dream
Melissa
I just wanted to share this dream, it's not really offtopic, but it's
taken me a few days to get the point where I feel I should share it.
I have a lot of dreams, several every night. Some are pretty much
instantly recognizable as 'junk mail', but most are messages.
In this dream, my kids and I were walking through a
wasteland...obviously some end-of-world type of thing. We were
scavenging for survival stuff, food, clothes, the little ones were
picking up toys and such. Josh and I were finding books, keeping them
because we love to read and we were going to rebuild the library.
One book he picked up was a saxon algebra book, in fact, it was the
one he bought for himself at a curriculum sale we attended recently.
(He's got the knowledge base for it, and is curious, but mostly wants
to do it, I think, to prove that he can. Although he did the first
few chapters by himself and hasn't touched it since) We walked for
miles and miles, balancing everything. Josh had the most trouble
though, because he couldn't balance that one book. Finally I grabbed
it from him and threw it over the edge of a cliff! He was shocked,
but I just said, "you know, it doesn't matter anymore....it's okay to
let it go. In our new life, we have to just realize that some things
aren't as important as they used to be" We ran over to the cliff to
see what had happened to it, and it was miles below, in a crevasse
FULL of old math books.
I just woke up, amazed that I was not able to process that while
awake. But I really feel like I'm taking a huge step internally. Even
though we've been living this for a while, obviously I was still
having issues.
Anyway, just wanted to share.
Melissa
Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
(2), and Avari Rose
share our lives at
http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma
taken me a few days to get the point where I feel I should share it.
I have a lot of dreams, several every night. Some are pretty much
instantly recognizable as 'junk mail', but most are messages.
In this dream, my kids and I were walking through a
wasteland...obviously some end-of-world type of thing. We were
scavenging for survival stuff, food, clothes, the little ones were
picking up toys and such. Josh and I were finding books, keeping them
because we love to read and we were going to rebuild the library.
One book he picked up was a saxon algebra book, in fact, it was the
one he bought for himself at a curriculum sale we attended recently.
(He's got the knowledge base for it, and is curious, but mostly wants
to do it, I think, to prove that he can. Although he did the first
few chapters by himself and hasn't touched it since) We walked for
miles and miles, balancing everything. Josh had the most trouble
though, because he couldn't balance that one book. Finally I grabbed
it from him and threw it over the edge of a cliff! He was shocked,
but I just said, "you know, it doesn't matter anymore....it's okay to
let it go. In our new life, we have to just realize that some things
aren't as important as they used to be" We ran over to the cliff to
see what had happened to it, and it was miles below, in a crevasse
FULL of old math books.
I just woke up, amazed that I was not able to process that while
awake. But I really feel like I'm taking a huge step internally. Even
though we've been living this for a while, obviously I was still
having issues.
Anyway, just wanted to share.
Melissa
Mom to Josh (11), Breanna (8), Emily (7), Rachel (6), Sam (4), Dan
(2), and Avari Rose
share our lives at
http://360.yahoo.com/multimomma
[email protected]
Thanks for sharing your dream Melissa. I remember my pivotal unschooling dream. It started out like a regular scholl panic dream. I was in school, unprepared, looking for classes I had forgotten I signed up for, taking tests I knew nothing about. I used to have those any time i was stressed in real life.
Only this time I stopped in the middle of the dream and said "wait I forgot, none of this matters." It was sooooo freeing. I remember waking up so relaxed. I haven't had a school dream since.
--
~Mary
http://zenmommasgarden.blogspot.com/
"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the
green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly
alive."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Only this time I stopped in the middle of the dream and said "wait I forgot, none of this matters." It was sooooo freeing. I remember waking up so relaxed. I haven't had a school dream since.
--
~Mary
http://zenmommasgarden.blogspot.com/
"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the
green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly
alive."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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