Dream Of Cracked Egg

[Shu Manwill]

Overthree million students graduate from U.S. high schools every year. Most get the opportunity to test their dreams and live their American story. However, a group of approximately 65,000 youth do not get this opportunity; they are smeared with an inherited title, an illegal immigrant. These youth have lived in the United States for most of their lives and want nothing more than to be recognized for what they are, Americans.

The Portal is home to the largest community of undocumented youth in the United States. Our community has matured together for the past half-decade. Today we focus on progressing the national DREAM Act movement and increasing the pressure on our U.S. Congress to bring the DREAM Act to a vote. Only this vote will break our tired shackles and put us equal to our peers. You can help.

After early loss in April 2021, having my son had been the best thing to ever happen to me. However, I knew my anxiety about his well-being would not subside once he was here. I wanted the Owlet Dream Duo because I thought it would help me when he was sleeping. I knew that the dream sock displayed his heart rate and average o2 sats. And it had more than largely served its purpose. All of the other features - sleep quality indicators and sleep tracking- have made it that much more worth it.

In 2019, I launched ONEIRIC.SPACE, an experimental research platform, with the help of fellow writer Effie Efthymiadi and Studio Push. By interviewing experts and creatives from multiple disciplines, our aim is to shed light on how people relate and engage with dreams in contemporary contexts. Through the online magazine, monthly newsletter and events, we hope to spark more dialogue and collective learning around dreams and dreaming.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, two critical figures in the origins of psychology, were fascinated by dreams as a window into the unconscious mind. For a long time, many people thought sleep was a period when the brain was resting and mostly inactive. However, in the 1950s, scientists discovered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the phase of sleep primarily associated with vivid dreaming. Even though researchers are still unclear about why we dream, there are increasingly more hypotheses about the potential functions of dreaming.

When it comes to the dream world, nothing seems to be off-bounds. Uncomfortable emotions that we avoid in our waking experience can seep into our nightly visions. A garish poster that makes you flinch on your walk to work can make an appearance in your dreamscape. Researchers believe that dreams are shaped by fleeting feelings, thoughts, desires and fantasies throughout the day and that dreaming is a way to help us sort through relevant and non-essential information while asleep.

First and foremost, working with dreams involves remembering them by recording them upon waking. Without a written or audio account, the dream can quickly fade away or mutate into different versions over time because of how human memory works.

When waking up, try to remain as still as possible in your body. Let the dream memories come to the surface while half-asleep. An abrupt awakening can lead to blinding forgetfulness. Instead, try to reenact the dream events in your mind. Moving slowly and gently, jot down your recollections, draw your dream images, or whisper them into your voice recorder. This act of recording your dreams on a regular basis can help with improving dream recall.

Draw and/or paint: Dreaming is a predominantly visual experience and sometimes translating it into linear form like writing can feel incomplete. Instead, sketch out dream images in your journal immediately upon waking. If you feel like further interacting with this imagery, try painting it or 3D rendering them like Studio Brasch does.

After entering a description of your dream on your mobile phone, your one-of-a-kind Dream Image will be created. It will then be connected with those of the previous Museum visitors to create a collective Dream Tapestry. The result is a dynamic, ever-evolving dream of humanity, presented by Dal Museum visitors.

Dream Tapestry was developed by The Dal in collaboration with Goodby Silverstein & Partners, with creative concepting by Minds Over Matter and OpenAI, the creator of the text-to-image AI system, DALLE, named in part as a nod to the iconic artist, Salvador Dal.

The experience continues to claim prestigious awards for AI innovation, including two Webby Awards, two Cubes at the ADC Awards, a Best in Show ADDY Award and a Tampa Bay Tech Award. Available only at The Dal, Museum guests may view and share both their individual Dream Image and the collective Dream Tapestry.

The CA Dream Act Application allows students interested in attending eligible California colleges, universities and career education programs to apply for state financial aid. This application is unrelated to the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

California Nonresident Tuition Exemption commonly known as AB 540, exempts certain students from paying nonresident tuition (higher than resident tuition) and/or allows them to apply and receive state aid at certain California public and private colleges.

There are many financial aid opportunities for undocumented/dreamer students including: Cal Grant, Chafee Grant, Middle Class Scholarship, UC Grants, State University Grants, California College Promise Grant (CCPG), EOP/EOPS, some University scholarships and some private scholarships administered by campuses.

DACA is a federal process that defers removal action of an individual by USCIS for a specified number of years. It is important to note that DACA is not the same as financial aid and Undocumented/Dreamer students should still submit a CA Dream Act Application and Non-SSN GPA instead of a FAFSA.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, as part of the March on Washington. AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.

And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: for whites only.

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