Okay so its been 5 days! I know, I know I made a commitment, sleep deprivation is a pretty good excuse for not writing. It's what I have been warned about art residencies. You stay up late just to work in the studio and there is no one telling you what to do or when to go to bed. This all started when my roommate demanded that I be in by eleven PM and I rebelled by staying our till 2:00 just to avoid her. I also spent time in the library each night writing this blog, but I always got up early before 8 so I could walk by the water and in the woods. What a distinct pleasure bringing me back to the most pleasurable moments of my childhood; the granite rocks, the mussel shells, the pulsing tide with the landscape of islands at the back.
At any rate one thing lead to another and I was soon getting to bed by 3:30 and waking up at 7:30. 4 hours seemed to be enough for me and I did not feel sleepy. But the net result was driving home down the coast feeling narcoleptic and then arriving at my Somatic Experiencing training in a semi-psychotic state. My body was so depleted that I almost tipped over twice during the morning lecture. Later during the practice I feel asleep on a coach Today I was refreshed and ready to absorb new material, but because of my dissociated state, I did not care whether I learned the new terminology and techniques. I had only to slow it right down and follow my gut. Oh and then there's the masseuse and the salt water pool. But the shooting from the gut and winging it on instincts is exactly the way to go with this technique which cannot be learned in books.
At any rate one thing lead to another and I was soon getting to bed by 3:30 and waking up at 7:30. 4 hours seemed to be enough for me and I did not feel sleepy. But the net result was driving home down the coast feeling narcoleptic and then arriving at my Somatic Experiencing training in a semi-psychotic state. My body was so depleted that I almost tipped over twice during the morning lecture. Later during the practice I feel asleep on a coach Today I was refreshed and ready to absorb new material, but because of my dissociated state, I did not care whether I learned the new terminology and techniques. I had only to slow it right down and follow my gut. Oh and then there's the masseuse and the salt water pool. But the shooting from the gut and winging it on instincts is exactly the way to go with this technique which cannot be learned in books.
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