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WWE MITB: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Good 2020 Money in the Bank was advertised as "The Most Unique Money in the Bank" in WWE history.  Curiosity loomed over the the men's and women's MITB matches (which would be held simultaneously), but what delivered on one of WWE's more popular annual PPV's was some more old fashioned wrestling.   Drew McCintyre vs Seth Rollins:  This match was a blast.  It combined strength with athleticism and was backed by strong storytelling.  McCintyre, the newly crowned champion at Wrestlemania, was not a leader according to Seth Rollins.  This title was the cross for The Monday Night Messiah to bear.  New messianic esque music accompanied Rollins down to the ring, but there were no disciples to be seen.  The match featured a ton of highlights: a superplex into a falcon arrow; a German suplex off a reversal from the top rope; Rollins was thrown over the announce table; McCintyre survived a stomp; and the finish was classic high pace wrestlin...

The Subconscious Setting: Corona Dreams

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I dream about many random things: sports, school, family events, dark desires, and fantasy worlds.  Most of the time, the dreams incorporate strange settings with strange people, and strange plot lines ensue.  Dreams and the subconscious fascinate me, partly because I have never had a firm grasp on how dreams are formed.  Sigmund Freud believes dreams are the manifestations of our deepest desires.  I concur that some of my dreams are rather terrifying, but I have a difficult time agreeing with Freud on a moral level.  Certainly dreams include desires of the flesh, but they are more than that.  Carl Jung believes dreams are the interactions between each side of the brain.  So, in theory, dreams are created by the brain's subconscious conversations with itself.  Even though Jung is a Buddhist, his theories on dreams are the closest to reality that I have ever heard.  I spent time recording a dream journal, and I felt connected to my subconsciou...