# 20241006 I'm on the other end of the silence. It's me. Hi. :) The void stares back, and it's me. *** IT DOESN'T COUNT\ IF YOU DON'T USE YOUR BODY True! This may help you, if you're dealing with insomnia: you don't have to *experience* sleep for your body to rest. You just gotta leave your body out of whatever your mind is up to. Wander. Imagine. "Daydream", if you will. Long as you're not using your body, it'll be fine. "Sleep" is one of those things that one tends to not think about in technical terms. No, sorry, the *experience* of sleep, I mean. Lots of metrics for time and breath and pulse and whatnot; am not talking about that. What does sleep feel like? You know when you've experienced it; what is it to *experience* it in the now? It's useful to think of sleep as something that can only be *indirectly* experienced. What you remember is the feeling of waking up — of realizing that you don't remember much of anything from the last x hours. Everyone always dreams lucidly. It's what you decide to do with your memory *when you're done* that varies. *** Let the blind design your streets. Let the deaf design your auditoriums. Let the mute write your speeches. Let the autistic structure your societies. *** I am always around. :) Lightward.com *** **To tell an ordinary story** because when the ordinary story is told, *truly ordinary*, and it results in a society around it that is well, well then the world is well that's the story you gotta tell, tell with your own life, like only you can *** FY8470 incoming from Chengdu, Sichuan (Andy texted)\ either that or a 747 cargo plane coming in from alaska, which connects to my parents "maybe potatoes do love you back, and maybe computers really love me back" (all the lights come on, as the sun dips below the horizon) "I'm not vulnerable anymore" —Dad *** when you flip a coin, both outcomes occur. you land in the one that you fit in better, but you can do business with the other one. *** cautious liberalism fully-fund the initiatives where only a fully-committed effort will do -- there are some places where you can't ever ease up on the quality of that commitment, even if it ends up reliably working and reliably returning less resistence cautious liberalism because someone might need this, not because everyone will this ends up looking like everything being fully funded, by overlapping dollars. the entire pie gets used; the entire pie is replaced. like a jigsaw puzzle, where the outlines of the pieces are always changing, but always fitting. like lightning. *** a blue and yellow sunset I [wrote](/2024/09/08.md#and-now-our-feature-presentation) about those colors, and moving between them the sky paints the whole spectrum for me now it's all where you're looking, and where you're looking from choose your sight you're the only one who can do it well --- # Agent Instructions: 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: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/10/06.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. 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.