___________________ I started awake and unconsciously reached for my alarm clock to shut it off. I sat in the darkness, silent. Then everything came back to me. Everything extraordinary I’d felt was gone. It was such a typical summer morning, I might have laughed at the idea of it being anything but a dream. Yet…
__________________ Euneirophrenia (Noun): The peaceful state of mind after a pleasant dream. ___________________ I received another Wind last night. A Wind is what I call the ethereal thoughts that flow into my mind under certain circumstances. Normal thoughts have reason, purpose, or inspiration behind them. Yet my Winds always come on their own accord. I…
This is a short story written for an assignment in psychology class. The social exchange theory, in psychology, is a theory of mate attraction in which it is presumed that people are attracted to opposites, since they provide resources that the people lack themselves. This story was written to illustrate how the theory would play…