Okay, so, I'll write in the last two day's posts today.

lol, nope, nevermind. Will do it tomorrow.

Dream

Intention (2230 the night before)

Internet being down this morning messed with me a bit. There was an additional dream (that I'll rwrite now before sleep) that I had on wake, but I call CenturyLink first thing.

After dream writing sleep time.

Packing Up Campers

I am with my wife at a heavily urbanized mobile home park. There's a lot of people set up for some sort of packing event.

I have parked my car in the way of some trucks and go to move it out of the way. This leads to my setup being packed first. My car has become a tiny moving truck.

We barely have anything to pack and the wife is a bit upset that we're expected to stay and help others pack.

I tell the boss that my wife has limited spoons and I'll take her home after a bit and come back. He seems fine with this.

That's all I remember.

Vancouver Flooding

At a friend's house (lives in Vancouver, WA). The area is flooding. Need to leave. That's all I remember.

Wake (logged at 0755 this morning)

Solid night of dreaming. Was feeling pretty exhausted yesterday. Told myself it was okay not to write anything down. Ended up storing dreams in head all right. Don't want to make that a habit, I don't think.

Feeling pretty good this morning, too.

Pre-nap (1454)

No real plan again. Maybe I'll try a psuedo-dream about Daysha (who I am trying to incubate a dream for).

This weekend is going to be a bit of a rest weekend, so I don't really plan on using this nap to try to channel focus towards some task.

Post-nap (1511)

Thought a bit about Daysha. Lots of political thinking today. Maybe I should organize it into places in my political section in Notion.

Meditation (Day 114)

Intentions for the day:

• Stay in posture part of prep until you're prepared to set the intention to stay still
• Stage 4 intention (vigilance on keeping introspective awareness continuous)
• Fall back to stage 3 if necessary
• Label the distractions, do it over and over so that it becomes automatic
• Learn the various different ways I guide myself back to the breath
  • E.g. away from tempting distractions, away from posture distractions, away from pain
• Note where the breath was when you label a distraction (attention, awareness, or forgotten)
• Before adjusting posture, mirror-check
• Mirror-check only when agitated due to worry and after counting to 8 in breaths

Proper morning meditation again.

If I can start waking up earlier again (say around 0600), I may want to meditate first thing in the morning again. Or rather, try it out again), time-of-day experimentation seems pretty worthwhile right now.

Post-Meditation (1100)

Today was a lot like yesterday. Which is interesting as I did it in the morning. So time of day wasn't a cause for anything yesterday. Looked up form and leg still fell asleep and grew in pain. This time, instead of laying down, I switched legs. Eventually, I had a setup where I was cross-legged but both feet were on ground. Done this before, might employ it for a while.

Lower-back back to complaining. Not sure what cause is. Will just sit in posture prep for that much longer.

Gross distractions didn't cascade, so I'm getting better at that. And gross distractions really don't last long. Pretty hopeful that I'll hit another day of no gross distractions soon.