Daily Being and Biology

Outside of my classes meeting at the same hours each week, I don’t keep much of a daily schedule; sleeping patterns, meal times, and exercise can be vastly different from day to day, week to week. Any given Thursday at 3:00 PM I could be at a museum, programming, or reading in a park. In order to bring some sort of order and focus to my lie I install two daily routines to book end the day: a shower in the morning and journaling before I sleep.

While scrubbing my body clean shortly after waking I let my thoughts run out of my brain as I attempt to prioritize what must be done. This time could also be used to come to decisions, which the day before I decided “to sleep on.” Sometimes I shower quickly only able to focus on one exciting event I have planned; other times it can become quite a waste of water while I cogitate some unsolvable problem. I will sometimes scribble out math problems on the condensation on the wall tiles or glass door. Once I found myself pacing back in forth in a potentially dangerous manner.

Was sich reimt ist gut!

Today a substitute teacher led my French class. He mistakenly thought that my name began with an “F.” I think he may be the most demeaning teacher I have ever witnessed.

Dreaming On

The relaxed nature of my break has led me to not care much to write anything.  I can say though, that I had a lovely Christmas in provincial Nieder Sachsen and had a spectacular New Year’s here in Berlin.

I did want to post a link to this article on a new theory of dreaming.  I really like this article not only for its content, but also for its prose.  It reads as a wonderful example of nonfiction I thought.  It still doesn’t explain the combinations of sleep paralysis and dreams, which I experience from time to time, but it does add another interesting concept into my understanding of dreams.  I can’t help but think of Heinrich von Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg.