The beauty of imperfection

    I thin that fighting for our country means fighting for its' people. Fighting for its theories, beliefs, morals, and history. When fighting for America, I think we are fighting for our right to change, to speak, to give opinions, and to live freely.
      People are flawed, and so, governments are flawed. I don't think you can speak to any solider and have them tell you that no matter what the government is always right and will never lead you down the wrong path. But what makes fighting for a flawed country so great is because we are able to fight to correct and fix those flaws. We can protest wars, policies, decisions, anything that the government passes. We have the right to stand up against our government and try to fix a flawed or broken system. Being patriotic does not mean that you have to think your country is perfect in every way. I think it simply means to be proud of where you come from and to fight to keep enemies from overtaking the values and area that you are from. Yes, pride may be a human flaw, but it does not mean that we shouldn't fight to try to keep outsiders from trying to change us, when we can simply change ourselves. 

The reason behind it all

       I don't think we can ever have true proof of anything in psychology. Sure we can have things that happen most often, but every single person is different, and have had so many different experiences and so there is no one set law or rule for everyone. There is so many things in all science, psychology included, that have no definite explanation. Maybe there are invisible goblins that pull things down to the ground and not gravity, but we will never know. I think that is what makes science so fascinating; there will always be a new theory to investigate, or a new person to interview and figure out. I don't think there is one reason behind an action in the world of psychology. But in the wold of other sciences, that may be a different story. All I know is, we will never know for sure. 

My idea of Nightmares

      Nightmares wake us up. Ever wonder why? Well here is my explanation, I'm not sure if it goes along with Freud's views, or someone else's ideas, but this is my theory. 
     Our nightmares are still wishes that we have, just a different kind of wish. I believe that nightmares are more unconscious wishes that we have. Wishes that we are afraid of having, and don't want to admit that they exist. We hide them so deep in our unconscious that we forget that they exist, and simply classify it as a fear, when really it is a wish we are afraid to have. When we have nightmares we wake up. I think this is because our conscious is becoming aware of it. When our conscious is aware of what is going on, it forces the body to wake up, because it doesn't want to deal with the suppressed wishes that are coming to surface. Either that or is still only sees it as a fear and so it makes sure to wake up to protect itself from the fears.
      Sure, my theory may be a bit out there, but its what I think. I wonder if Freud would agree with me.

a DREAM is a WISH your heart makes

       Some may say that wishes instigate dreams. I believe in that statement whole heartedly. When I dream it is about things that I want to happen. Sure, it may be a bit abstract, or hard to understand, but i know that it is something that I want to happen. I know that when I'm dreaming about being best friends with a celebrity I admire, it is something that I wish would happen, and so I dreamed it. I think a lot of the time we have to live out these wishes in dream because other wise we would often times never get to experience them. I think that often times dreaming occurs so that we do not go completely insane from all the wants and wishes that we, as humans have. Without dreams we would be so constantly consumed with thoughts and desires that we wouldn't be able to concentrate normally. Dreams allow us to play out and feel like we are living our wishes enough so they do not constantly consume our very being. ...But that's just me.

Ice burg! Straight ahead!

       I really liked how the layers of consciousness was compared to an ice burg. It made it an easy visual to think about how the layers of our mind, according to Freud are laid out.  If you think about it, it makes a lot of since. I believe that a person is only aware of a small portion of themselves; they only know the top of the ice burg. As the ice burg gets deeper and deeper into the water, it becomes bigger and wider. I believe that out pre-conscious and our unconscious are so much larger than what we would assume. Think about it. More often than not we don't know what we think or dream things, and too often we don't know why we mixed up two words, or said or did something we didn't mean. Our layers of consciousness really are like an ice burg. The deeper you travel, the wider, bigger, and more complicated it gets.