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IO chose this image because the character is riding a motorcycle before he gets in a wreck.

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I choose this picture because the main character spends a lot of time in the hospital after his accident

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I chose this picture because in the story there is evidence to support that both scenarios could have been the dream just like some people have reasons that explain how Santa is real and others have reason as to why Santa is fake.

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Represents the illusion that it's either moving or not like whether the man was dreaming or not.

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This image represents the Aztec dream

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The image represents the character's thoughts while he was reaming and could not depict the the dream to reality.

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This represent how he is in a dream and he is awake

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i chose this image because the story portrayed two different side of the story of what happened and what he imagined.

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He had a dream about getting into an accident.

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I choose this picture because i felt that it showed a metaphor of the man who is living a different reality through his night terrors due his accident

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This represents the liquid he drank after "running miles" through the forest

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A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming. Duringlucid dreaming, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over thedream characters, narrative, and environment.

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This image shows how the location of both of these mental story lines take place in a hospital bed. I believe that the Aztecs were all a dream to this man. This man had a terrible accident. At the time of this death-defying crash did these "dreams" of this Aztec world begin. These dreams represent the mans fight for his life, due to this horrible motorcycle crash. While in the hospital, he is getting closer to death, just as in his dreams. Finally, during the night, both story's align and he dies. The Aztecs killing him are just a representation of his death.

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It shows how he cannot tell real from fake. (sorry it´s big)

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I choose this image, because I believe that the protagonist has been telling us the past, running from the Aztecs, and has been telling us of the dream he is having, and that he does not want to wake from it, since he has been captured by the Aztecs, and as soon as he does he will die as a sacrifice.

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Brianna Whitaker: The juxtaposition of reality and a dream 

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Brianna Whitaker: The juxtaposition of reality and a dream 

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This image represents the start of the story when he crashes the motorcycle.

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This picture shows an intersection which was the scene of the accident.

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This picture represents a sort of deja vu scenario where I believe the main character could be hallucinating or having visions of past lives or even alternate dimensions based on the switched perspectives leading us to be confused between which account is reality.

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the sacrifices he dreamt of

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I chose this picture because after waking up again in the hospital, a violet lamp is watching over him.

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I choose this picture because I felt that it embodied what he was going through with him trying to be asleep in the real world but in his mind hes wide awake and alert

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In some jobs, working the night shift is unavoidable. There are hospitals to run, planes to fly and shops to keep open as we move towards a 24-hour society. With careful planning and a bit of peace during the daytime, it is possible to work all night and still get eight hours sleep the follow day. Some people will even tell you they don't mind and that they get used to working in this way. But can their bodies ever become fully accustomed to working to a clock turned upside down? And, more worryingly, is nocturnal labour bad for your health?

There are two elements to these questions. One is about how we feel - our mental wellbeing. People are right to say they get used to shift work. There's evidence that we cope with subsequent night shifts better than the first of a series, but some people find it much harder than others.

A Canadian study monitored the timing of the sleep, the light levels and the quantity of the sleep hormone melatonin produce by a small group of police officers as they embarked on a week of night shifts. Usually we release melatonin late in the evening when we start feeling tired and ready for bed. If you've adapted well to working nights, the peak will move to daytime instead. In this study, those whose pattern of melatonin production showed they had made that adjustment felt happier and more alert, as well as showing faster reaction times - but only 40% managed to make the switch.

In a larger study of more than 3,000 police officers working shifts in Canada and the US, the consequences for those who were unable to adjust were clear, with 40% diagnosed with some kind of sleep disorder.

Even if you do feel OK, there's also the question of whether your body could be suffering in the long-term. When it comes to assessing the physiological effects, one of the problems is differentiating between the impact that shift work might have on your lifestyle from the direct impact of working during the night. It is harder to eat healthily or to exercise regularly if you're working shifts. Not only is a salad harder to obtain during the night, but it's probably not what you feel like when you're trying to keep yourself awake. This tempts people towards snacks and takeaways. Pizza and curry may be convenient and make you feel better, but of course eating them every night isn't very healthy. There's also less opportunity for exercise. While you might manage to drag yourself to the gym at the end of a day's work, it's that much harder to do that at the end of your shift if you're already been up all night and are yearning for a nap.

Airline pilots were found to be happier on the days they were resting compared with those where they worked early or late shifts. Of course it's not unusual to prefer your day off to the days you have to get up and go to work, regardless of the time. But the researchers also found that when the pilots worked the early shift they had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol on waking and produced more cortisol throughout the day. In the long-term, high levels are thought to be associated with an increased the risk of heart problems and high blood pressure.

There could be other consequences too. One study found that a single overnight shift is enough to increase your blood pressure.

Add to this research from the University of Surrey published earlier this year: it demonstrated that after just three days of night shifts, the expression of genes was disrupted, meaning that they began to be active at the wrong time of day. Around 6% of our genes are set to work at specific times, but after just a few days keeping strange hours this pattern was easily disturbed. And a different study found that, after five weeks, people who stayed awake at night and slept during the day showed impaired glucose regulation and changes in metabolism which could increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity in the long-term.

Of course these studies were all short-term, raising the possibility that perhaps our bodies adjust in the long-term, but results of epidemiological studies conducted over many years are on the whole discouraging. There has been some debate about the impact of shift work on the risk of cardiovascular disease, with many studies finding it raises the risk and a few finding it doesn't. But the largest synthesis of the research to date, published in 2012, did show an increased risk of heart attacks in people working shifts. Even when lifestyle was controlled for, people doing shifts were still put at higher risk.

But when it comes to metabolic syndrome - an umbrella term including obesity, raised glucose levels, increased blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels - it was lifestyle that seemed to be key. If people worked night shifts, but succeeded in exercising regularly, eating healthily and not smoking, there was less evidence of an increased risk, despite their unsocial hours.

There's also evidence of increased risk of breast cancer in those who work night shifts, with a greater impact in those who are 'larks', who spring out of bed early in the morning, but find it hard to stay up late at night.

What these large scale epidemiological studies can't tell us is which individuals are most likely to be affected. Is it the case that as with the short-term studies, some people adapt and that those people won't suffer long-term effects? Or are there risks for everyone working shifts?

Research is complicated by the many forms of shift work people undertake. Working late every so often is likely to have different effects on the body from having the clock turned upside down by working several overnight shifts a week.

Still, until we know more about exactly who is at risk, those who work at night would be wise to take every opportunity they can to eat healthily, to exercise and to look out for early signs of these diseases.
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In some jobs, working the night shift is unavoidable. There are hospitals to run, planes to fly and shops to keep open as we move towards a 24-hour society. With careful planning and a bit of peace during the daytime, it is possible to work all night and still get eight hours sleep the follow day.

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This shows an Aztec sacrifice.

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He was a wake but yet he was asleep. This is representing one eye open and one eye closed. He was dreaming but facing reality at the same time.

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His first dream takes place in a dark forest

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This is the event that causes the nightmares to begin

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This Photo shows the subconscious world within dreaming like the Aztec man describes in the story.

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During his dream he smelled soup

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This picture shows how the man was dreaming of how he was a part of the Aztecs.

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The photo of the two heads looking in different directions but intersecting each other show the two different perspectives and how they intertwined to make magical realism.

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the aztec man dreamt that he was in an accident on a motorcycle

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The Aztecs play a major role in the story.  In the dream, they portray as menacing hunters with the motivation to torture and slaughter, giving the protagonist a critical challenge to face.

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A literal image of how scary the sacrifices were that the main character was horrified by.

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The incident that started it all.

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This image represents how important perspective is in this story because there could be two completely different plots, depending on how the reader interprets the story and whether or not they feel the protagonist is credible.

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"The Night Face Up" picture.

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Represents how the injured man was being helped during his accident in his ¨dream

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Shows a person lying down but images of her dreams that she has experienced like the aztec with his dream.

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This image shows how the Aztecs were all a dream and he was really in the hospital.

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Related to how it was like a dream. Sorry for how big it is

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Worm Hole
A wormhole is a short passage in space time that directly connects two universes or two distant regions within the same universe. The man in the story is connecting his motorcycle accident with his life with the Aztecs.

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"The Night Face Up" picture

this represents the aztec sacrifice mentioned in the story.

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"The Night Face Up" picture.

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He was suspended in a hospital stretcher for most of the story.