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Old 09-28-2012, 04:14 PM   #152 (permalink)
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Calista was actually quite suprised that so many of them had knew at least bits and pieces about the process of REM sleep, it was a rather scientific idea. She was surprised, yes but that didn't mean she wasn't also glad they had at least some prior knowledge.

"Yes, the things you all said about the REM cycle and the sleep associated with it are correct." She flicked her wand at the board, listing some of the things they mentioned.

The blonde Professor turned back to the students to add to what they all said. "The REM cycle, is all of the things you all said but also more. We know very little about it technically but that is why it is so fascinating. We haven't found any actual scientific reason why humans sleep and how come we are more rested after experiencing this deep sleep during the REM cycle." She let that little bit of info sink in as she straightened a wrinkle in her skirt. "The subconscious is a very powerful thing and since human beings can't even harness the full potential of their brains it is no wonder that we are capable of REM and dreams."

"But back to actual dreams in Divination now that we know where they occur," because you couldn't study Egyptians and all of their culture, curses, pyramids and the like without at least touching on the country itself--same with dreams and the brain. "Like you all said before we are going to be using individual aspects from our dreams in order to interpret what exactly they may hold in store for us. So," she stood and walked over to a cabinet which upon opening it, revealed Dream Oracle books. She levitated a copy to each of them.

"Please open your books to the section that defines individual aspects of dreams and we can have a little bit of fun before starting the day's ativity." Yes, for Divination nerds like Callie Elwood, this would be VERY fun. "What I want each of you to do is to randomly find an object or action listed in this section and then raise your hand and tell the class what it is and what it's implications upon being found in a dream are."


Sierra cracked open her textbook and began browsing through the pages, looking for something random she could talk about. There were people answering left and right, which was slightly distracting, and of course the Slytherin prefect frowned. She sighed softly and tried to block out the noise around her.

...then finally--"There's quicksand," she said, not realizing her brother had said the exact same thing. "There's different ways it can appear in your dreams, though. If you get stuck in it, your future's going to be full of bad luck. If you get completely buried in it, that means your bad luck will overcome you, and you'll feel in over your head."

Then there was all that talk about faithful husbands and such, and she may have summarized it, too, but...

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Oooooooh! They were doing random stuff now. Like opening their textbooks and finding said random stuff and randomly reciting it to the class. Okay! Elise could do that. It seemed easy. Maybe she wasn't as bad a Divination as she thought?

So Elise opened her textbook and opened to the chapter indicated by Professor Elwood. Teapots. Oooooh!

"Teapots mean sudden news that will likely distress you,"
she grinned. Ooooh, there was a song about teapots, right? "I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my haaaaaandle and here is my spout."

What just came over her? Blushing, Elise sat back down. Nothing happened, nope. Nothing strange here. Look away, please. Thank you. Let's all just pretend Elise hadn't done that.


...this happened. *bliiiiiiink*

That. Was. Random. She eyed the Ravenclaw, wondering if the girl had gone mad or was just that weird. She eyed the professor out of the corner of her eye. Would Ellwood even think this was out of line? At all?

Something told Sierra the answer to that question was no.

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Especially considering there was now a house elf in class going on about a missing brooch. Ohh. She'd seen that brooch. It's been on the Headmistress when she'd seen it, though, so she guessed that was before it went missing.

She sighed. Who cared about a brooch? Now galleons... Notify Sierra when they were missing.
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