Why Do We Bearly Dreaming?

“Bearly” Dreaming As Martin Luther King once said “I have a dream…”, I have also had a dream, and I know you have also had a dream, in fact we all have had a dream, or many dreams, and will continue to have dreams as long as we sleep at night. Although MLK was preaching about racial equality, he still… had a dream. He had a vision, an idea, a thought that turned into something great, that was so abstract at that time that to some it was an illusion, as many political leaders opposed his views. However, many believed in his dream, and his dream made sense to more people as nights went by. This vivid idea and thought coming to life is what makes his dream similar to the dreams I will be discussing. Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and

An empiricist that is very well known for philosophizing about self-identity, and whom also influenced Freud, is David Hume. He is known for his arguments on human nature, the first one being that we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason, impacting how we see “ourselves”. In his book, Treatise on Human Nature, he stated that “Reason alone cannot be a motive to the will, but rather is a slave to the passions” . Or in other words, we are more motivated by our feelings and desires than by any of the comparatively feeble results of our intellect. When we think about our values, make decisions, move away from convictions, and overall go about our daily lives, reason does play a tiny part, but it is our feelings, or passions, that impact us the most. We find an idea nice or threatening, then we declare it true or false, and reason comes in later to support the original attitude. He believed in passions because not all feelings are acceptable, as people must learn to be more patient, more at ease with themselves, and less afraid of others. The way we learn this is through things such as sympathy, self-assurance, encouragement, art,

Dreams are our ideas, and our ideas, as he states “in sleep, in a fever, in madness, or in any very violent emotions of the soul, our ideas may approach to our impressions.” Our craziest ideas are linked to other thoughts in our mind, and as he believes in a posteriori reasoning, this suggests that our dreams are limited to things we have experienced. Since the root of all ideas are the impressions, this means that all ideas are exact replicas of the impressions. Impressions, our deepest desires and feelings, influence our