are only high paying jobs in the technology field, but the truth is, that this field of work is only a small piece of the overall product. The juggernaut of the working force is in construction, and its underlings. The average salary for someone in construction work is anywhere from only ten dollars an hour up to fifty or sixty dollars an hour. What really determines a person’s salary in the construction field are two things: 1. How much business there is, and 2. What they do for a job.
VIII. Conclusion:
College helps you to expand your knowledge and skills, it expresses your thoughts clearly in speech and in writing, it helps you to grasp abstract concepts and theories, and it increases your understanding of the world and your community.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Work Better With Weed
Imagine living your life in gruesome pain that is unbearable to your body and mind. Now imagine a cure, but you can’t have it because you live in the wrong state. Medicinal marijuana has been a heated debate ever since Richard Nixon outlawed marijuana in 1969. Marijuana can cure many long and short-term illnesses such as arthritis, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, Crohn’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. Medicinal marijuana is already legal on ten states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Maryland. It doesn’t take a genius to know that our economy is very bad right now. America can not afford to have quality employees for any business unable to work due to an illness that can be cured. When properly prescribed by a doctor, medicinal marijuana will make sick people all around the country better so they can continue to work to their full potential.
Thousands of Americans around the country suffer everyday from illnesses like arthritis that prevents them from doing their job to the fullest extent. If medicinal marijuana was legal in all fifty states employees everywhere will be more productive. There are many facts physicians live by about medical marijuana such as, “marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.” Joycelyn Elders, M.D. wrote in a March 26, 2004 editorial published in the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. Almost everyone in America trusts every word doctors say.
Some doctors believe the side effects of marijuana are not worth the cure after smoking, "Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's medical benefits.” U.S. Senator Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN) wrote in an Oct. 20, 2003 letter to ProCon.org. When dealing with the more serious illnesses the reward is arguably worth the risk.
If medicinal marijuana did not help at all then it would not be legal in the ten states that it is. Those states have statistics that prove there employees that take medicinal marijuana are back to work faster and are more productive. Thus helping the states economy.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Dreams really do come true
I believe that dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings that one experiences while asleeping, and is strongly associated with rrapid eye movement sleep.
Not too long ago I had a dream that my aunt had a beautiful baby boy at a family gathering. The gathering was in an open field were there were hill tops covered with all types of flowers and different shades of grasses.It was simply amazing. I have never had a dream that was filled with such vibrant colors.Colors like light green, chartreuse, green yellow,Fuchsia,Dark Khaki,Deep Sky Blue mix with yellow and a little pink.There were so many bright colors in my dream that I felt like I was looking at this world with untrained eyes that felt like they were blistering up. That is how bright and beautiful this dream was.Well any way I was running through the field and I saw all of these joyous children running as well.
Suddenly I run into this child while he or she is picking up their ball and I see something that I unfortunately do not like.To what I thought I saw as he or she bent down to grab the ball were symbols that looked like "666" on his or her scalp hidden behind his or her blond hair.When the child came back up I looked at his or her face and it was not there. I was completely gone and it kind of looked like their face was washed or smudged away. I did say anything to that child. I just ran away and when I did it was like I had forgotten that horrible encounter.But it seemed a little strange to see such a thing. Don't you think so ? When I first saw this image I thought of my mother telling me to pray to god in my dream to prevent these horrible images from appearing in my mind but what do I know I never listen to her. I just forget about that and welcome whatever is to come.
As I continue my way into the realm of my dream I see even more elegant fields of wild California Poppy's, Maximilian Sunflowers, Texas Bluebonnets etc., and a magnificent forest that was formed in a sort of horse shoe shape along side the tall hills.It was an eye sore to just try to look at the top of the hill top but I did. I even claimed that monstrous hill just because. When I got to the top of the hill top I thought to myself what a sight it was .I could see everything so clearly like a photograph.I thought to myself it could not get any better that this.I could see my family for the first time celebrating joyously without any negative atmosphere flowing around them, I could see the way the tops of the trees swayed with the ever so crisp lemon scent breeze,as if the breeze were to ask the trees to dance,and I could see that beautiful red Orange, crimson sun over the horizon of that flawless clear velvet sky. Wow! If I had the ability to stay forever in this dream world I would but I knew that it is not possible. So I just lied back and drifted off into a daydream in my dream.Ha! Ha! Ha!
Then suddenly someone yells out my name. At first I thought that is just the clatter of my thoughts moving around in my mind but then I heard it again.This time I stood up to see who it was that was yelling my name.It was my cousin Priscilla yelling up from the bottom of the hill. Although I knew that she was yelling to me I could not hear her. So I decided to go down to see what was the matter but there was a problem. The hill top was so steep that I was afraid that I might come tumbling down it but I knew that I could not just ignore her. So I gathered all of my courage and carefully jogged down the hill.As I jogged down the hill I tripped on a rock that seemed to be dug into the ground.When I tripped I lost my balance and was going to land straight on my face.As I rapidly fell to a torturous spin bending doom I started to float in the air. I do not know what allowed me to float but I did not worry about that.I flew all the way down the hill towards my cousin.
When I arrived down the hill she told me that my aunt was having the baby. At this point I was very excited of the arrival of a new family member but I was a little pissed off because I could have broken my neck jogging down that hill.Everyone was every where but there was one big circle surrounding someone.At that moment I thought I knew it was too good to be true. I knew that My family could not survive not even one nice gathering without one fight and or quarrel.Slowly walking towards Priscilla, I asked her who was fighting this time. She looked at me like I was an idiot. Then she told me that it was my aunt that was surrounded by everyone having the baby. I went into complete shock mode.How could she have the baby out here on the grass.Then I heard the sweetest and scariest voice I could have ever heard.
It was my aunts voice.My aunt is the sweetest person you would ever meet. She is always smiling but I never seen a face like this combined with such a kind voice. A pregnant women.Men watch out because this is when they are the most fragile and fermium of all time. So if you like your hands I suggest that you not get too close to that lovely flower of your because she will grab anything that she could compress all of her energy into. She will use you like an antenna to conducting the electric volts of lightening into your hand,leg anything.Well anyway I was yelled at by my mother (the new fonded lightening rod of Zeus)to go get some towels for my aunt.
Going up these flight of stairs never felt more torturous in my life than today.Possibly because I do not know maybe it was it was three flights of stairs.Well I got the towels and ran down the stairs. I was excited I could not wait to see if it was a boy or a girl.Then once I arrive back with the towels they tell me that they do not need them anymore. Ooh!!! I was so pissed but I cooled down because I wanted to see the baby.
Before anyone can kiss and or slobber all over the baby I received the child personally from the barer of the child one who yells the loudest.I caress the child in my arms,hold him and check him out. I announce that it is a baby boy. It was wonderful. I walk in the building to the first, second,and third floors and announced the news.Finally when I get up to the third floor I show everyone the baby .When I show my grandmother she is so happy but for some reason I am distracted by something.I look at the pot and I ask my grandmother what she is cooking and she tells me yellow rice.For some reason when I look at the tiny grains that are along the outside of the pot they start move. Then there is when I find out that the grains of rice are tiny maggots.
I then woke up called my mother and told her about my dream and to my and her surprise as well that exact day she had just found out that my aunt was pregnant.THis was one of the most amazing dreams that I have ever had.
After having this dream I wondered to myself how long does a dream last? Well since I was so intrigued by the many dreams that i have I decided to find it out. I used the Google search engine, and typed in the question,"How long is a dream?" I had found out that the time period of a dream is called a Rem period. A REM sleep period are dreams that last as long as five to forty five minutes long,even though the known time that is spent in a dream is much longer than that. A reason for such a time stretch in a dream would possibly be because dreams are combined from pieces that have their own different setting in time. A dreamer would first dream of something that possibly happened a year ago, then following that dream would possibly come something that occurred just recently, then the dreams would blend together and the dreamer is left with a feeling of a dream that lasted the length of a year.That is pretty incredible if I say so myself but experiments that have been conducted suggest that dreamed actions run in real time. So what a dreamer would do in his or her dream would take exactly this time to dream. With external influences from the dream, like the radio running in the morning, the dreamer would have both the real time in which you hear something and sometimes the feeling that it the dream lasted longer than expected. Time is definitely the apprehending aspects that is heavily distorted in ones dreams.
Of course every person on earth dreams every night. As a matter a fact even mammals dream . It must be that something extremely wonderful must be going on while we sleep and dream, even though in the industrialized world that we live in today, a great number of people pay little attention to there dreams, and sometimes deprive themselves of sleep because it is apprehended as a loss of time and unproductive. It is amazing that we human beings would deprive ourselves of such a luxurious feeling to rest and rejuvenate oneself. It is just like depriving oneself mind of oxygen. Without oxygen you can not breath ,therefore you can not function. Same goes for the body. Without sleep your body will feel tired, you cannot think straight, therefore your mind and body will fail at any productive activities you do.Dreams encompass an entire dimension of experience, a world as yet unexplored by most, where a fascinating world of activity awaits discovery and possible harvest for greater fulfillment in waking life. The challenge is again the same common daily experience for the average person offers little proof of this other reality, let alone the possible value of this other dimension of experience, unless one can gain perspective from outside the nine to five work day structure.Dreams relate mental skills such as dream recall or dream interpretation and information on subjects such as the meaning of nightmares or foreknowledge dreams is not usually taught in our institutions, and the majority of our parents knew or passed on little about the value of dreams as we grew up. So it is no big surprise that many adults remember a few or no dreams at all, and even more rarely think or set out to interpret the guidance and mine the jewels of creative inspiration hidden just below the surface of consciousness in dreams. Basically, nobody told us or showed us how dreams can be extremely practical.The result of where this long-standing trend of disregarding dreams has brought society is that the current misdirected notions about the value of dreams are not only extremely misunderstood, but also represent and even brought along a lack of connection with the subconscious and our own deeper nature. This artificial rift may indirectly, or even rather directly be the source for many of our current personal, cultural and planetary social, political, and environmental challenges.One solution towards re balancing and integration on a personal and eventually a planetary level, is for each of us to realize and begin to investigate how our personal dreams, at very least, each night offer a direct means to explore inner reality and gain unique, undeniable experiences of deep personal value. Dreams do indeed offer opportunities for fun, adventure, wish fulfillment, creativity, deep personal insight and healing and dreams offer all this at no cost.
Not too long ago I had a dream that my aunt had a beautiful baby boy at a family gathering. The gathering was in an open field were there were hill tops covered with all types of flowers and different shades of grasses.It was simply amazing. I have never had a dream that was filled with such vibrant colors.Colors like light green, chartreuse, green yellow,Fuchsia,Dark Khaki,Deep Sky Blue mix with yellow and a little pink.There were so many bright colors in my dream that I felt like I was looking at this world with untrained eyes that felt like they were blistering up. That is how bright and beautiful this dream was.Well any way I was running through the field and I saw all of these joyous children running as well.
Suddenly I run into this child while he or she is picking up their ball and I see something that I unfortunately do not like.To what I thought I saw as he or she bent down to grab the ball were symbols that looked like "666" on his or her scalp hidden behind his or her blond hair.When the child came back up I looked at his or her face and it was not there. I was completely gone and it kind of looked like their face was washed or smudged away. I did say anything to that child. I just ran away and when I did it was like I had forgotten that horrible encounter.But it seemed a little strange to see such a thing. Don't you think so ? When I first saw this image I thought of my mother telling me to pray to god in my dream to prevent these horrible images from appearing in my mind but what do I know I never listen to her. I just forget about that and welcome whatever is to come.
As I continue my way into the realm of my dream I see even more elegant fields of wild California Poppy's, Maximilian Sunflowers, Texas Bluebonnets etc., and a magnificent forest that was formed in a sort of horse shoe shape along side the tall hills.It was an eye sore to just try to look at the top of the hill top but I did. I even claimed that monstrous hill just because. When I got to the top of the hill top I thought to myself what a sight it was .I could see everything so clearly like a photograph.I thought to myself it could not get any better that this.I could see my family for the first time celebrating joyously without any negative atmosphere flowing around them, I could see the way the tops of the trees swayed with the ever so crisp lemon scent breeze,as if the breeze were to ask the trees to dance,and I could see that beautiful red Orange, crimson sun over the horizon of that flawless clear velvet sky. Wow! If I had the ability to stay forever in this dream world I would but I knew that it is not possible. So I just lied back and drifted off into a daydream in my dream.Ha! Ha! Ha!
Then suddenly someone yells out my name. At first I thought that is just the clatter of my thoughts moving around in my mind but then I heard it again.This time I stood up to see who it was that was yelling my name.It was my cousin Priscilla yelling up from the bottom of the hill. Although I knew that she was yelling to me I could not hear her. So I decided to go down to see what was the matter but there was a problem. The hill top was so steep that I was afraid that I might come tumbling down it but I knew that I could not just ignore her. So I gathered all of my courage and carefully jogged down the hill.As I jogged down the hill I tripped on a rock that seemed to be dug into the ground.When I tripped I lost my balance and was going to land straight on my face.As I rapidly fell to a torturous spin bending doom I started to float in the air. I do not know what allowed me to float but I did not worry about that.I flew all the way down the hill towards my cousin.
When I arrived down the hill she told me that my aunt was having the baby. At this point I was very excited of the arrival of a new family member but I was a little pissed off because I could have broken my neck jogging down that hill.Everyone was every where but there was one big circle surrounding someone.At that moment I thought I knew it was too good to be true. I knew that My family could not survive not even one nice gathering without one fight and or quarrel.Slowly walking towards Priscilla, I asked her who was fighting this time. She looked at me like I was an idiot. Then she told me that it was my aunt that was surrounded by everyone having the baby. I went into complete shock mode.How could she have the baby out here on the grass.Then I heard the sweetest and scariest voice I could have ever heard.
It was my aunts voice.My aunt is the sweetest person you would ever meet. She is always smiling but I never seen a face like this combined with such a kind voice. A pregnant women.Men watch out because this is when they are the most fragile and fermium of all time. So if you like your hands I suggest that you not get too close to that lovely flower of your because she will grab anything that she could compress all of her energy into. She will use you like an antenna to conducting the electric volts of lightening into your hand,leg anything.Well anyway I was yelled at by my mother (the new fonded lightening rod of Zeus)to go get some towels for my aunt.
Going up these flight of stairs never felt more torturous in my life than today.Possibly because I do not know maybe it was it was three flights of stairs.Well I got the towels and ran down the stairs. I was excited I could not wait to see if it was a boy or a girl.Then once I arrive back with the towels they tell me that they do not need them anymore. Ooh!!! I was so pissed but I cooled down because I wanted to see the baby.
Before anyone can kiss and or slobber all over the baby I received the child personally from the barer of the child one who yells the loudest.I caress the child in my arms,hold him and check him out. I announce that it is a baby boy. It was wonderful. I walk in the building to the first, second,and third floors and announced the news.Finally when I get up to the third floor I show everyone the baby .When I show my grandmother she is so happy but for some reason I am distracted by something.I look at the pot and I ask my grandmother what she is cooking and she tells me yellow rice.For some reason when I look at the tiny grains that are along the outside of the pot they start move. Then there is when I find out that the grains of rice are tiny maggots.
I then woke up called my mother and told her about my dream and to my and her surprise as well that exact day she had just found out that my aunt was pregnant.THis was one of the most amazing dreams that I have ever had.
After having this dream I wondered to myself how long does a dream last? Well since I was so intrigued by the many dreams that i have I decided to find it out. I used the Google search engine, and typed in the question,"How long is a dream?" I had found out that the time period of a dream is called a Rem period. A REM sleep period are dreams that last as long as five to forty five minutes long,even though the known time that is spent in a dream is much longer than that. A reason for such a time stretch in a dream would possibly be because dreams are combined from pieces that have their own different setting in time. A dreamer would first dream of something that possibly happened a year ago, then following that dream would possibly come something that occurred just recently, then the dreams would blend together and the dreamer is left with a feeling of a dream that lasted the length of a year.That is pretty incredible if I say so myself but experiments that have been conducted suggest that dreamed actions run in real time. So what a dreamer would do in his or her dream would take exactly this time to dream. With external influences from the dream, like the radio running in the morning, the dreamer would have both the real time in which you hear something and sometimes the feeling that it the dream lasted longer than expected. Time is definitely the apprehending aspects that is heavily distorted in ones dreams.
Of course every person on earth dreams every night. As a matter a fact even mammals dream . It must be that something extremely wonderful must be going on while we sleep and dream, even though in the industrialized world that we live in today, a great number of people pay little attention to there dreams, and sometimes deprive themselves of sleep because it is apprehended as a loss of time and unproductive. It is amazing that we human beings would deprive ourselves of such a luxurious feeling to rest and rejuvenate oneself. It is just like depriving oneself mind of oxygen. Without oxygen you can not breath ,therefore you can not function. Same goes for the body. Without sleep your body will feel tired, you cannot think straight, therefore your mind and body will fail at any productive activities you do.Dreams encompass an entire dimension of experience, a world as yet unexplored by most, where a fascinating world of activity awaits discovery and possible harvest for greater fulfillment in waking life. The challenge is again the same common daily experience for the average person offers little proof of this other reality, let alone the possible value of this other dimension of experience, unless one can gain perspective from outside the nine to five work day structure.Dreams relate mental skills such as dream recall or dream interpretation and information on subjects such as the meaning of nightmares or foreknowledge dreams is not usually taught in our institutions, and the majority of our parents knew or passed on little about the value of dreams as we grew up. So it is no big surprise that many adults remember a few or no dreams at all, and even more rarely think or set out to interpret the guidance and mine the jewels of creative inspiration hidden just below the surface of consciousness in dreams. Basically, nobody told us or showed us how dreams can be extremely practical.The result of where this long-standing trend of disregarding dreams has brought society is that the current misdirected notions about the value of dreams are not only extremely misunderstood, but also represent and even brought along a lack of connection with the subconscious and our own deeper nature. This artificial rift may indirectly, or even rather directly be the source for many of our current personal, cultural and planetary social, political, and environmental challenges.One solution towards re balancing and integration on a personal and eventually a planetary level, is for each of us to realize and begin to investigate how our personal dreams, at very least, each night offer a direct means to explore inner reality and gain unique, undeniable experiences of deep personal value. Dreams do indeed offer opportunities for fun, adventure, wish fulfillment, creativity, deep personal insight and healing and dreams offer all this at no cost.
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