Dream

I did remember my dream at the time.... I woke up in the middle of the night due to the dryer running. Thought I could sleep through it, but I was wrong.

The dream had a lot of content in it, but what I specifically remember is some sort of Avatar: the Last Airbender story, but there was a shape-shifter pretending to be Toph.

That's it.

Meditation (Day 36)

Played with the timing of my meditation this morning. Ate breakfast, drank latte, and took ADHD medication first. Did this mostly because I woke up late, but also that I've noticed being hungry during the sit a couple times and wondered how not having that feeling would affect things.

Overall, went fine. Still in stage 3. Forgetting the breath maybe once or twice during the sit. It slides from focus of attention to conscious awareness a lot, but that would be dealt with in stage 4. Found a pretty good posture at this point. A point on my shoulder gets a bit stiff, but that's it.

I think I'm pretty good at identifying various forms of dullness. It's the mind wandering that's the hard bit for me. Especially if I have some sort of obsession, like with work right now there's a pretty addicting task to work on. I can find myself thinking about it when it's not the time.

This sort of thing though continues to prove the value of meditation, I think. Not being able to stop thinking about a thing is a recipe for burnout, I believe. Giving it its own time and keeping it there will prove very valuable, and is in line with my goals and my theme ("practice intentionality").

Blog Progress for the Day

I will not be doing any blog stuff today. Woke up late, as mentioned, and there's a lot of work I want to do, and I'm pretty sure already not enough time today to do it. So, I'll make some more time by cutting a few things here and there.