16/01/2026
There is a contrast I keep noticing.
Especially when I wonder into a shopping centre after being in what I would call semi remote communities.
Some thing stirrs like a glitch in the matrix or when I see me as a wave in the ocean it’s a moment looking out my eyes wondering.
Between remembering the process of awakening
and playing in the paradox of deeper, and deeper dreaming.
Some people wake up into the waking dream
Unaware of the dream…
Others choose to stay in the dream,
or to go deeper and deeper into it,
as a kind of hypnotic devotion.
Choosing hypnosis is very different
to being unconsciously indoctrinated through repetition,
through zoning out without awareness.
Might be what you are doing right now.
WAKE UP
😂
And yet…
whether asleep while awake,
awake while dreaming,
or dreaming within the dream itself
there seems to be a point.
A point woven into the greater mystery
where, without practicing what we know we are capable of,
without embodying what we know now .
there is a drifting…
Drifting…
Drifting…
😏
And it is in the drifting
that something precious is lost.
awakening has a texture.
It looks like noticing the signs again.
The singularities.
The small, precise touchpoints of human connection,
…eye contact,
…pauses,
…resonance.
It looks like seeing culture as a colony.
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Zoom in far enough and we see bacteria
more microbial cells than human cells,
whole worlds within us, shaping us.
Our microbiome
Zoom out far enough and we see cultures doing the same.
Colonising, replicating, mutating.
Not as far out as the Milky Way that’s too far out for now… even though milk and whey bacterial references too perhaps.
It’s like only a few arrived from the colony…
How did they get here?
Why these ones?
Who did they merge with, splice with, hybridise with?
Ever notice the similarities in people in places.
Which cultures were amplified?
Which were edited out?
Just like the food in our supermarkets,
the people around us carry stories of selection, refinement, and design.
Is this part of awakening?
To notice without paranoia.
To question without collapsing into conspiracy.
To stay awake without losing the dream.
Fascinating, isn’t it?