Colleen Cook-Dreams

The other day in class we were talking about the difference between subjective and objective selves. We talked about how when one is a subject they are aware of their emotions and feelings. Being an object is having senses that we are able to use to know the world around us such as having a physical body and being able to touch other objects. Dreams were brought up and we talked about how they may seem real to us because it is our objective self in the dream living but it is in a different world where our feelings may or may not be real. Is it our same physical self experiencing our dream? I don't see it as our bodies being in the dream as our more our mind making up these thoughts in our head. As we talked about this I was thinking about the night before where a few friends and I watched Nightmare on Elm Street. It was ironic that I had just watched this because the characters have extremely intense dreams that BECOME real. Somehow Freddy goes from just an illusion in their dream to actually taking their lives away from them. It was crazy to me how this was possible. Obviously, it was "just a movie" so it wasn't a true reality but it has much to do with what we talked about. What related the most to us talking about our physical bodies/minds being within our dreams was at the end of the movie where the main character realizes she can control her dream. She was able to capture Freddy's physical body and pull him out with her when she woke up from her sleep. He comes into her reality, her objective world, and is destroyed. Crazy!