Whoooosh!
I've been exhausted for the past two or three days, waking for a few hours and then sleeping again.
Last night, I stumbled into bed for a nap, pondering a time puzzle. (Trying a new variation on a thought experiment I'd come up with; in an effort to understand what 4D was like, trying to picture myself as a 2nd or 1st density creature, without eyes or familiar human senses, trying to feel what it would be like from that perspective and how reality might appear from within it. I was making some progress, getting a visceral feel for how the same reality we live in is so incredibly different to other creatures purely as a result of the density of information available).
Anyway, while coming out of that meditation, I felt a wave of enormous energy blow through me, a roaring in my ears, like a sustained electric shock affecting my whole body. It went on for what felt like fifteen seconds or so. -This had happened once before a few years ago, not quite as intensely, and I remembered a promise I'd made to myself; to not be afraid and to try to just breathe with it and see where it took me rather than struggling to come back to normal.
It passed, but left me in a heightened and confused state. I wasn't sure where I was; I thought at first I was lying beside my bed on the floor, but blinked and realized I was still in bed. Very weird. After a few hours, things slipped back to something closer to normal, but not quite.
While walking through town I polled a few people. "How has your sleeping been over the last few days?"
Each person reacted to the question with interest, reporting some really strange feelings. Some were having extreme insomnia. Others very tired and sleeping more deeply than they can recall in a long time, waking feeling sort of relaxed and zoned out. One woman said, "I feel completely disconnected from everything. Like nothing matters and I just don't care. It's really odd." Another woman said she had experienced a lucid dream for the first time in her life last night, and that she willed herself to fly in the dream, another first for her.
I had to bring a large box home from the post office, and even though it wasn't super heavy, by the time I arrived, I was in agony of muscle pains. My digestive tract was also feeling completely backed up with gas or something. I could only groan in pain and move around like an old man. It is only now passing after eight hours or so and I still feel really bizarre and floaty.
My diet hasn't been anything out of the ordinary. Nothing is terribly different that I can point to.
Maybe it's the region warming into Spring; the air smells fresh and the snow banks are melting... Whatever the case, something seems to be affecting everybody I talk to in some way or other quite forcefully.
I thought I'd post a note here about it and see if it was just me and those few people I'd talked to, if it was perhaps regional or what...
So.., has anybody else been experiencing something exceptionally odd over the last couple of days?
I've been exhausted for the past two or three days, waking for a few hours and then sleeping again.
Last night, I stumbled into bed for a nap, pondering a time puzzle. (Trying a new variation on a thought experiment I'd come up with; in an effort to understand what 4D was like, trying to picture myself as a 2nd or 1st density creature, without eyes or familiar human senses, trying to feel what it would be like from that perspective and how reality might appear from within it. I was making some progress, getting a visceral feel for how the same reality we live in is so incredibly different to other creatures purely as a result of the density of information available).
Anyway, while coming out of that meditation, I felt a wave of enormous energy blow through me, a roaring in my ears, like a sustained electric shock affecting my whole body. It went on for what felt like fifteen seconds or so. -This had happened once before a few years ago, not quite as intensely, and I remembered a promise I'd made to myself; to not be afraid and to try to just breathe with it and see where it took me rather than struggling to come back to normal.
It passed, but left me in a heightened and confused state. I wasn't sure where I was; I thought at first I was lying beside my bed on the floor, but blinked and realized I was still in bed. Very weird. After a few hours, things slipped back to something closer to normal, but not quite.
While walking through town I polled a few people. "How has your sleeping been over the last few days?"
Each person reacted to the question with interest, reporting some really strange feelings. Some were having extreme insomnia. Others very tired and sleeping more deeply than they can recall in a long time, waking feeling sort of relaxed and zoned out. One woman said, "I feel completely disconnected from everything. Like nothing matters and I just don't care. It's really odd." Another woman said she had experienced a lucid dream for the first time in her life last night, and that she willed herself to fly in the dream, another first for her.
I had to bring a large box home from the post office, and even though it wasn't super heavy, by the time I arrived, I was in agony of muscle pains. My digestive tract was also feeling completely backed up with gas or something. I could only groan in pain and move around like an old man. It is only now passing after eight hours or so and I still feel really bizarre and floaty.
My diet hasn't been anything out of the ordinary. Nothing is terribly different that I can point to.
Maybe it's the region warming into Spring; the air smells fresh and the snow banks are melting... Whatever the case, something seems to be affecting everybody I talk to in some way or other quite forcefully.
I thought I'd post a note here about it and see if it was just me and those few people I'd talked to, if it was perhaps regional or what...
So.., has anybody else been experiencing something exceptionally odd over the last couple of days?