Dreamcatcher summary

This has been the most interesting school quarter of my entire education so far, mostly because of the location changes. We’ve had school in 4 places if you count online, and eventually this class is going to be the only one to have been in the old building, which has invaded my thoughts from time to time throughout the last week. Also, I’ve gotta wait untill the summer of 2023 until there’s any sliver of a hope for a proper kitchen, but I’ve never needed to use one at school, so at least that’s something good. We also rated seniors’ company ideas based on weather or not we would invest in them, and almost none of them had a profit incentive. We also went to a dojo of jiu jitsu while learning about defence mechanisms, which was interesting.

For the dream catcher action project, I decided to use a stick instead of one of the metal hoops wrapped in leather because I felt using a stick would be more respectful to the original culture. Unfortunately this ambition led to it being VERY hard to use the recommended string web method, so i just decided to tie string to it and use that as a base to get even more string on the dream catcher.

The center of my dream catcher is a shell, with it’s origins beyond ‘I found it in a pond’ yet unknown. It symbolizes the great creator in that i was in a sort of a shell in my earlier years. I hadn’t learned about any history past the civil war untill 8th grade.

The positive elements are symbolized with flags of liberal democracies (Argentina, France or the Netherlands , Bulgaria, Romania or chad if you prefer, Lithuania, Italy or Hungary if you prefer, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Egypt, estonia, Luxembourg.) these symbolize the good parts because i want a dream that is just bad enough to make me know how good my life is, yet not bad to the point of just waking me up at three in the morning before I’m murdered by a dream murderer. I want to keep out things that are negative to the degree of irrationalism. In other words, i want to learn a lesson from my dreams, and I want to stop having anxiety dreams, like how my partner interpreted my dream about a nuclear catastrophe back before i had any concept of MAD. Sometimes it’s even at the point where if I’m being chased in a dream i just think: “Man. This is boring.” And then I wake myself up. You see, whenever i have a ‘good’ dream I’m just sort of bummed when I wake up and it’s back to normal life. 

I decided to symbolize the bad with a bead string of Blue, Yellow, Green for Brazil. I chose Brazil because I think their government has been ineffective at helping the amazon rainforest while its burning and because of His Excellency Jair Bolsonaro (the president of brazil) backing up Trump's claims of election fraud a little while ago, when the biggest worry was covid.  

My dream catcher could be connected to surrealism with the juxtaposition of all of these modern country flags on a stick dreamcatcher. I can connect this to Epicureanism and rationalism because as they believe it is good to learn things through experience and reason, I want to learn lessons from my dreams that can help me in life. 

Here’s an image of the dreamcatcher: