first draft intro

watching a favorite television show sure can be entertaining and for most people, a hobby for pure enjoyment. it does sound appealing, right. sitting motionless, eyes glued to the tempting glass screen, using your most important senses (or so we are lead to believe) of sight and hearing. the program continues and you are oblivious to your surroundings even ignoring the fact that you need to use the bathroom because the most anticipated scene of the show is about to come on.

laing argues that parts of us are scattered, that we are isolated from our own experiences. that people are taught from birth to ignore most of their own experience and that a normal person is one who does that successfully. especially our physical experiences. people are not familiar with feeling their own experience from being so warped into the ideal, which causes society to forget how to use even the simplest of senses, like going to---- r.d laing may be right, i am slightly made of up incomplete fragments rather than a whole in examining the modalities of my own experience because i mostly ignore the noumenon. i still try my best to finish talking to my friends on aim before doing something beneficial like taking a walk in central park. however, through the process of considering r.d laing's arguments i have gained real insight into my life.

The Stand

my class was assigned a standing experiment for six minutes. during this standing experiment i did not really notice anything significant except the fact that i was standing still, my feet planted on the ground and it irritated me quite a lot. in school and out, i'm either walking or sitting in a comfortable position or always doing something. i guess i have not taken notice when i stand still. one thing i noticed was that my balance was sort of uneven as well. i also noticed most of the people around me struggled to focus on standing still. my shoes felt glued to the floor yet i was still a little wobbly, as if standing still, breathing, and relaxing was an unnatural thing to do. i believe it was a challenging experiment which is sad to say since physically it's a very easy and doable task. even the simple things like standing still in one place can sometimes feel unfamiliar.

we live in a fast paced society and we have grown accustom to getting everything done and rushing through it; not really noticing how we feel since relaxing seens so foreign and new.

i defininitely notice how nice it is to relax but i am so caught up with wanting to do something that the stand experiment made me feel uncomfortable. like i wanted to sit down and write and do forty thousand things at once knowing it takes much more effort and energy, but i realized i prefered this over standing still for six minutes because i've grown accustom to doing it. i think in the future, for my own benefit i will pay more attention to when i'm not doing anything and enjoy my muscles being relaxed. i feel like if i do that i will have more insight with both realms of our society: the working and the relaxing since most of us are oblivious to the latter and don't absorb the feeling.

5th chunk topic sentences (in progress)

1. Dreaming is important because it allows one to view their passions or destructive impulses without acting upon it.

2. Keeping a dream journal has helped me see an overall pattern that may or may not be interpreted or significant to my daily actions.

3. Past experiences may play a role in dreams simply by re-occuring, it probably means that (bad or good) experience had affect that person greatly.

4. Paying attention to your dreams can enhance your life because not only are you looking into your conscious mind everyday but also when you're unconscious.

childhood argument.

Laing's theory on childhood is that it is disregarded since people do not pay attention to their own experiences. When at that stage, people do not cherish the moments until they are much older, if then even.

When I share a childhood memory, the emotions I feel are a mixture of feeling distant and closer to myself. Perhaps the distant part of the feeling just comes with it being a memory. I don't believe you are supposed to feel closer at heart with memories or else it wouldn't be called a memory! I also feel satisfied because that memory belongs to me and nobody else.

my friends and I had sleepovers/slumber parties in elementary school. i would take the stools from the kitchen and set them so it's in the form of a roundish square and then drape a huge blanket over them...blahblah to be continued.

When I was compiling pictures for my childhood project, a bunch of memories came into my mind. I'm glad we have something in our time to capture moments. Sharing and looking at friend's storis and pictures really made me regret not cherishing my childhood. i remember telling everyone how i couldn't wait to be a teenager.

i think school definitely has an effect on your childhood hence it shapes you into the person you are because you spend the majority of your childhood there. i imagine emotions are very important since they make up somebody's personality and i'd think you'd be in a rut if you don't express yourself. i don't think they are necessary to survive but if you want to be happy, you need to express yourself.

Freud Summary.

When Freud mentions the idea of "fragments" of a person, he means that people will never see the actual neumonon. Therefore, what he is saying is that one will never be a full complete person enriched with bare experiences. Parts of us are scattered, human beings are isolated from themselves. People are taught from birth to experience what society thinks is ideal. For example, I never pay attention to the little things. Or for lack of better words: my own physical experience. People are not used to such tangible details so we ignore our own senses.