Lost

I just watched this episode of lost in season 2. Claire is trying to remember what happened to her during this two week period on the island when she was taken by this man pretending to be one of them. He took her and this other character, Charlie, into the woods and left him to die. Claire showed up about two weeks after the kidnapping, but she could not remember anything. She believes that she has amnesia, however, the shrink on the island explained something we learned about this year. She said "I don't think you have amnesia. Sometimes when something terrible happens to us there's a little switch in the head that flicks on to protect us from having to deal with it. Maybe your memories aren't gone, maybe you're just blocking them." This is legit a prime example of repression. Claire's mind is sub-consciously blocking this period from herself so that she doesn't have to deal with the pain. She doesn't even know that she is doing this to herself, as she is trying to remember it vs. burying it away on purpose. I just thought it was interesting how something we learned about in class showed up in a tv show I was watching outside of school.

Dream

I had a dream the other night. The main idea that I can remember was that I was going to work, at least I think. I assume because it happens multiple times suggesting that it's something that I do everyday. When I walk into the building, it's all white. It's just an empty white building; like when you buy a new house. I'm wondering what this symbolizes because that's not really a normal dream that too many people have, at least I don't think. My idea is that it symbolizes my future in the sense that it can be anything I want it to be. I'm at the point in my life where most decisions will guide me in what I will be doing in the future. Also, just as a preface to all of this, I already know what I'm going to be doing after high school which is why I think this is more odd. Maybe it suggests that something happens or changes in the time between now and graduation? Or maybe, to keep it more broad, that I can't ever expect to know what will be happening in my own life or in general. Also, the fact that it is all white must be important too. I think it means that I haven't made any major mistakes in my life yet because if I did then maybe there would be like black splotches on the walls or something. The all white to me shows that I'm like a painter with a black board in that I can create whatever I want to.

Multiple Personalities

I think that some of Freud's ideas are kind of crazy but one of the defense mechanisms was really crazy. The one about multiple personalities was insane. I saw this episode of Law and Order SVU the other day where a woman had this condition. One of her other personalities had killed and raped someone else. The real person had no idea of any of this even happening. This woman turned out to have like 7 different personalities and didn't even know about the others. The detectives had her look in a mirror when she was using another personality. I can't remember the name so I'll say Betsy is the other identity and Nicole is the real person. When they had Betsy look in the mirror they asked her who was in the mirror. Of course, the identity said Betsy. But then they pulled out the license for the real person, Nicole. They said don't you realize that you two look exactly alike? and Betsy just said that it was a coincidence and that "I suppose we look alike." This idea is crazy that the other identities don't even know about each other and can't put any pieces together. To burst all of your bubbles however, it turned out that this woman was actually faking the entire thing. None of her identities were real and she was putting on an act the whole time to try and get a way with murder. This makes you think that anyone with this condition could really be faking it so well that you can't even notice it.