Connection: Dreams and Einstein's dreams

Einstein's dreams, the novel, talks about different dreams that have a running theme through all of them. This theme is: time. If one reads each chapter separately, they really don't make much sense, nor do they when read together. The only thing that ties them all together is time and the way that each speaks of time.
My dreams often have a running theme through out them as well. They are colorful and random, super vivid, and more real than life but the thing that ties them all together is that they let me explore my hidden secrets. Things that I try to avoid in real life, come out in my dreams.
Some times having your secrets revealed in your dreams can be a good thing and some times they are too hard to face. If I am struggling with friends or enemies, I often have dreams that I am running away from something.
Couple of years back, I had the most vivid dream of me running away from my two enemies. They had guns and I didn't. It was snowy all over and there was one path that I could run on. I ran and ran and found some card board that I decided to hide under. As I'm sitting there, breathing like a long time smoker, one of my enemies runs up and points the gun at my forehead. In the blink of an eye she had shot me and next thing I know: I am laying in my bed, scared to open my eyes because I think that all I will see is white nothingness... in my mind, that was heaven. Finally I open my eyes only to be releaved to see my room in perfect silence and peace around me.
These dreams are hard to face, but after I do, normal life becomes much easier.
People who I don't want to think about come up in my dreams in ways that I want to see them, or the way that they are that I am trying to pretend is false.
Overall, just like in Einstein's dreams, my theme of facing hidden thoughts in my dreams is a very broad theme, just like time is in this novel. It leaves room for much imagination and makes me want to sleep forever just to see what my mind can create.
Dreams really are fascinating and it is a shame we can't always remember them.

Metacognition: First semester

This semester definitely did not turn Out how I thought it would. Shadow catcher taught me to pay more attention to languAge in books and I started to pay more attention to the double story lines. Sophie's world was the first book I ever read that was philosophy for teenagers and it let me remember much more information than I would from a normal class.
The videos that we watvhed were very random but all interesting in there own way. I learned much more than I thought I would this semester.