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Do Dreams Reveal Actual Meaning?

By Michelle Teslick / STAFF WRITER | November 12

Do the dreams students have at night or during their long afternoon naps mean anything?Do reoccurring dreams have specific meanings?A few students and professionals agree that dreams are personal and cannot be interpreted, except by the individual."My guess is that there is very little, if any, research that would be credible on dreams," said Sarah Wilson, a local family counselor and graduate of Richmond University, with a master's in professional counseling.

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Sydney the Friendly Spirit, Auburn's Ghost Gone Forever?

By Michelle Teslick / STAFF WRITER | October 29

Missing: Auburn Ghost. Answers to: Sydney.He has haunted Auburn University campus for years until recently, when he disappeared.Melissa Dunn, program adviser for Camp War Eagle, said she has heard several different versions of the Sydney story told to orientation students while they tour campus.One story is that Sydney is the ghost of a soldier who died in the Auburn chapel when it was a hospital during the Civil War, and he still haunts it today.The chapel is on the corner of Thach Avenue and College Street and is the oldest Auburn building still at its original location.Another story Dunn heard is Sydney haunted the chapel when it became a theater for the Auburn Players in the late 1920s, and when the theater moved across campus to Telfair Peet on the corner of Duncan Drive and Samford Avenue in 1978, he moved with it."As far as where in the world Sydney is now," Dunn said, "I don't know."Paul Anton, senior in design and technology, heard stories of Sydney getting blamed when people's belongings would go missing."Mostly right foot shoes," Anton said.

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Do Dreams Reveal Actual Meaning?

Sydney the Friendly Spirit, Auburn's Ghost Gone Forever?

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