Author’s Note: In this piece I will
explain how the main character, Janie dreams are different to other people’s
dreams and compare how they are different.
People always have dreams
whenever they go to sleep, either a good dream or a bad dream. And then there
are some people that don’t even remember their dream at all and say they didn't have a dream. But, unlike Janie from the book Dreams, by Lisa McMann, when it comes to her dreams she has
a different way of dreaming. People usually get tired and go to sleep and have
many dreams but, in Jane’s case, the way she dreams is very different than the
people do today.
Janie was a normal teenage girl going to school she had a boyfriend and she was loving her life. Until she found out that she was a dream catcher. That changed her life completely, she wouldn't be able to have her own dreams, whenever someone near her is sleeping she automatically passes out and gets sucked into their dream. Janie was able to see anybody’s dream if they were by her sleeping . But this affected her a lot because when she would get up from the dream she would get up and feel all loopy and her vision would get blurry, but while she is sleeping people would see her acting all crazy like her boyfriend said “ I thought you were dying, you shake, you spasm, your eyes roll back in your head” pg 94. She would act like she was possessed while she was sleeping. And she couldn't do anything about it.
Later throughout the book Janie finds out that what she has is a gift that many people don’t get. When she found this out she wasn't too thrilled about it because she would feel horrible while she was in a dream. But, she finds out that while she is in someone’s dreams she is able to control it, she is able to pause, rewind, and fast forward the dream. But she knew that to do that she really needed to focus on the dream and not think about anything else. We aren't able to do that, our dreams just come naturally we can’t control how our dreams are.
This book reminds me of how different Janie dreams are to the people dreams today. The way Janie gets dreams is very different from us we are able to just lay down, get tired and fall asleep. But Janie needs someone else by her that is already sleeping for her to fall asleep. Not only that but she acts all crazy and never can get real sleep like the other people. It’s so easy for us to go to sleep and we don’t freak out as much like she does. When we wake up we are just tired but when she wakes up “she is shaking only slightly, from adrenaline more than anything”. pg 164.
Even though Janie dreams are way more intense and different than the people dreams today. There are some similar side affects both of us have while we are dreaming. But, for Janie not having her own dream and seeing other people dreams would be a little creepy and that would just feel uncomfortable to see. Now she is stuck with this gift for the rest of her life and never be able to have her own dream beside everyone else’s.
Janie was a normal teenage girl going to school she had a boyfriend and she was loving her life. Until she found out that she was a dream catcher. That changed her life completely, she wouldn't be able to have her own dreams, whenever someone near her is sleeping she automatically passes out and gets sucked into their dream. Janie was able to see anybody’s dream if they were by her sleeping . But this affected her a lot because when she would get up from the dream she would get up and feel all loopy and her vision would get blurry, but while she is sleeping people would see her acting all crazy like her boyfriend said “ I thought you were dying, you shake, you spasm, your eyes roll back in your head” pg 94. She would act like she was possessed while she was sleeping. And she couldn't do anything about it.
Later throughout the book Janie finds out that what she has is a gift that many people don’t get. When she found this out she wasn't too thrilled about it because she would feel horrible while she was in a dream. But, she finds out that while she is in someone’s dreams she is able to control it, she is able to pause, rewind, and fast forward the dream. But she knew that to do that she really needed to focus on the dream and not think about anything else. We aren't able to do that, our dreams just come naturally we can’t control how our dreams are.
This book reminds me of how different Janie dreams are to the people dreams today. The way Janie gets dreams is very different from us we are able to just lay down, get tired and fall asleep. But Janie needs someone else by her that is already sleeping for her to fall asleep. Not only that but she acts all crazy and never can get real sleep like the other people. It’s so easy for us to go to sleep and we don’t freak out as much like she does. When we wake up we are just tired but when she wakes up “she is shaking only slightly, from adrenaline more than anything”. pg 164.
Even though Janie dreams are way more intense and different than the people dreams today. There are some similar side affects both of us have while we are dreaming. But, for Janie not having her own dream and seeing other people dreams would be a little creepy and that would just feel uncomfortable to see. Now she is stuck with this gift for the rest of her life and never be able to have her own dream beside everyone else’s.
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