In both texts that you read, the line between reality and imagination blurs—the narrator sees a woman in the wallpaper, while Dickinson’s speaker feels their own funeral happening in their mind. Have you ever had an experience where stress, fear, or emotions made something feel distorted or unreal? How did you ground yourself in reality again?

 Unfortunately I have had many events when my mind would make up stories about what may happen in the future. But that could just be overthinking. Every time I overthink, all I think about are the negative possibilities. Maybe it's just a way my mind is trying to protect itself from the possible outcomes, but it does get tiring eventually even when I don't want to think about negative things. Today we did several discussion questions in the class. I hope after school I get to go home and see my baby cousin because she was recently born.