Dream

Did dream last night. Tried out narrating it when I was awake. This did not help me remember. Need to log the narration as I'm doing it. Have journal next to bed. Might try that. Might try recording into phone.

Meditation (Day 44)

I went into the meditation with the intention to keep the same pose the entire 45 mintues, but I gave in to agitation due to worry with 16 minutes left, and reversed form. I think I'll do a "1-minute increase at a time" strategy from here. It took me 29 minutes before I gave in, so I'll do 30 minutes tomorrow. So-on and so-forth until 45 minutes.

The main thing is just getting over the worry that I might be doing permanent damage. As long as my legs feel fine the rest of the day, then a 1-minute increase is fine.

Today wasn't as easy as two days ago, but it wasn't as hard as yesterday. Forgot the breath a couple times, I think, though again the breath usually brings me back, so possibly it is still in conscious awareness, just not the focus of attention. I did eventually get a solid frequency of invoking introspective attention, and even got some vigilance in with introspective awareness.

Today was also the return of feeling the need to meditate. Like, there's this mind fog that makes me tired and slows me down, and meditation clears it right up.

Decided against trying the body-scanning mind-exercise today, though. Maybe tomorrow. I'm thinking I won't mark stage 3 as mastered this week (I decide on mastery every weekly review). But wouldn't be surprised if I marked it as mastered next week.

Again, lots of stuff improving, and I'm still feeling the positive results of meditation. Don't see me giving up on meditation any time soon, which is really cool.

Extracurricular Stuffs

So, it being a weekend, I will absolutely not do any work-related extracurriculars. Today being wife-day, I might not do any extracurriculars at all. Or rather, I have until my wife is ready to go grocery shopping, which could be any minute now.

I may just organize my projects area a bit in Notion (which is where I organize extracurricular work, e.g. I wrote the meditation blog post there).