Dreamcatchers: Who Am I Unit 2
Welcome back to my blog. Back for another project on philosophy. In my class called Who Am I, we learn about philosophy and why it's important to us and why we use it. To bring together this project, we had to go on some FE's. We went to Cheetah Gym for a Jiu-Jitsu class, and the philosophy behind that. We also went to the Continuum Center in Hyde Park, because there was a little exhibit set up that related to our project. For our AP (Action Project), which is a project we do at the end of the Unit to piece all of our information together and put it into one big thing, like an essay, podcast or video, or slideshow. In this project, we were required to make a dreamcatcher. For this project, we were required to come up with a dream that we remember.
The dream that I’ve decided to put in this project is one that I’ve had more than once. It’s kind of stuck to me, and I remember it only because I’ve had it like 3 times. I’m going to summarize a bit, so it’s not as long as it originally was. This dream started off with a bunch of random people that seemed to have a lot of power, that were sitting around a round table inside a dining hall that was very dimly lit. I was some overpowerful superhuman, and the people in the room were talking about what they wanted to do with me. I ended up killing all of them and escaping the place that we were in. And since I couldn’t control my newfound powers, I flew right into a tree and the dream changed into something else. My little sister was in this “second part” of the dream, there was an old bald man that had kidnapped her and I had to save her using a bright red colored bike.
I didn’t put anything in the middle of my dreamcatcher, because I don’t know what truly makes me happy. There are some shallow things that initially make me happy for a time, like video games, or my friends, but I don’t know what’s my bliss in life as of this moment. Maybe I’ll figure it out one day. Positive things that I would like to be going through my dream catcher are anything positive that has to do with my family. I love them a lot and I’d do basically anything for them. I would like to just have good energy in my dreams. Some negative things and emotions I’d like to filter out through my dreamcatcher is anxiety. I get a lot of anxiety in my dreams, especially if some of them have to do with my family. I also want my dreamcatcher to filter out sadness. Any negative emotions like anger, as well. Even the toxic people that I’m still involved with, I would like for them to not show up in my dreams, that they’d be caught by the dream catcher.
Some philosophers that we’ve been studying for some time have some philosophies on dreams, and the mind. Descartes, for example, who is a Continental Rationalist, which are philosophers that were grouped together working in Europe in the 17th and 18th century, argued that dreams and waking life have the same content. Some of the philosophers in the Continental Rationalist period were Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Descartes believes that dreams and waking life have the same content because some people who have dreams can’t tell the difference between the real life and people who are actually sleeping and dreaming. David Hume, a British Empiricist, which was a philosophical movement that was in the 17th and 18th century, came forward in Britain during the Age of Reason and Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment were the same movement that took place in the 17th and 18th century. Hume believed that ideas were more realistic than dreams. He believed that we see our ideas again when we sleep.
My dream catcher is completely black, with a pencil hanging off of it. Black symbolizes a certain emotion for me, which is calmness. Usually, when I see black, it makes me happy. I added a pencil onto my dream catcher as well, because drawing is one of my favorite things to do. It brings out my imagination, and I put my thoughts into drawings sometimes. This is the dream catcher that I made.
Sources:
“Age of Enlightenment.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment.
“British Empiricism.” British Empiricism - By Movement / School - The Basics of Philosophy, www.philosophybasics.com/movements_british_empiricism.html.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.iep.utm.edu/cont-rat/.
Windt, Jennifer M. “Dreams and Dreaming.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 27 Nov. 2019, plato.stanford.edu/entries/dreams-dreaming/.
The dream that I’ve decided to put in this project is one that I’ve had more than once. It’s kind of stuck to me, and I remember it only because I’ve had it like 3 times. I’m going to summarize a bit, so it’s not as long as it originally was. This dream started off with a bunch of random people that seemed to have a lot of power, that were sitting around a round table inside a dining hall that was very dimly lit. I was some overpowerful superhuman, and the people in the room were talking about what they wanted to do with me. I ended up killing all of them and escaping the place that we were in. And since I couldn’t control my newfound powers, I flew right into a tree and the dream changed into something else. My little sister was in this “second part” of the dream, there was an old bald man that had kidnapped her and I had to save her using a bright red colored bike.
I didn’t put anything in the middle of my dreamcatcher, because I don’t know what truly makes me happy. There are some shallow things that initially make me happy for a time, like video games, or my friends, but I don’t know what’s my bliss in life as of this moment. Maybe I’ll figure it out one day. Positive things that I would like to be going through my dream catcher are anything positive that has to do with my family. I love them a lot and I’d do basically anything for them. I would like to just have good energy in my dreams. Some negative things and emotions I’d like to filter out through my dreamcatcher is anxiety. I get a lot of anxiety in my dreams, especially if some of them have to do with my family. I also want my dreamcatcher to filter out sadness. Any negative emotions like anger, as well. Even the toxic people that I’m still involved with, I would like for them to not show up in my dreams, that they’d be caught by the dream catcher.
Some philosophers that we’ve been studying for some time have some philosophies on dreams, and the mind. Descartes, for example, who is a Continental Rationalist, which are philosophers that were grouped together working in Europe in the 17th and 18th century, argued that dreams and waking life have the same content. Some of the philosophers in the Continental Rationalist period were Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Descartes believes that dreams and waking life have the same content because some people who have dreams can’t tell the difference between the real life and people who are actually sleeping and dreaming. David Hume, a British Empiricist, which was a philosophical movement that was in the 17th and 18th century, came forward in Britain during the Age of Reason and Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment were the same movement that took place in the 17th and 18th century. Hume believed that ideas were more realistic than dreams. He believed that we see our ideas again when we sleep.
My dream catcher is completely black, with a pencil hanging off of it. Black symbolizes a certain emotion for me, which is calmness. Usually, when I see black, it makes me happy. I added a pencil onto my dream catcher as well, because drawing is one of my favorite things to do. It brings out my imagination, and I put my thoughts into drawings sometimes. This is the dream catcher that I made.
Sources:
“Age of Enlightenment.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment.
“British Empiricism.” British Empiricism - By Movement / School - The Basics of Philosophy, www.philosophybasics.com/movements_british_empiricism.html.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.iep.utm.edu/cont-rat/.
Windt, Jennifer M. “Dreams and Dreaming.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 27 Nov. 2019, plato.stanford.edu/entries/dreams-dreaming/.
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