A Most Intimate Dream

by Herminne Tonita - It was late at night and I had just come back home after an evening out with my friends. Being very tired I went straight to bed, thinking that once again I had returned home alone, without that special someone to walk with me under the foamy sky, without my long-waited soul-mate, the person I could love and whom I could dream about every night. My eyes, looking out of...

One of My Most Intimate Dreams

by Cristina Nuta - It was some time before I realized that I had been turned into a cat. The first thing I noticed was that I was sitting on the floor instead of the chair. My clothes were in a heap by the chair as if I had just stepped out of them. On the small table the glass was still half-full of the black, bitter liquid I had drunk. I tried to stand up on two feet and succeeded only in...

Children - A Dream Came True or an Authentic Nightmare

by Herminne Tonita - Having children or not has become a burning issue for young couples, who spend many hours taking into account all the " good" and " bad" points of having children. On the one hand, all of us want to have someone for whom to work, beings that will become the goal of our lives, that will take care of us when we are old. Children become the parents' joy even from the...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

by Herminne Tonita - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare develops at three stages simultaneously according to an intricate, yet very symmetrical structure. These three sub-plots are linked by certain common elements: one character, Puck, the place, the woods of Athens, the time, Midsummer Eve and a certain type of experience, the dream. The three sub-plots have three different...

Success Is A Journey, Not A Destination

by Herminne Tonita - Success, success and more success. Don't we all want this? Surely we do, but till what point are we ready to go to reach the top? The most important is the way that leads us to the dreamt success not the destination, meaning the fulfillment of this road, reaching the goal that keeps us awake at night. All the challenges we have to face make us more powerful and the...

Sleeping Like a Baby

by Cristina Nuta - We do it. Animals do it. Even plants do it. Night after night we close our eyes and are ‘dead to the world’ for hours. Have you ever wondered why we sleep, and what happens to your body and your brain once you have shut your eyes? Thanks to research carried out in sleep laboratories it is now possible to find out. The sleep cycle has three different phases which are...

Clara woke up with a shock. It had all been a dream

by Cristina Nuta - I was watching TV when I suddenly heard a deep scream. I got a fright at hearing that and I immediately went into my sister's bedroom. She was terrified and I saw her crying. Clara woke up with a shock but what could have happened to her? 'Why are you crying? What has happened to you?' 'I have just had a horrible nightmare…it seemed that I was on a trip with my...

Keep Dreaming and You Will Manage It

by Herminne Tonita - So far away, so many hours of flying; it's like a dream that will never become reality. Bora Bora is one of the places which you always think at but where you will never get. But the necessity to rest, to run away from the stress, from the town pressure and from daily problems make you dare and take the chance. Bora Bora is the perfect place; further than this it's simply...