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Lissy Longbottom · 09-08-2010, 04:26 PM

Professor Reynolds was sitting on the edge of his desk, waiting for the students to file in once he opened his class. Today however he looked a bit more exhausted than usual...his glasses had slid down the bridge of his nose and he'd made no effort to fix them, and he hadn't bothered to button up his navy sweater vest today either. Still, as the first students began to arrive, he made an effort to smile for them as they entered the room.

"Hello class...please take a seat, and we'll begin today's lesson shortly," he announced. "Keep chatter to a minimum, please!"

OOC: Class will begin in 1-2ish hours or so. Nolan IS in the room so please keep the chitter chatter down! Thank youuuu!

AlwaysSnapesGirl · 09-09-2010, 01:00 AM

This class...well, it definitely wasn't one of Vashti's best, and certainly one of the ones she hadn't read about ever. So almost everything that was being said was flying way over her head. The only thing she might've been able to answer was the Egyptian book thing, but she'd been so focused in trying to figure out how to spell the official term for this dream-intrepreting thing that she'd missed the chance to answer. Man, why did these things have to be so hard to spell? Oi vey. Finally she resorted to scribbling some random spelling down and took notes on the other questions being asked and answered. She'd check it in the textbook later.

HOPEendures · 09-09-2010, 01:07 AM

"Isn't a false awakening a really vivid dream where you think you're awake and everything feels real," Daisy said raising her hand.

PadfootAndTheWolf · 09-09-2010, 01:08 AM

Riley sat up straighter in his desk as the Professor had announced that himeslf and the others who had answered correctly were recieving points! His first ones at his new school! *gaspeth*

He sure liked the sound of that, and he knew from then on that he was sure to be gaining more! He listened as Nolan went on about how the Egyptians used them and scribbled the notes which he was sure the Professor was doing. He then said something about a false awakening. "Professor thats when you are dreaming and then you think you wake up but you really haven't, that would be problematic if you were trying to record your dreams. It would cloud your memory of what happened in the dream and what happened when you think you woke up, correct?" he was definately taking an interest in the strangeness this subject had to hold.

PattyH. · 09-09-2010, 01:18 AM

Patroclus was gutted he had missed out on answering the ancient Egypt question, it was after all what his father did for a living.

However he knew the answer to the next question so he could answer that one, "False Awakening is what one can experience when they are dreaming, within a dream. The wake up from the Dream- Dream, and experience what they think is reality in the the real Dream." Dreams within dreams, Patroclus could see this train of thought getting rather confusing.

The1HBIC · 09-09-2010, 01:33 AM

False awakening... Well that's a no-brainer Marie thought as she listened to everyone's answers. "It's when you have a dream that is so real that when you wake up you feel as if the events actually happened." Dreaming that you are dreaming or something like that.

Erindipity · 09-09-2010, 01:35 AM

Lexi listened closely to Professor Reynolds and took notes. She was not great at Divination so she didn't even attempt to answer anything. She just stared at Finn and grinned every once and a while. Yeah, that was best.

Zellanna · 09-09-2010, 01:41 AM

Lina listened quietly at ideas about false awakenings. If they were what she thought she was, she had that sort of thing often. "Like lucid dreaming..." she muttered softly. "Only it sounds like the other way around. If it's thinking you've woken, and you haven't... Something like that can happen over and over and over again because your body refuses to awaken and it can be worse than actually waking up so many times over the night. Though it's speculated that you can focus on an object that if you see it in your dreams then it tells you that you are still dreaming."

Hermione J. Granger · 09-09-2010, 01:42 AM

Hermione was writing down the meanings of False Awakening. It seemed simple enough she thought and since everyone seemed to be saying the same definition she thought it would be best to wait for the professor to explain it.

Sherri · 09-09-2010, 03:25 AM

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"Yes, points to all of you! Ancient Egyptians definitely used that book for dream interpretation, showing just how far back this certain form of Divination goes. Even people in the ancient world knew their dreams held some importance in their everyday lives." he explained. He turned around to scribble some more notes on the chalkboard for them. Hopefully they understood that the notes would be VERY important.

Nolan let out a hearty laugh. "I'm sure it was discovered in the pyramids, since I'm fairly certain that most artifacts were discovered there...even though I can't say that for sure, since I'm no historian," he said with a chuckle. "I'm sure the book was not found with a mummy though. They probably held onto their gold necklaces and such instead," he told him.

"One thing that people need to be careful of when interpreting dreams is a false awakening. Can anyone tell me what that is?" he asked them. It was very important they knew what it was before interpreting dreams of their own!

Witsy thought about this next question carefully in hopes that not only would the professor answer it but also be able to mention some “cure” you might say. False Awakening, hmm. She thought. Reluctantly raising her hand she answered, “I do believe that false awakenings are when you’re led to believe you have woken up, but in fact you’re still dreaming. Almost like a dream within a dream?" Witsy, not even close to reaching the floor with her feet, swayed her legs therapeutically waiting for the correct answer.

Lissy Longbottom · 09-09-2010, 03:30 AM

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She raised her hand and said "Is it like seeing dead relatives in your dreams?" she wanted to get some points for Ravenclaw and notes for her O.W.L. exams.

Nolan frowned. "No, but good guess, points for effort!" he said with a smile to the young Ravenclaw.

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Having been in class the WHOLE time, Destiny was only listening to the discussion about dreams. She felt she didn't have to add to the discussion, at least not until the last question was asked. A false awakening, yeah, she had some of them, so she knew what it was.

She raised her hand, "It's when you think someone is waking you up, but they really aren't. Like, once, I thought my Grandmum was trying to wake me up, but she was only yelling at the sheep to get out of the trash."

Funny thing was, her Grandmum was the one in the trash..

Meh.

"Close," he said with a nodd. "It's not necessarily someone waking you up unintentionally," he explained. "That would just be a case of your sleepy brain misinterpreting something," he said with a grin.

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Kurumi was busy writing notes as fast as she possibly could. While she did not know anything about Divination in terms of its relation to magic, she felt a sense of relief that what the professor was talking about was at least distantly related to some of the Shinto rituals and customs she had come to know growing up in Japan.

Oh! She thought she knew this one. She quickly wrote a few notes relating to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses. She wondered if this book was connected to the Bible stories in which Joseph interpreted dreams for the Pharaoh. Did witches and wizards know about this type of stuff. It seemed reliant so she thought she would ask. She raised her hand - she certainly was feeling more confident...but probably should make her answer more with sounding. "Professor, does this dream book have any connection to the muggle Bible stories where a man name Joseph interprets dreams for the Pharaoh and others?"

Kurumi wasn't 100% sure what a false awakening was, but just thinking about the meaning of the words themselves, she was pretty sure that she had experienced. She decided to raise her hand and give it a try. "Professor, I think that a false awaking is a dream within a dream and that dream within a dream is one in which you dream that you are awake. I can remember a time when I swore that I had woken up, and I went about my usual morning routine of taking a shower, brushing my hair and teeth, eating breakfast, but then suddenly waking up again to find myself still in bed." She hoped that that was a satisfactory answer.

"Hmmm. It could possibly have some connection. While I myself am no historian, I do know that certain stories appear in many different cultures. For example, the Cinderella story can be traced back to numerous places across Europe and even into Asia. So it is possible that the story you're referring too could have some basis in the actual book, but you'd have to ask your History of Magic professor more about that," he told her with a smile.

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Adam woke up suddenly, he must have been dozing off sense none of this really was connecting to him. Should he ask a question now or later once class was over and everyone filed out.He raised his hand, ready to ask how a false awakening happens...He sure hoped that hadn't been discussed as he dozed off, or else points might be taken away.

As Nolan listened to the students provide answers to the question, he noticed a slumbering Gryffindor in the corner. Oh heck no. First sleepy student of the term!

As they rattled off answers, Nolan kept his ears open, but GLARED at the student. As in a 'Don't sleep in my class' glare.

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Hearing the rest of the class answer after him, Simon had some idea that his answer was the right one. Still Simon couldn't help smiling a little as Professor Reynolds confirmed that his answer was indeed correct and that he was rewarded in turn. Guess I have some clue whats going on, he mused to himself as he continued to listen.

"Would that be believing you have woken up and gone about events only to really wake up after ?" he half-questioned as he answered.

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Great Brittany finally thought she knew something. She smiled Brightly and raised her hand "Professor i think it is A false awakening is a vivid dream about awakening from sleep." She said hoping it was right. "sorta like a double dream i guess."

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False... awakening? Umm.. Cameron hazarded a guess. "Sirrr." She put up her hand and spoke. "Would that be.. like, when people are having a dream and then they wake up from within that dream and believe they're awake? And they dream.. like.. normal everyday events happening? Is that right?" It didn't really sound right. The Prefect made a face. Hmm..

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Trixie raised her hand once more. This dream business was VERY interesting, well it was to her at least. "Professor. Is that when you have a very vivid and life like dream that you are waking up from your slumber?" she started. "It's quite common to also dream yourself doing your usual tasks, so it really feels like you HAVE actually woken up when in fact your are still dreaming" she continued. "It could be rather confusing or even distressing to whomever it is happening to. It's pretty much a dream within a dream" she explained further.

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Cora thought about it for a minute and seemed that the answer was fairly obvious. She raised her hand and said, "Professor, isn't that when you are dreaming and you thing you have awaken. You usually dream that you are in the same room that you fell asleep in and you go about you normal morning business just to actually wake up and figure out that you were still dreaming?

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Sophia raised her hand again. "A false awakening, sir, is a vivid dream about awakening from sleep." she said. "After they wake up in their dreams, they are likely to start dreaming about morning rituals." she said, again. "Such as cooking, cleaning, and other things of the sort." she said. Wow. That was a long answer. she thought.

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Joshua nodded his head seriously, acting like his Mummy had told him and trying to look like a grown up. So it probably was discovered in the pyramids. Awesome. The pyramids were amaaazing. And giant! HUUUUGE. But pretty cool. Joshua wanted to go see them, but his Mum was scared he would run away and get lost in them.

He was probably right.

"You can't blame them for holding on to the gold! Books don't put food in their stomachs." He wisely said, patting his stomach for added effect. Nevermind that they'd probably be dead when clinging to the gold anyway. Pfft.

Now ... a false awakening?

Joshua thought it over for a bit before waving his arm in the air again. He was small! He needed to get the Professor's attention! "That's when people are dreaming that they are asleep, right? And then they wake up in their dream! They think they're awake, but really, they're sleeping and DREAMING they're awake! .... right?" Totally!

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Now finally back in the swing of things, Evelyn slumped in her seat and waited for everyone to continue to finish answering before actually writing down what was being said. Hehe, yea, she was being extra lazy this class. One of these days, she was going to see if she could get a first year to write notes for her.

Like right now would have been nice too, but eh, she might as well raise her own hand. "False awakening..." was..something. "It's when someone dreams that they wake up, but, they aren't really awake because they're still dreaming. It's a uh...common thing that they might dream they did stuff in real life, like all their daily rituals such as cooking and cleaning since everything seems so real, but it didn't really happen since it was all in a dream. Like, a dream within a dream. So when they really do wake up...it's just, confusing."

Really, really confusing. Like her whole explanation. Maybe she'll get a firstie to answer for her one of these days too. Get a Ravenclaw firstie. They're supposed to be really smart, right?

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Jenny continued scribbling down some more notes as the Professor asked his next question. Hm...false awakening...she remembered her mother talking about one of those once. But what's the definition?! Instantly something came to her head again.

"Um..." Jenny paused again before continuing. "I think a false awakening is when you're dreaming that you're still awake. In fact, you feel so awake in your dream that you don't know that you're actually dreaming still, you feel that everything is real around you, and you can remember all the details in your dream vividly."

Not bad for a Divination class. Jenny was starting to get the hang of the subject now.

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Vilhelmiina raised her hand to answer. "A false awakening is a very realistic dream about waking up and performing you're daily tasks, like showering and cooking."

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Louisa was writing down fast what the Professor had written and what the answers were. Hmmm. This subject was interesting enough for her to not fall asleep or to stay absent minded. That's a first so far.

False awakening? She's read about this somewhere. She tried to gather some of her thoughts and raised her hand, "Sir, I think that when a person believes he's not in a dream anymore, but in reality." She bit her lower lip; Yuck! That was much more complicated in the book but it was something like that anyway.

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Hmmm, she raised her hand, attempting every question.
"Is a false awakening, when people dream that they have already woken up from sleep?" She said it exactly how it sounded to her. Awaking.. falsely. Mhm. "So, people would dream about doing their usual daily routine, even though it is still actually a dream." She added with a thoughtful expression.

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Leilani raised her hand. "False awakening is when you think you've waken up, even though you haven't. It commonly happens during lucid dreaming." Yup, it hadn't happened to her yet, but it might someday. It sounded like fun.

She fidgeted in her seat, just a teeny bit. She was nervous. Duh. Classes had only just started. And even though she'd taken them before, she was nervous. Don't ask me why.

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That seems simple enough, Em thought. She raised her and and said, "Isn't it when you Have a dream where you wake up, but you are actually still sleeping?"

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Arabella-Marie thought about the question and raised her hand and said "Sir is it like someone wakens up and they think that they are still dreaming cause they see things in there dreams in everyday life" Arabella-Marie didn't know if that was right but it was worth a go anyway seeing as she was willing to get more points for Gryffindor

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Ever-Lily stopped taking notes, and raised her hand confidently.

"Isn't that where...uh...where you've woken up inside your dream, but the dream continues, sir?"

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Delilah raised her hand. "Waking up in the dream and believeing it is reality?" She asked. She kinda questioned it herself but she was pretty sure it was right.[/QUOTE

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Adeline shoot her hand up and said suck-uppy [B]"Its when you have a dream that you have a dream then wake up" she said with a smile. SHe loved divination.

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Amy raised her hand "isn't that where you have a vivid dream of waking up and only to wake and realize it was a dream?" she knew that she most likely got this one right

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False awakening... she knew what that is, well, at least she was pretty sure she knew what it was. Selena raised her hand. "A false awakening is when you are dreaming, but in the dream you think you wake up and in the dream you also do things that seem to be normal," she said. Ehhh. It didn't really make sense, perhaps other people said it better? Bleh. At least she had an idea of what it was... hehehe.

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A false awakening is something you believed in was right, but in the long riun, you should have seen the real truth.

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It was like... what was it called? Dayja voo? This had just happened to Keefer this morning.

Both hands in the air yet again, Keefer said "Sir, that happened to me this morning! I was dreaming something, and then I woke up and went to breakfast in the Great Hall. Except I woke up five minutes later! So the first time, I hadn't actually woken up, I just dreamt that I did. But it felt so real!!!!"

He still had trouble believing that he hadn't actually eaten blueberry ice cream for breakfast before classes.

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Alice raised her hand, somewhat hesitantly. "Professor would that be when a person becomes aware that they are dreaming in the middle of a dream?"

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Pam raised her hand. "Isn't that when you think your awake inside a dream, yet you're not really awake?"

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"Isn't a false awakening a really vivid dream where you think you're awake and everything feels real," Daisy said raising her hand.

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Riley sat up straighter in his desk as the Professor had announced that himeslf and the others who had answered correctly were recieving points! His first ones at his new school! *gaspeth*

He sure liked the sound of that, and he knew from then on that he was sure to be gaining more! He listened as Nolan went on about how the Egyptians used them and scribbled the notes which he was sure the Professor was doing. He then said something about a false awakening. "Professor thats when you are dreaming and then you think you wake up but you really haven't, that would be problematic if you were trying to record your dreams. It would cloud your memory of what happened in the dream and what happened when you think you woke up, correct?" he was definately taking an interest in the strangeness this subject had to hold.

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Patroclus was gutted he had missed out on answering the ancient Egypt question, it was after all what his father did for a living.

However he knew the answer to the next question so he could answer that one, "False Awakening is what one can experience when they are dreaming, within a dream. The wake up from the Dream- Dream, and experience what they think is reality in the the real Dream." Dreams within dreams, Patroclus could see this train of thought getting rather confusing.

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False awakening... Well that's a no-brainer Marie thought as she listened to everyone's answers. "It's when you have a dream that is so real that when you wake up you feel as if the events actually happened." Dreaming that you are dreaming or something like that.

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Lina listened quietly at ideas about false awakenings. If they were what she thought she was, she had that sort of thing often. "Like lucid dreaming..." she muttered softly. "Only it sounds like the other way around. If it's thinking you've woken, and you haven't... Something like that can happen over and over and over again because your body refuses to awaken and it can be worse than actually waking up so many times over the night. Though it's speculated that you can focus on an object that if you see it in your dreams then it tells you that you are still dreaming."

"Yes, all good answers!" he said with a grin. They were all super smart. "A false awakening is where you wake up in the dream, but you don't actually physically wake up. So you dream yourself wandering around and doing certain things, only to wake up and find you were still dreaming. It can be confusing to say the least. For example, during my days as a student here, I once dreamt that I had done all my Charms homework 2 weeks in advance. When the date came for the homework to be turned in, I argued for half an hour with my professor, insisting that I'd turned it in earlier, only to find that I was wrong and it had all been a dream. So, when recording your dreams, be sure you're certain that you're recording the correct version of the dream!"

"Now, we're going to do a practice interpretation before I introduce your project. Record a dream that you've had recently...any dream will do. The weirder it is, the better it will work for this exercise!" he said. "Please don't just make up a dream, I'd like this to be something you actually take seriously," he added, just in case it wasn't obvious that he was serious about this warm up exercise. "You have 15 minutes," he said before clapping his hands, signalling that they were free to begin.

OOC: ANDDD I'm off for the night. You have like, 16ish hours to come up with a dream, so have at it! :]

HogwartsHokage · 09-09-2010, 03:53 AM

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"Now, we're going to do a practice interpretation before I introduce your project. Record a dream that you've had recently...any dream will do. The weirder it is, the better it will work for this exercise!" he said. "Please don't just make up a dream, I'd like this to be something you actually take seriously," he added, just in case it wasn't obvious that he was serious about this warm up exercise. "You have 15 minutes," he said before clapping his hands, signalling that they were free to begin.

Jenny looked down on her parchment. Gosh...she never keeps track of her dreams very often. The next morning they would all disappear. She tried to remember one dream that she could remember very well when she was a little kid. She began writing down on her parchment.

"One day, my father came up with a new sushi recipe to make for his shop." Jenny stopped and nodded to herself. She dipped her quill in her ink before continuing. "He asked me to try it, and so I did; however, it didn't taste right for some reason. It tasted like rotten milk and sour apples. I asked my dad what he put in the filling. My father hesitated before turning to me and said, 'I couldn't find any good fish for today. Would you mind getting some for me?' He looked especially worried; I disregarded that since I knew he had no choice but to ask me since my mother and brother weren't home. 'Will do, father!' I told him before I rushed out of the house with my fishing pole and basket. It was raining very heavily for some reason. Since the shore wasn't that far, it only took me 5 minutes to reach the now dangerous waves. I threw the line as far as I could, catching a few fish when I heard a low growl. After looking around, I noticed that there was a big monster right in front of me in the water. It had tentacles -- it could have been a giant octopus or something. With angry eyes, it tried to reach for me and I had to run as fast as I could. I barely got off the dock when a tentacle grabbed my ankle. It kept dragging me towards the water and opened its wide mouth..."

Jenny finally put her quill down. She had abruptly woke up at that part of the dream so she never got to find out what happened. That seems to be good enough right?

**Danika Malik** · 09-09-2010, 05:22 AM

Right. Well. Danika wasn't going to share her thoughts about dreams in class. Even if there were certain dreams that could be worth sharing.

But no.

Her dreams. No, thank you. She'd rather sit and listen how the whole class goes.

brelovesweasleys · 09-09-2010, 05:30 AM

Ugh, just what she didn't want to do, they were doing... Rae figured that the Professor wouldn't really read every single one and if he did he wouldn't care, so she obliged to the activity at hand. She got out a quill, and a piece of parchment, then began writing

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Unlike any normal teenager or person for that matter, my dreams are not wild, they aren't crazy, they aren't weird. ~~At least not to me.~~ The most recent dream that I can remember happens to be a dream I have almost every night, sometimes there's little changes, but all in all, it seems to be the same dream. Which truthfully keeps me up at night, the dream prevents me from sleep because I don't want to be reminded.

In my most recent dream I was in the house my father gave me, it wasn't broken, it wasn't dirty, it wasn't old. My father, Raziel, was still alive, and he was with me. I was little, about 7 or so. I'm always smiling or laughing and so is he, were just spending time together. Neither of us know what little time we have left. He read me stories and chased me in the valley in front of the house. He would watch me play while he continued to write his novels. Maybe these dreams are memories, but they are what keep me awake but what I still yearn for when I sleep.

This looked too personal, but Rae had nothing else to write. Professor better be grateful she likes this class, because this was a secret she was spilling, all for the sake of class.. Which didn't sound like Rae at all.

Lexers · 09-09-2010, 05:34 AM

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Nolan frowned. "No, but good guess, points for effort!" he said with a smile to the young Ravenclaw.

"Close," he said with a nodd. "It's not necessarily someone waking you up unintentionally," he explained. "That would just be a case of your sleepy brain misinterpreting something," he said with a grin.

"Hmmm. It could possibly have some connection. While I myself am no historian, I do know that certain stories appear in many different cultures. For example, the Cinderella story can be traced back to numerous places across Europe and even into Asia. So it is possible that the story you're referring too could have some basis in the actual book, but you'd have to ask your History of Magic professor more about that," he told her with a smile.

As Nolan listened to the students provide answers to the question, he noticed a slumbering Gryffindor in the corner. Oh heck no. First sleepy student of the term!

As they rattled off answers, Nolan kept his ears open, but GLARED at the student. As in a 'Don't sleep in my class' glare.

"Yes, all good answers!" he said with a grin. They were all super smart. "A false awakening is where you wake up in the dream, but you don't actually physically wake up. So you dream yourself wandering around and doing certain things, only to wake up and find you were still dreaming. It can be confusing to say the least. For example, during my days as a student here, I once dreamt that I had done all my Charms homework 2 weeks in advance. When the date came for the homework to be turned in, I argued for half an hour with my professor, insisting that I'd turned it in earlier, only to find that I was wrong and it had all been a dream. So, when recording your dreams, be sure you're certain that you're recording the correct version of the dream!"

"Now, we're going to do a practice interpretation before I introduce your project. Record a dream that you've had recently...any dream will do. The weirder it is, the better it will work for this exercise!" he said. "Please don't just make up a dream, I'd like this to be something you actually take seriously," he added, just in case it wasn't obvious that he was serious about this warm up exercise. "You have 15 minutes," he said before clapping his hands, signalling that they were free to begin.

OOC: ANDDD I'm off for the night. You have like, 16ish hours to come up with a dream, so have at it! :]

Oh. She'd been right. Coolio then.

Hmm.. a dream. Well she had recurring dreams. But.. she was NOT sharing that. Ever. Or at least.. not to the rest of her classmates. Hmph.

Zellanna · 09-09-2010, 05:40 AM

Millie looked at her parchment warily. She really didn't want to write about her dreams. They were filled with memories she didn't have, strange beasts falling from the sky, and theorems that she hadn't known prior to dreaming them. None of her dreams were ever pleasant. The best they could be was mundane, and those were a blessing in and of themselves.

With a shaky hand, she put quill to parchment, and began writing the least of her dreams...

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Standing out on a cliffside, the entire world is dry. A lifeless city is a sea before me, reaching out to the sky, but I'm above all of them. The sky is dry as well, made of caked dirt that stretches out endlessly to the horizon. I wish I was underground, but I'm not. This is just how the world is. And everything is a dusty red.

The sky begins to crumble and break. Large chunks of the sky form into dark figures... black dragons which stretch and claw their ways out as though being born from the sky, and the sky bleeds in response. As the sky falls away into blood and dragons, there is nothing but an inky black and empty abyss, stretching out into forever.

She sighed and set her quill aside, still shaking. We would see what could be derived from it. Or maybe she would be told to choose a different dream.

ooc: Real dream. I was freaked for the entire day.

Ivy Nienna · 09-09-2010, 05:58 AM

Ivory who had been taking careful notes in her purple divination-designated journal all this time looked up to eye the Professor. She'd been just in the middle of remembering the last time she'd had a false awakening...unfortunatly it had caused her to think she'd gotten out of bed and gotten ready for class only to find out she was still asleep and veeery late as it was when she'd heard their class assignment.

A dream. The weirder the better?? But.

When it came to night time Ivory had many default dreams. Ones that were happy and full of light and other not so happy ones with forests, arenas, blood and a dark man controlling her every move. With a shudder, she mentally hid all those thoughts in a strong leather bound chest and visualized closing the clasps on it. No now was not a time to investigate her demons after all- it had been a while since she'd had a nightmare and he was talking about a recent dream right?

Taking her own interpretation of the assignment, Ivory nevertheless put her peacock quill to paper and jotted down the weirdest dream she'd had in the past few months. Weird only as in unexplainable.

Lockhartian · 09-09-2010, 06:47 AM

Think. Think. Think.

A recent dream. Well, he could only think of one. But was it considered a dream?

Either way, he wrote down quickly what his dream was about, but decided to share this thoughts with the Professor, yes, he didn't mind if the class heard it or not, "Professor" he started, the first thing was to get his attention, "What if the dream sort of looks like something you've already experienced?" he asked, his hand was still in the air...and now not so much.

"For instance, I keep on dreaming..." well, not really, only like three times the past month, "...that I'm flying on my broomstick and hit a tree..." yes, he continued, "...which in reality it happened, when I was three, and my father came over to help while my sister laughed beside me" that's what happened in reality, "In my dreams, however, I'm no longer the three year old boy, " no, he was now the thirteen year old boy, "My sister and my father keep their same age, but the one that comes to help is a golden-haired relative" yes, his great-great-great-uncle, the G dude, "It still counts as a dream, right? Even if it resembles a real life experience, correct?" it probably was, but then what did the dream mean?

Jason Potter Weasley · 09-09-2010, 06:58 AM

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Nolan frowned. "No, but good guess, points for effort!" he said with a smile to the young Ravenclaw.

"Close," he said with a nodd. "It's not necessarily someone waking you up unintentionally," he explained. "That would just be a case of your sleepy brain misinterpreting something," he said with a grin.

"Hmmm. It could possibly have some connection. While I myself am no historian, I do know that certain stories appear in many different cultures. For example, the Cinderella story can be traced back to numerous places across Europe and even into Asia. So it is possible that the story you're referring too could have some basis in the actual book, but you'd have to ask your History of Magic professor more about that," he told her with a smile.

As Nolan listened to the students provide answers to the question, he noticed a slumbering Gryffindor in the corner. Oh heck no. First sleepy student of the term!

As they rattled off answers, Nolan kept his ears open, but GLARED at the student. As in a 'Don't sleep in my class' glare.

"Yes, all good answers!" he said with a grin. They were all super smart. "A false awakening is where you wake up in the dream, but you don't actually physically wake up. So you dream yourself wandering around and doing certain things, only to wake up and find you were still dreaming. It can be confusing to say the least. For example, during my days as a student here, I once dreamt that I had done all my Charms homework 2 weeks in advance. When the date came for the homework to be turned in, I argued for half an hour with my professor, insisting that I'd turned it in earlier, only to find that I was wrong and it had all been a dream. So, when recording your dreams, be sure you're certain that you're recording the correct version of the dream!"

"Now, we're going to do a practice interpretation before I introduce your project. Record a dream that you've had recently...any dream will do. The weirder it is, the better it will work for this exercise!" he said. "Please don't just make up a dream, I'd like this to be something you actually take seriously," he added, just in case it wasn't obvious that he was serious about this warm up exercise. "You have 15 minutes," he said before clapping his hands, signalling that they were free to begin.

OOC: ANDDD I'm off for the night. You have like, 16ish hours to come up with a dream, so have at it! :]

" Well, I dreamed I was Elvis Presley" Rex told the proessor. " Now the funny part of this is I do not really know how to sing. " Rex said to Mr. Reynolds.
" I had hid jumpsuit, his kind of long hair, his good looks and apparently all these girls. "I seem to be doing a concert in Las Vegss, Nevada in the USA" Rex explained to Professor Reynolds. Then I woke up and seemed to be at A karoke Bar in San Francisco, CAlifornia, USA singing Elvis ,but then I really woke up from my dream" Rex sighed.

Emzily · 09-09-2010, 07:51 AM

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"Now, we're going to do a practice interpretation before I introduce your project. Record a dream that you've had recently...any dream will do. The weirder it is, the better it will work for this exercise!" he said. "Please don't just make up a dream, I'd like this to be something you actually take seriously," he added, just in case it wasn't obvious that he was serious about this warm up exercise. "You have 15 minutes," he said before clapping his hands, signalling that they were free to begin.

Ella smiled when she got the question right. She was on a roll with these answers today, heh. Oooh, they were gonna interpret their own dreams? Coool.

She almost stuck the end of her Quill in her mouth as she thought about it. But she managed to stop herself before that happened. It was hard trying to remember dreams. Even if they were really awesome, they just disappeared from memory by the morning. It was usually nightmares that stayed with you... right? Once she thought she had something, she pressed her Quill to her parchment and wrote it down, because she didn't particulary want to say it out loud in front of the class.
Dreams were so individualy weird.

mellamaet · 09-09-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Miss Lissy Lou

"Now, we're going to do a practice interpretation before I introduce your project. Record a dream that you've had recently...any dream will do. The weirder it is, the better it will work for this exercise!" he said. "Please don't just make up a dream, I'd like this to be something you actually take seriously," he added, just in case it wasn't obvious that he was serious about this warm up exercise. "You have 15 minutes," he said before clapping his hands, signalling that they were free to begin.

OOC: ANDDD I'm off for the night. You have like, 16ish hours to come up with a dream, so have at it! :]

Cass had kept quiet for the duration of the class, but now they had to do something. So she sat up straight, and brought out her rolls of parchment, one of her Hippogriff quills, and a pot of black ink from her bag.

One of her dreams? Hmm...this was hard. She rarely remembered her dreams...she thought for a while and then she sat up excitedly. She remembered what she dreamed of this morning!

She bent down low towards her parchment and started writing.

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I was standing at a plain. The horizon stretched out until forever and no trees or mountains stood at the side. "What was going on?" I heard my self say. I reached for my wand tucked inside my sleeve inside my silver, leather holster. I sighed in relief when I felt the wooden object was still there. Then I looked down on the ground and noticed a broom. I held out my hand to it and said in a firm voice "UP." The broom flew up to my hand and I grasped it tightly. Then I mounted it and kicked off the ground hard. I was flying! I looked down and saw a peculiar sight at the ground. Everyone I knew was huddled before a black, stone tomb. "Who died?" I asked myself. I tried to check it out, but I couldn't see. All I could see were a lot of blonde heads, probably my family and some of my friends, and a whole lot of green and black robes. I lowered the broom to the site and was horrified. The person on the tomb was me. My small, pale body was on an emerald green sheet. my long blonde hair was swept to the side. "I'm not dead! I'm over here!!" I called out to everyone. but they just ignored me, as if they couldn't hear me. Then I looked at the grave again and saw the my owm aquamarine eyes were open. Then the dead me smiled up at me and said "Join me Cass." I stared at her horrified "No! I'm not dead!!" The pale hand reached for me and I felt the darkness close over me. Then I woke up.

Cass stared at the words at the paper. This wasn't a dream. This was a nightmare...but its the only one that she remembers. So with a resigned sigh, she rolled up the remainder of her parchment and leaned back her chair as she watched her other classmates work.

sweetpinkpixie · 09-09-2010, 10:00 AM

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Adam woke up suddenly, he must have been dozing off sense none of this really was connecting to him. Should he ask a question now or later once class was over and everyone filed out.He raised his hand, ready to ask how a false awakening happens...He sure hoped that hadn't been discussed as he dozed off, or else points might be taken away.

Kurumi passed her notes to Adam to get him caught up on where they were. She made a mental note to herself that she would nudge him...or perhaps even kick him, if he started falling asleep again. She pointed to the board where the Professor had written their current task of recording a dream. She scratched her head with her quill trying to think of a dream that seemed suitable for what the Professor was looking for. Had she had any weird dreams recently?

She remembered a dream in which everything was pink...as though she were seeing the world through pink lensed glasses. She figured that that was probably the best dream to work with and she began writing on some parchment.

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I once dreamed that everything was a shade of pink. I was playing with my brothers by the stream, but the stream was made from flower petals instead of water....

She paused...what else had happened in that dream? She couldn't remembered, so she decided to start with a different one instead. There was one that had stuck pretty vividly in her mind...

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I once dreamed that I was practicing kendo with my oldest brother out in a great wide field. It was night, but the field was glowing a golden color. Suddenly, thousands of fireflies appeared lighting the sky with their greenish-yellowish glow. Suddenly, there was a very strong wind and I ran to my brother but, right as I was about to reach him, he turned into a statue made from cherry blossoms and blew away with the wind...

She put her quill down and looked up at the professor. Yeah...they were probably going to have a field day tell her what this one meant.

Ladybug · 09-09-2010, 10:11 AM

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Carin walked into the Divination classroom, excited about the first lesson of the year. She was determined to pay attention and win back some of the points she'd lost her house, too.

"Good morning, Professor," she smiled at her teacher and looked around for an empty desk. She was feeling cheerful and hopeful, sure that this day would be better than the previous night, and...

Or not. Carin's eyes narrowed as she recognized Enya's arrogant posture sitting by herself. Part of her wanted to approach her, sit next to her even if only to spite her housemate, but the part that still remembered her conversation with Professor Kingsley forced her to look away and take an empty seat at the opposite end of the classroom.

How could she have forgotten they'd have most of their classes together? They were in the same house, and year! It seemed like Carin's temper and self-control really would be put to the test this year.

Enya had noticed Carin walk into the room, and she gave the girl a particually nice smirk and wave when she noticed Carin had seen her. HA. She was going to enjoy annoying that girl this year. She giggled. After that Enya shut off, she had opened her textbook but never took a word in. She was thinking about ways of getting back at Carin. It was Carin's fault after all for her getting detention. GAH! She'd get her back!

But she came back to the present when she heard to Professor tell all about a dream she had recently had. Ha. This was going to be good. She'd make it up, yeah she would. Hmm but what? Then she got it!

Enya opened her mouth to say what had come to mind, but didn't. Seem's she didn't have the answer.

Zoom · 09-09-2010, 10:12 AM

Leilani thought back to one of the dreams she'd had recently. It had deffinitely been... Odd. She was running through a park, hiding from people on her way home. But when she got home, her father wasn't there. He'd left a note saying he needed to go to the hospital because there was glass in his eyes. So she ran off to find him, but she couldn't and instead wound up in this run down old shack.

That was all she remembered really. But yes, it had been strange.

She finished taking notes on what the Proffesor had to say before gently setting her note book down on the table. Hmm, they weren't sharing their dreams were they? Because if the were she'd certainly be getting some strange looks

Hollister · 09-09-2010, 10:24 AM

Jack was never particularly good at remembering dreams, so this was certainly a challege. Much more than an exam where you have actually revised stuff you had to write about. This was, trying to remember something that never happened, like a memory that has just dropped out of your mind the minute you opened your eyes. But still, Jack dipped the nib of his quill into some ink and began writing absolute nonsense.

"So, I've been chased in my dreams a lot before, by zombies. I think I saw them on a poster once in the muggle community I live near, they kind of look like inferius but with a bit more gore. Yeah, all my friends get ripped to pieces and get eaten, and I just keep running. Running really slowly mind you, I never seem to speed up, but they never see to catch me, so I guess that's alright. I never die, because before I do die, I wake up. So ... I don't see that as dying in my eyes."

vijaya · 09-09-2010, 10:38 AM

Lucy cleared her throat and began, "Professor, it had always been my dream to have a world tour with my friends and family i love to travel a lot. So this is what i went to bed thinking, to go on a world tour. In my dream i went to places all over the world enjoying myself with my family and friends, eating various dishes that were absolutely delicious and i couldn't stop myself from eating them. After eating we went to a park which had a slid and that looked really big. As i got ready to go, i see my sister pulling my hands and stopping me, i couldn't hear what exactly was she trying to say, but later some while i open my eyes seeing she calling me for breakfast. Well, that's my dream, i hope it don't stay a dream forever." she said with a sigh.

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