YeeeHaaaaaa! Nine Hours Leads to New Project #3
Woke up this morning, the second straight night of 9+ hours of sleep. I have not had this experience in years. Perhaps 25-30 years. I cannot recall two consecutive nights of even 8 hour sleep.
Last night I did awake from several disturbing dreams, which I don't wholly recall right now, although the last few nights I know have awakened from dreams that I found disturbing, but the content of the dreams was not shocking. It was the feeling tones, or some clearly subconscious and deep feeling beneath the dream, some feeling tone that was powerful, almost overwhelming, but not clearly evident, as if there were some deeper language that I was not fluent in yet carried its freight. Odd. So I wake up relieved. With a bit of dread.
But the newe thing is, I can return to sleep. In the past, once I awoke, I would have been awake for the rest of the night.
I woke up in the middle of the night from a really absurb dream and after being unable to return to sleep I turned on the TV and found Bono on a taped Larry King Live episode. I was intrigued by Bono's "Project Red" and "Conscious Consumerism." Both are ideas I can carry intro the classroom.
I also had an interesting thought yesterday. What if, in the service course, instead of asking students to serve at various agencies in the community, we identified one or several projects that we would like to enact in the school, to transform the school, and the course was about identifying and then putting that consciousness in action.
For example, what if our idea was to raise the institution's awareness about consumerism? Or sustainability? How might we make our ideas visible and somehow reshape the institution? Bring this up to the students next week.
Maybe that could be an action plan option for Projec t #3?
By the way, waking up after a second night of 9+ hours of sleep? I feel calm, assured, centered, quiet, confident, not edgy, not self-conscious. Not necessarily full of go-get-em, but alert.
Last night I did awake from several disturbing dreams, which I don't wholly recall right now, although the last few nights I know have awakened from dreams that I found disturbing, but the content of the dreams was not shocking. It was the feeling tones, or some clearly subconscious and deep feeling beneath the dream, some feeling tone that was powerful, almost overwhelming, but not clearly evident, as if there were some deeper language that I was not fluent in yet carried its freight. Odd. So I wake up relieved. With a bit of dread.
But the newe thing is, I can return to sleep. In the past, once I awoke, I would have been awake for the rest of the night.
I woke up in the middle of the night from a really absurb dream and after being unable to return to sleep I turned on the TV and found Bono on a taped Larry King Live episode. I was intrigued by Bono's "Project Red" and "Conscious Consumerism." Both are ideas I can carry intro the classroom.
I also had an interesting thought yesterday. What if, in the service course, instead of asking students to serve at various agencies in the community, we identified one or several projects that we would like to enact in the school, to transform the school, and the course was about identifying and then putting that consciousness in action.
For example, what if our idea was to raise the institution's awareness about consumerism? Or sustainability? How might we make our ideas visible and somehow reshape the institution? Bring this up to the students next week.
Maybe that could be an action plan option for Projec t #3?
By the way, waking up after a second night of 9+ hours of sleep? I feel calm, assured, centered, quiet, confident, not edgy, not self-conscious. Not necessarily full of go-get-em, but alert.
posted by David Martin at 8:27 AM
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