My reaction to the idea of sharing dreams sounds weird to me. Like why do you need to hear about my dream. Also why do people have to share everything in this community. They have to share there feelings in the evening and have to share there dreams? To me it sounds like the community doesn't want anyone to keep secrets. But I guess that the community's leader doesn't want anyone to keep secrets because maybe he thinks that they will take over the community and make it like the out side world.This is what I think about sharing dreams.I think the community insists on people sharing there dream because when you are dreaming you don't think about things and your mind just flows. By sharing your dreams its like sharing your feelings because when you dream your "true" feelings show. I wouldn't want to share my dream because i think that dreams should be personal. Its where people's minds are free spirits. Its where what ever you think about before you go to sleep you get to live in a dream. This is what i think about on the concept of sharing dreams to each other.
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Chris
1/27/2014 08:01:57 am
I think it would be a good idea because maybe you have some problems to deal with and you can just let it out during dinner time. I think you would have more family time rather than everyone in their own room while someone is out working. You would have more support and attention then holding it in and bottling it all up inside. If we had discussions like these then we would all be more loose and happy because we have let everything go and expressed ourselves and if we have a problem, then people would start to follow the rules instead of putting the problem into their own hands and be thinking that they are their own solution to their own problems and start to add violence and inappropriate things to others. We all have aggression but only when we have to hold it in for ourselves and can’t tell others.
I think we would all be happy if we could tell our family members our problems then you would have a looser mind and be able to think more powerfully then rather upset or uptight. It could be a bad or disgusting dream that you don’t want to share with others but if you did, then everyone could help you in your time of need and focus on different things and help you destroy your problems rather than creating more than you should have.
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Jovan
1/27/2014 08:05:05 am
My reactions to the fact that the community always shares their dreams each morning doesn't really surprise me. I'm pretty sure most families do this any way. Plus, the Council that is in controls already controls every body's future, love life, and body. Why not what they do at home too? The Council controls everything. They're like the Fates from Greek mythology. They control everything a person in their community does. The only thing they don't control is when somebody dies. I think that the community insists on this so that they know when children start to have their Stirrings. Then they can keep control of their perfect little society. Also, I think they do it to make the family unit bond. Everybody can sort of grasp each other's personality. I would be willing to share some of my dreams. But I probably wouldn't share anything embarrassing, or anything personal. I would probably only share things that don't make sense, like a monkey driving a police cruiser with his feet or something. I would also share nightmares, because I guess I would like to see if my parents can explain the dream. But most of the time I probably wouldn't share my dreams, mainly because there isn't any point in sharing a dream, or because nobody needs to hear my dreams.
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maggie waskito :{)
1/27/2014 08:21:08 am
My reaction to the idea of sharing my dreams with my family is that it would be nice to talk about our dreams. But if we have to talk about the weird sexual dreams and also the scary dreams then it is ok because it would help us understand better what our dreams mean and maybe why we are having them. I would talk about my dreams with my family so I could make better sense of them and try to figure out what they mean and why I am having them. Sometimes I think I have weird dreams because of something I ate or watched on TV so that makes my brain think strange things too. I think the community insists on this because they need them not to have sexual dreams so they don't get married and have babies.But it would help them to get the dreams out of their minds as well. The community also insists on them telling their dreams so they can control what the people are thinking and take away what their dreams actually mean. They are also doing this so they don't act on their dreams either thinking that their dreams are the right thing to do.
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Vickram Dhillon
1/27/2014 08:32:19 am
Sharing my dreams with my family would be very awkward. Especially if I have to tell the truth. I would not feel comfortable because I rarely share my feelings or dreams with anyone. I wonder how Jonas and everyone else feels sharing their dreams every morning. I think this a pointless rule because who would actually care about what you dream every morning. I think the community made this rule to determine what your assignment will be at the ceremony of Twelve. Also, I believe they share their dreams to trust their family or find connections between each other. I definitely would not be willing to share my dreams because like I already said, it would be awkward and I do not like sharing what's on my mind to others. I am pretty sure that everyone listens to the same dream everyday so people might bored of hearing the same things. I think that the pills are used to calm you down when you have a dream that has to do with love and/or affection. Also, I think the dreams are called Stirrings. The author said that Jonas wanted to bathe Fiona and now he has to take pills. In my opinion the dream sharing rule is very stupid.
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Anthony
1/27/2014 09:01:01 am
I think it is okay for this utopia with sharing your dreams each night with your family. It can help so if the dream is troubling you like Jonas’ dream your family could be able to help you like Jonas’ mom did when she gave him the special pills to stop his stirrings. I think the community insists on it because than the children have to share their dreams and the parents can see if they are beginning to get stirrings so they can give the pills to get rid of any stirrings instead of never knowing when their children have stirrings and when to give them the pills. They can also keep track and find out what they dream about each day and the elders could also use the dreams to find out what kind of person they are, about what their strengths interests, and peeves are and they can also use them to find out more on what assignment the twelves will want after they become thirteens so they can know what assignment to give to the children when they become a thirteen, making it less likely for a twelve to get a permanent assignment that they do not like.
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Priya
1/27/2014 09:11:16 am
I think it is kind of weird and awkward to share your personal dreams with your family. Maybe others don't think it's awkward because they do share, but I never shared my dreams with my parents, brothers, or relatives before and I also don't think I ever will. My dreams are really personal and embarrassing and cheap, for example a dream about when it was christmas and I got a million presents. I don't think it is good to share your dreams because you can get embarrassed and ashamed of yourself. I think the community insists on this because they want to know what kind of dreams people are having and if they need a treatment or not. They wouldn't want them to be embarassed, but they might just want to recover them from certain dreams. I would obviously not share my dreams with anyone because I don't trust them to keep it with them only and I don't believe that they won't laugh or make fun of me. By sharing my dreams with my family would be wierd because my family and I never share things like dreams with each other because it leads to questions and sadness because someone laughed at a dream. Anyways I wouldn't share my dreams every day because to me it's awkward.
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GURVIR AKA SWISH MASTER
1/27/2014 10:02:27 am
I think sharing our dreams with our family should not happen. It should not happen because sometimes our dreams are personal and its a little weird discussing with your family what you dreamed about last night. And sometimes you even forget what you dreamed about. I think the community makes you do this every night just so the parents know what your dreaming about. Or it can be the dreaming like what your dreaming to be or what's the job that you always dream of having so it is easier for you to get assigned to a job. I am not willing to share my dreams with my family each night because 1. its really weird. 2. Pretty much all my dream's are about hockey. Like I play for the Canucks and its the Stanley Cup Finals and it's in overtime and I have a Penalty shot and if I score the goal I can win the Cup for the Canucks. those are mostly my dreams at night. 3. I usually forget my dreams so I could not discuss my dream. And why would the community make you discuss your dreams with your family. It's just weird.
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Nav.G
1/27/2014 12:46:21 pm
Swish master?Right......
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Sufyan
1/27/2014 10:38:39 am
I think sharing dreams can be embarrassing, frustrating, or annoying because there was an embarrassing or frustrating event taking place in the dream. Ex. Jonas didn't want to share what was going on in his dream because he was embarrassed by it and it was kind of personal. My reaction was surprise because they are able to share embarrassing dreams with each other even though they felt uncomfortable sharing them with each other. I think the community insists and are strict on this because if they kept the stirrings a secret and don't take the pills that could mess up the order in the community and it can also help you forget about it avoiding any trouble. Ex. Jonas had a romantic stirring that would cause trouble if he didn't take pills because he would probably want to get engaged with Fiona. I think sharing a dream that makes you uncomfortable is brave, but you can also get help so that you don't feel a certain way. I share funny dreams sometimes with my friends and family, but their are also dreams I don't feel comfortable sharing with anyone because they are scary or embarrassing.
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karan
1/27/2014 10:45:27 am
I think that you should not share your dream with your family because what if you have a dream that you do not like would you what to share it with your family, no you would share it with your mom or dad. Sometimes your dreams could horrible. You would not what your little sister listening to those kind of dreams. I think the community whats you to tell what kinds of dreams do you have and they are teaching kids not to be shy to your parents. It teach them to talk to every one in that community. Plus the kids have the guts to talk to other peoples. I con't share my dreams with my whole family because some dreams are not for little brothers or sisters. If I had to share my dreams I will would only share it with my mom or dad. :)
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Divya
1/27/2014 11:03:25 am
My reaction to telling my dreams out loud to my family would be very awkward, frustrating and uncomfortable for me. That is because my older sister would always lagged at me but for some dreams I think everybody will be laughing. I think that the community insisted on saying all of your dreams out loud to your family because if you have something on your mind about your dream you tell your dream then your parents would comment on your dream. Also if you had a dream like Jonas's then your parents will talk to you about your dream and tell them it's apart of puberty. Then you have to go to someone and ask for the pills. For he pills I think it is for when you reach puberty I think that the pills help you to not have those types of dreams anymore. The reason for that is because that maybe they don't want people having crushes or flirting with someone. That is because you are not aloud to marry someone you like you get assigned a spous so then you don't make babies because that is the birth mothers job.
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Aaron W
1/27/2014 12:11:37 pm
I would be willing to share it, but I only shared it a few times. Because it's really confusing. Sometimes, I would forget about the dream. It's confusing because you can't really make out the event, like first it's first person view, and you're doing something, then it turned into third person view. Then the events could turn into stories someone was telling. That's how confusing it is. So that's probably why the community insist on reporting dream stirring. It might also make people uneasy, and the community won't want people to be troubled, so they might try to get rid of the problems that's causing the people to have nightmares. The dream stirring could also affect health so that's why the people who have dream stirring takes pills. Also, there might be things that irrigate someone, like not knowing your job, and other stuff, and being so anxious about something that you actually dreamed about doing it before the event took place. And the result in the dream mostly comes out bad, like the least you would want to happen. That’s because you are scared that it might happen. That’s the reason the community insist on telling it and take pills.
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John 300k
1/27/2014 12:22:54 pm
My reaction to the idea would be crazy. Sometimes I feel comfortable (especially when it is a funny dream). Most of the time I do not have dreams but if I do I don’t usually share them because they are mostly personal and I want only myself to know about my dreams. Now each night can’t be acceptable I cannot do that at all the time. Never hiding things from my parents just that I don’t even feel comfortable to tell my really close friends about my dreams. Maybe the community wants people not to keep secrets from people so they are forced because what they have a dream of someone being “released” and that maybe a secret oath that you can’t keep secrets about Releasing.
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Nav.G
1/27/2014 12:47:04 pm
For me, the idea of sharing your dreams isn't exactly ideal. I mean, I'm pretty sure that if someone had a bad dream, most people wouldn't be willing to revisit the most likely horrific events. Or what if you dreamt about something very private, and you didn't want to share. I'm still wondering to what would happen if you didn't share, or if you lied about your dream. The community probably insists on dream telling because they want to know what you are dreaming about. Also they might be wondering if you had started stirring or not. I'm not exactly sure why they dream tell, but this is my theory. Would I be willing to share my dreams? Of course not! I wouldn't be willing to dream tell because I don't want them snooping around my dreams. The community will probably force me to take some sort of pill because they do not like the dreams that I am dreaming. Not everything that I dream needs to be a direct broadcast to the community. To be honest, the community is just being plain mean. I mean, if you like someone, they shouldn't be able to completely shut down all of your feelings for others. Those are my reactions to the dream telling.
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Karmin
1/27/2014 01:19:14 pm
There are usually two directions that sharing your dreams with your parents can go. One is you share your dream with them, only to have them stomp on it with a few unsupportive words. There’s a breed of control freaks that quietly lurk, ready to attack your precious, vulnerable ideas as soon as you share them with the world. These people are known as non-supporters or dream killers. Regardless of where you encounter them, non-supporters all have the same toxic tendency, they get off on popping bubbles, raining on parades, throwing wet blankets on ambitions, and farting on dreams. “What’s that? You dreamt of traveling to Sweden?” Impracticable! Another direction it can take is you dream up a plan that excites you to the core of your being; it may be an adventure, a new career path, an artistic pursuit, or a crazy invention. You’ll probably want to share your dream with friends, family and co-workers. You’ll want to come out of the closet with your grandiose dream. Sometimes they will pat you on the back and say, “GO FOR IT,” but as mentioned earlier they can also get off on taking a dump in your happiness sandwich. My parents are very supportive and understanding so it won’t be awkward telling them the dream I had the previous night every morning.
The community insists on the sharing of dreams because for example Jonas had a dream where he was in the bathing room at the House of the Old and there was only one tub. And the real bathing room has rows and rows of them. Jonas had taken off his tunic and was bare, as the room was warm and damp. In the room there was only Fiona and himself standing beside the tub. Fiona was laughing and Jonas was a bit angry at her for not taking him seriously. Jonas was convincing her that she should get into the tub of water. He wanted her to take off her clothes and get into the tub, so he could bathe her. He had the sponge in his hand, but she wouldn’t and continued to laugh and say no. Jonas knew that she wouldn’t and that she shouldn’t, but he wanted it so terribly. He could feel the wanting all through him. This dream is the starting of the Stirrings. And there are pills taken for the treatment. The pills prevented the Stirrings from coming back. The part that Jonas had shared his dreams with his family was a thing that the community insists of because if Jonas had not shared his feelings and dream with his family they wouldn’t have know about the Stirrings and then the pills wouldn’t have been given to prevent them so they would come back.
I personally would not have any embarrassment or problem speaking of my dream to my parents. Reason being, I go along and I learn more life lessons and new things when discussing my dream with my parents. It also helps me let go of things that have preciously ended up bothering me through dreams and other things. It seems this recent lesson came and smacked me right between the eyes in a good way. Enlightenment is always brought when I share my dreams and it’s good because you understand life better and deal with it in a more appropriate manner. What I realized recently has been a bit hard to grasp yet I accepted it readily. It allows me to express my feelings and thoughts and question things that happened in my dreams and if they were to happen in real life it gives that sense and awareness if that was ever to happen. To be honest sometimes when I share my dreams sometimes I drench in tears and before I’d share I feel a bit queasy and unsure. After I share my dream with my parents I feel at ease and suddenly comforted. A few weeks ago I had a terrible dream. In this very dream I had lost someone who is very close to me and it was a tragic event to have dreamt of. It was too much to bear so I had shared my dream with my parents and it helped me get through this. My relative was shot in my dream and I was standing there, it was too much to keep to myself. I reflected on this a while and I realized a consistent pattern that applies to life as well. If something isn't working right or breaks down then you have to make the decision to change it pay a price, take a risk to get a much better quality of life and be happier. In the interm you need to do the hard thing and let go to rebuild. That is the hardest part. Sharing this dream and these thoughts with my family helps me get through times that are too hard for me to face alone. In conclusion, I would like to state that I would be willing to share my dreams with my family.
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Sanam
1/27/2014 01:42:45 pm
In my opinion, the idea of sharing your dreams in front of your family is really embarrassing and uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how Jonas shared his dream with his family, put other dreams aside but that dream was very nasty. The leader's in Jonas' community want people to share their dreams because they don't want their community to get over populated. So they give them pills to stop them from thinking about inappropriate things. I have mixed feeling about sharing your dreams with your family. The negative part is that what if it's inappropriate like Jonas' dream then how are you supposed to express your feelings. On the other hand the positive part of sharing your dreams is that maybe your family could help you get over your dream and give you really good advice to follow. Maybe the ceremony of Twelve helps kids get over having hopes and dreams.
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Riya :)
1/27/2014 01:44:06 pm
I, personally, think sharing your dreams in the morning with your family is a very peculiar idea. My reaction to this is that I don’t like the idea. I dislike the idea of sharing your dreams in the morning because what if it’s a private dream? It is said that 75% of dreams contain secret messages. Maybe someone doesn’t want anyone to hear their dreams because they’ve realized the secret messages, and don’t want to reveal them. Lots of dreams have different meanings and feelings, someone shouldn’t have to reveal their dreams if they don’t wish to. Also, what if someone doesn’t have a dream? If nobody in the family had a dream, they would be breaking the law. And if one didn’t want to hear another ones dream, they would have to even if it was boring. What if someone forgot their dream? In a situation where they forget their dream, what would they do then? All of these little things make it hard for a law like that to happen, to tell dreams in the morning. I think it is a weird idea to describe your dreams because there could be little reasons why you can’t tell your dreams. That rule is made up by the leaders of the community; they must have a reason for that rule. I think the leaders of the community made up that law because they don’t want any secrets. Secrets often relates to problems, so the community wants to prevent them by every family telling their feeling at night and dreams in the mornings. Basically, to keep from any secrets going around so it doesn’t mess up their little “perfect” process. I wouldn’t be willing to share my dreams because my dreams are very random, so I never know what my dream will be about. Also, it is said that 95% of the dream is forgotten when you wake up, which is why I can’t describe my dream In the morning.
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Livia
1/27/2014 02:56:15 pm
My reaction to sharing your own dreams each night to your family is pretty cool. I always dream of the craziest things like being stuck in a land full of zombies or I will sometimes dream about my past. I love to tell my family about my dreams it gives me a sense that I don’t have to keep things to myself all the time. It is always fun to tell people dreams and hopes so you won’t have to keep it inside of you. I also think it’s important to because sometimes kids have bad dreams and sometimes it usually comes from feelings or real life situations. Maybe in some situations you are getting bullied, your dreams are your fears becoming stronger; therefore these frightened feelings are being brought on to your dream. The things that you should really talk to your parents or guardians about because the fears only going to get worse from there. Dreams are unique and are so precious because sometimes they can be about your hopes and dreams, which are so valuably to a person. So, I would completely all right with sharing my dreams with my parents because for me my dreams end up being entertaining in some way and I think they would love to know what is going in my life.
I believe different dreams show a sign of different emotions and sometimes these dreams can be in “The Giver’s” case is about your most desirable pleasures. We all had at least on of those “Stirrings” because we just can’t help but being attracted to a person. Don’t lie…we all had at least one dream about them. This is a sign of affection towards one another, which is totally not a bad thing but it is a sign of danger in “The Giver”. They don’t want a risk of having anyone break the one girl and one boy child policy. Which is a very unreasonable policy because mothers cannot pick whether or not they are going to have one girl or one boy. It’s like taking something out of a magician’s hat, you never know what you’re going to get. The government shouldn’t be giving pills to wipe away all the feelings because it will only leave you with emptiness. So I think that the community insists on this because it is important to keep the “birth policy” and these dreams tell whether or not you have the “Stirrings” so then they can give you medication from “the pills”.
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Ria
1/27/2014 03:31:03 pm
I think sharing your dreams to your family EVERY night is kind of weird. Because if you have dreams that have personal and embarrassing stuff in it, it would be really awkward to share to your family. Also if you have older brothers or sisters and they listen to your dreams and one of the dreams was really personal or embarrassing then your older sibling(s) can tell their friends or other people what kind of dreams you have. The reason why I think the community insists of doing this probably because they want to know if the children like Jonas are beginning Stirrings. So if they start having Stirrings then the children have to take the pills, so that they would never have dreams with crushes, flirting, etc. Jonas had to take the pills because he started having the Stirrings. Jonas dreamt of him in the bathing room at the House of the Old and he wanted to take off Fiona's clothes and get into the tub to bathe her with a sponge. I would never confess my dreams to my family because it would be really weird because some dreams are personal, some are embarrassing and some are not. Also if we HAD to confess our dreams to our family my older sisters might tell their friends about dreams. The good thing of confessing your dreams to your family is that, if you have a problem your going through whether it's about school or somewhere else and you need advice your parents are always there for you no matter what. The bad thing of confessing your dreams to your family is that your embarrassing or personal dreams you have can be recorded by someone such as an older sibling can play it for their friend and it will get really embarrassing for you. That is my opinion of sharing your dreams to your family.
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Gurkaran Pahal
1/27/2014 03:56:26 pm
I think it’s really weird how they have to share their dreams every morning. I can see how this can be considered a good thing since it helps you sort out your thoughts and feelings. If you have a scary dream your family can help you understand why you were scared or what you were scared of. Though at the same time I feel that my dreams are personal and I would feel awkward sharing them. The reason I think the community insists on sharing dreams with each other is to know what people are thinking subconsciously. They would know what they were thinking at all times and how they felt. Maybe they used it to help them determine careers as well. I would not share my dreams with my family since sometime I have really odd dreams that make no sense so it would be pretty pointless to share them. Why would they care that I had a dream of a flying snake and how are they supposed to me make sense of that? Plus I think that my family would tease me or make fun of me for the dream I had. I think this is a pretty pointless and awkward thing to do with my family.
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HARMAN
1/27/2014 04:02:29 pm
Well I thought this idea was kind of odd. My first reaction was that “WOW, you have to share your dream to your family each night”. I think it would be really weird to share your dreams each night with your whole family. Your siblings would listen to it too. I think that would be the oddest part. I even had a question about this. What if you don’t remember your whole dream, what would you do then? I think that the community would insist this because maybe they would like to know if maybe a person’s dreams might be troubling them or maybe they would like to know what emotions are in your dreams. For example: Jonas had very strong feeling in his dream. So maybe the community might want to know if you’re in that “stage” still or not. I would probably not be willing to share my dreams with my whole family because I might not want to say something to everybody that I really would not like to mention with my whole family. My sibling would be listening to my dream and I think that’s kind of weird. I would probably only tell my mom if there were to be a dream which scares me or something in it that scares me. I would do this so my mom could help me get over it and not be scared anymore.
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