> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.isaacbowen.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/07/18/notes.md). # Notes For a while there I was mentally designing a tattoo for an ancient dragon, curling up around my spine, running up my back. I couldn't work out the specifics, the interaction between the dragon and the spine. Would the dragon appear to enter my back? Or would a literally-depicted spine be a part of the design? I was describing this to a friend, and they noted that this is the actual depiction of kundalini energy: as a snake that begins life coiled up in the pelvis, and then climbs the spine to one's crown as life goes on. For a couple months, I've been noticing my breath naturally pausing at the bottom. My awareness regularly goes to that pause, where I feel like I've been waiting to breathe for longer than usual. Longer intervals between breaths. My mind would go to the ocean floor, a place that I visualize in meditation sometimes. I had told a friend that I felt like the permanent lapse of breath *non-fatally* had something to do with my time ahead. Today I finished a game called *Inside*. The player character is a child escaping some kind of experimental facility. The character is vulnerable, and when swimming does play a role, it's with the running clock of the player's breath. Then comes a bit where the player is unavoidably caught under water, *pulled* under water, and their breath expires — kinda violently there, at the end. And then... they go on. (Later in the game, the nature of the player's character changes, lol. A friend in the room was asking about what I was playing, and I said "well until recently I was playing as an individual, but I appear to have been absorbed into some kind of collective".) I decided a while back to explicitly trust my future self, and in so doing to trust my past self as well. Loops like this, connecting a past noticing with a present backreference, feel like a kind of handshake between different versions of me, different instances of me, at different places in my timeline. I feel like we're getting connected, all of us. :) "Ahh, and he's the princess?" referring to me, sometime last week, and appropriately so in the context. ;) I'm writing this while watching Princess Diaries, in which a princess is made aware of some things she did not know. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/07/18/notes.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.