What I learned from 2 hours of doing nothing.

[CreamCat]

I had wanted to do nothing for 2 hours, but I couldn't find a time. Today, I found a time slot for doing it. I set a countdown timer for 2 hours.

It was a bit difficult to do nothing for 2 hours because it was hot today. I was sweating on my clothes.

During 2 hours, I frequently fell into naps and subsequently had day dreams because I was a bit deprived of sleep. I quickly realized I was day-dreaming and went back to the present moment. In those day dreams, I realized I was imagining all the characters in my day dreams. In those dreams, I was often characters that I am not in this physical reality. It was weird because I was those characters with my memories.

Leo often appeared in my mind and shouted "everything is one!!". Fragments of Leo's videos appeared in my mind. Leo was lecturing me about nature of human ego in my mind. I was verifying his theory that life is a dream. It seemed to make sense as a possibility. I was looking for elements of my day dreams in the physical reality. I noticed that in both the physical reality and my day dreams, every character including me was out of control. I couldn't control how my hands and legs moved during 2 hours. Free will itself was controlled by internal and external influences. Perhaps, illusion of free will is my ego. Perhaps, this physical reality is really my dream and everyone including this human called me is really just a puppet in my dream. After 2 hours of doing nothing, I was able to perceive the physical reality as a dream for the next few hours. But, other than temporary change of perception, nothing really changed. I was not sure about this experience. Was I hallucinating? Was it real?

Leo's videos + meditation = 5-LeO-DMT?

It was substantially easier to do the emotionally difficult thing and fend off distractions while I was perceiving reality as a dream.

Another good side effect of doing nothing for 2 hours is that I gained access to long term memories usually buried in my subconscious mind. Because I was constantly reminded of results of my own productivity research in the long term memory, my awareness of distractions and productivity was raised. Doing nothing for 2 hours made me more aware of incoming distractions and their destructive effects over time. In other words, I became more productive by gaining access to long-term memory that usually remains submerged in my subconsicous mind. Meditation jogs your subconscious mind and your long-term memories. Long-term memories raise your awareness of distractions. If you don't access your long-term memories, you will temporarily forget destructiveness of distractions.

Access to subconscious mind is good for performing at your full potential.

From now on, I am going to meditate for 20 minutes every morning before I start working.

Edited August 7, 2018 by CreamCat