In my high school I have a class called "who am I?", and this class is about
philosophy and it's about finding yourself and finding what you believe in.
We have been in the Unit "doubt and dream", and our project for this unit
was to make a dreamcatcher. This is not for decoration, because that is not
the purpose of dreamcatchers. This is my dreamcatcher that I made not in
a craft class but in "who am I" class. This means it is about who I am and
what I want it to help me with, and It is not for decoration. We learned
about the Ojibwe people (who made dreamcatchers) so that we could make
them with respect and knowledge. The purpose of dreamcatchers are to
catch in it's web the bad thoughts coming to your dreams and let the good
thoughts peacefully flow through to our minds through the path of the
dreamcatcher. This project's purpose was to open the door between the
unconscious and the conscious world.
In my dreamcatcher I used yarn, pinkish fake leather, a metal ring, orange
string, yellow beads, a little origami thing, and an important spiritual ring.
The yarn, origami thing, and spiritual ring were things I had in my house.
The leather, metal ring, string, and beads I got from my teacher
already. The reason I chose to use orange string was because orange is the
color for communication and I want the communication to use its power to
stop the un-communication troubles that will try to get to me. I used the
beads so that they can fend off the negative feelings trying to come my way.
Beads are protective, orange is for communication, which is why my web is
orange, to catch the things doubting my communication abilities. Yellow is
a color that Is in my dreamcatcher for these dreams to come to me. Yellow
represents friendship, and I care a lot about my friendships. Yellow is there
for good dreams with my friends in them. Yellow also represents creativity,
and optimism. These are all the things that I care about the most and that I
want to be in my dreams or to have when I wake up, so that's why my
dreamcatcher has yellow. My goal in life is to make others happy with
kindness and love because I care for so many people. This is why there is a
sort of pink on the loop of my dreamcatcher. My special ring in the center
of my dreamcatcher is my lucky ring. My grandmother gave it to me a long
time ago and it was always special to me because nobody had given me an
actual ring before. This ring is to give luck and to use its power to keep the
bad thoughts away and attract the good thoughts and dreams. I want the
dreamcatcher to trap the self consciousness and the doubting of myself. I
want it to catch the fear of talking.
Crafting is what I have spent my whole life doing and something I cannot
live without. In the center of my dreamcatcher there is a made up origami
piece that I probably made about 4 years ago. This symbolizes my
dedication to crafting and what has made me who I am today.
I want dreams that will make me feel satisfied, confident, and content
when I wake up. I want dreams to come to me that will have clear
meanings for me to successfully pass through the challenges of the day. I
would love for fun things to happen in my dreams like being with my
friends that I can’t have in real life quite yet because of the pandemic.
In a dream I had recently I noticed some of Frued's ideas about dreams
show up. This was wish fulfilment and ID (needing to prove myself)
because of how much I spoke up and solved issues in that dream, and
another was how my surroundings affected my subconscious dream like
the pandemic made me dream of everyone buying toilet paper and toilet
paper only. (This could have happened because of the pandemic, I actually
hadn't thought about that connection until someone mentioned it after I
told them my dream). I spoke up a lot in that dream, but more than once I
hesitated to do so. Maybe trying to understand everyone's point of
argument would have made things calmer. If I think about the British
empiricists I know that they would not believe those ideas Frued had
because they haven't SEEN proof and they don't believe it if they don't see
it. Then there are the continental rationalists. I think they make more
sense. They would probably agree because they judge by reason and if you
think about it, it makes sense. I would say it makes sense, so that's why
also believe in that reason and idea about dreams. I also believe that my
dreamcatcher will help with giving me the most beautiful dreams and
thoughts.
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