People that have influenced me

I have met many people in my life. Some of them were more important to me, other - less. Somebody has said, that everybody leave their footprints, when they are going through our lives. If these footprints are deep - it survives for a long time, if it is truthful - it becomes ways. I strongly believe in this aphorism and i wish there were some persons in my life who's footprints will become ways.

At first I want to mention my friend Karolis. We have lived in a neighbourhood and became friends four and half years ago. This person strongly influenced me and changed my life in many aspects. I always admired his knowledge and listened to his stories with a lot of interest. He has influenced my lifestyle, sense of music, attitude of mind. He gave me an opportunity to experience new taste of life and I'm really grateful for that. I believe that our deep relationship will continue forever.

Second very important person in my life is my best friend Almante. We've met about five years ago. This wonderful person learned me to notice a beauty of life and notice little things around as, which can bring us a joy. She has also showed me a singularity of books and persuaded me that there are many wisdom in books. We experienced a lot together and this experience is connecting us event nowdays.
There are a few more persons who I should mention, but I have chosen these two. I don't know why. Maybe because I've met them earlier than others, or maybe because these two persons are really the most iportant to me. I'm really very happy that I had an opportunity to meet them and I believe, that they've left truthful feet in my life and it will become ways :)

Phobias

Are you afraid of spiders? Or confined spaces? Or maybe you experience a fear of blood - hemophobia? There are mentioned only a few from the huge list of phobias. My bet is that you have never heard about many of them.

Have you ever heard, that there are people, ho are afraid of rain? This fear is named ombrophobia. It is an national affliction that is common in Philippines. Those, who suffer from this phobia says, that they're afraid of rain because they think it causes coughs and cold and flu. And if we cover our books when it is raining with a purpose to protect it, the Philippines take put their books and use it to cover their heads.

Other strange phobia is a dendrophobia - a fear of trees. Victims of dendrophobia believes that trees can turn into flesh - craving monsters when they are not looking at them. They can also imagine come kind of intimidating creatures looking into the tree and feel scared because of that.

One more abnormal phobia is a fear of sun - heliophobia. It is a problem that afflicts hundreds of Americans. Many people have been staying away from the sun because of growing fears about skin cancer. Heliophobia cause a vitamin D deficiency problem, that can be corrected by taking this medicament supplements.

I've mentioned only four types of phobias. But there are many phobias that exists around as, such like a fear of gravity, fear of books, bear of crowded places, fear of people and society and so on. Each of them is named suitably. You can feel happy if you don't have any abnormal fears and can live a normal person's life.

References:
http://psychology.about.com/od/phobias/a/phobialist.htm
http://pinoykasi.homestead.com/files/2002articles/07182002_Ombrophobia.htm
www.overcome-fears-and-phobias.com/dendrophobia.htm - 28k -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliophobia

The meaning of dreams

All people dream at night more or less. Our dreams combine verbal, visual and emotional stimulation into a sometimes ridiculous, illogical but often exciting storyline. Have you ever thought what your dreams should mean? Should we look at them literally or figuratively? Or maybe there aren't such a thing as the meaning of dreams? Do you think dreams might be prophetic?

Many people believe, that there are some meaning of the symbols we see in our dreams. For instance, it is said, that flying birds are a sign of prosperity to the dreamer, symbolize feelings of freedom, liberation from weight of responsibilities. A cat in our dream represent a feminine aspect.Cats attacking you represent the enemies. If you succeed banishing them you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame. There are a lot of dream dictionaries where all the meanings are divided by categories or alphabet. You can find such a dictionary almost in every bookshop or even online and search for the meaning of some symbol.

The science analyzes dreams from more complicated perspective. Psychological theories are based on the idea that dreams allows us to sort through problems, events of the day or things that are requiring a lot of our attention. For example, Sigmund Freud viewed dreams as guide to the unconscious. He believed that dreams allow the unconscious mind to act out unacceptable thoughts and desires, that we aren't able to express in a social setting at the real life.

There are few other theories of dreams and no one knows which is the most impartial. It's an individual choice what he or she wants to believe. Some researchers say, that we solve our problems or think through issues by dreaming, others believe to some symbols meaning, but, as Sigmund Freud once comment, we should't forget that, "Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar." :)




References:
http://petrix.com/dreams/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/dream.htm

Pictures from my own album.