Imformative Speech Dreams
Informative Speech: Dreams
I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: “Dreams feel real while we 're in them. It 's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” (Inception, The Movie) Everyone dreams, but we all wonder “Why we have the dreams that we do?” or even “What do our dreams mean?” B. Relevance of topics to audience: Dreams are something you can’t just avoid, everyone has them if you want to or not. Even if you don’t remember them you still have them. Most of your life is spent sleeping so dreams will always happen. C. Credibility: For the past three weeks I have researched about dreams. On top of that I have woke up from nightmares that I had or even had dreams that I really try hard to remember the next morning. D. Thesis/Central Idea: Dreams are unique, throughout my speech I will go over Dreams.
E. Preview: Therefore, I would like to talk about the views of dreams and where they first started. Next, what types of dreams that you could possibly encounter when sleeping, and finally, learn exactly what your dreams mean.
Transition: Lets start off on the history of Dreams.
II. Body
A. First Main Point: History of Dreams. 1. According to www.library.thinkquest.org, Greeks didn’t look into dreams until the 8th century when Agamemnon received a message from the greek god Zeus in his dream. Greeks believed that dreams were messages from their gods, but in order to learn the full meaning of these dreams they needed to meet a priest. a. Greeks were not the only ones who believed that dreams were messages from god so did Ancient Egyptians, but they slept in temples in order to receive information from the gods to get ideas or aid. 2. Sigmund Freud was a popular philosopher, who studied the human mind and played a huge roll in the history of dreams. According to Sigmund Freud, Basic Books: New York dated in 2010, by The Interpretation of Dreams, he believed that dreams held important meanings and
I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: “Dreams feel real while we 're in them. It 's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” (Inception, The Movie) Everyone dreams, but we all wonder “Why we have the dreams that we do?” or even “What do our dreams mean?” B. Relevance of topics to audience: Dreams are something you can’t just avoid, everyone has them if you want to or not. Even if you don’t remember them you still have them. Most of your life is spent sleeping so dreams will always happen. C. Credibility: For the past three weeks I have researched about dreams. On top of that I have woke up from nightmares that I had or even had dreams that I really try hard to remember the next morning. D. Thesis/Central Idea: Dreams are unique, throughout my speech I will go over Dreams.
E. Preview: Therefore, I would like to talk about the views of dreams and where they first started. Next, what types of dreams that you could possibly encounter when sleeping, and finally, learn exactly what your dreams mean.
Transition: Lets start off on the history of Dreams.
II. Body
A. First Main Point: History of Dreams. 1. According to www.library.thinkquest.org, Greeks didn’t look into dreams until the 8th century when Agamemnon received a message from the greek god Zeus in his dream. Greeks believed that dreams were messages from their gods, but in order to learn the full meaning of these dreams they needed to meet a priest. a. Greeks were not the only ones who believed that dreams were messages from god so did Ancient Egyptians, but they slept in temples in order to receive information from the gods to get ideas or aid. 2. Sigmund Freud was a popular philosopher, who studied the human mind and played a huge roll in the history of dreams. According to Sigmund Freud, Basic Books: New York dated in 2010, by The Interpretation of Dreams, he believed that dreams held important meanings and
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