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Creating Psychological and Symbolic Elements

4/9/2015

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The use of dream content in a novel can show readers why a character acts in a certain way, even if the character does not seem to understand his/her own actions. For example, on page 300 of Mayflower Dreams, the protagonist is dreaming as she remembers something that happened in her past. She watches a memory version of herself. Her past, present, and future are connected together as she relives an event from her past that result in anxiety about her present and future life:

                        Rose knew what was going to happen next. She said, “Oh,
              no” as she saw the memory version of herself shifting her weight
              again; her left knee buckled. To avoid falling down the stairs, she
              had grabbed onto the stairway railing with both of her hands. The
              laundry basket fell down the stairs. The memory version of Rose
              did not fall, but her knee really hurt as she slowly walked down
              the rest of the stairs, picked up the basket, moved the clothes into
              the washer, and started the machine. When she turned around
              to begin the painful journey back up the stairs, she paused for
              
a moment and looked directly at the spot where the real Rose
              from the future was standing. The real Rose was invisible to the
    
         memory Rose, but the real Rose knew that the memory version
              of herself was thinking about the future and about possibly never
              getting better. In the past, she had asked herself, “What will
              happen if I have to spend the rest of my life with this pain?” She
              had not yet found an answer to her question. (Petit 300)

                                             Work Cited
Petit, Karen. Mayflower Dreams. Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC, 2014. Print.


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Creating the Content of a Dream

4/2/2015

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Using lucid dreaming techniques can help people to sometimes control the focus and content of their dreams. Dr. Petit, like many other people, thinks about her family, friends, and work before falling asleep. The result is she often dreams about her family, friends, and work. Petit has used parts of her own dreams to help create content in both of her novels: Banking on Dreams and Mayflower Dreams.
In Banking on Dreams, two of the characters--Lisa and Mike--try to dream the same dream by focusing their thoughts on similar content. This excerpt from page 193 of Petit's novel shows some of the dialogue between the two characters as they make plans for their future dreams:


                 “Well, supposedly, concentrating on something right before going to sleep might result in
          having a lucid dream—or a regular dream—about the area of concentration. In other words,
          if I think about the bank right before going to sleep, I might dream about the bank.”


                “That explains why I dream about work so much, including guns, shoot-outs, prison, and
          car chases. I even have dreams about all of the paperwork, like the reports.” After Mike thought
          for a moment, he added, “Would you like to try something?”


                 “Okay. What?”

                 Mike smiled, and his eyes showed his excitement. “Let’s both try to dream about
          the same thing tonight and see what happens.” (Petit 193)


                                                                     Work Cited
Petit, Karen. Banking on Dreams. Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC, 2012. Print.



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