Aware of a subtle restlessness and resistance in my mind. Takes me a little longer to sit down to meditate and a little longer to return to activity after meditation.
Today, I made the choice to use a combination of music and the ultrasonic subliminal tracks during my medtation hour. The music functioned almost as an aural version of my zafu/meditation cushion.

Just providing some structural bulwarking for the day’s practice. A little something to brace against and interact with.
For the music I went to Steve Roach.
Also, I observed something interesting last month. It’s happened before from time to time over the years, but I’m finding myself reflecting on it more now.
I’ve shared a number of times on here that I’m supposedly aphantasic. I do not have easy conscious access to or intentional manipulation of internal visual imagery. Typically, when someone says, ‘close your eyes and picture [X]’, my most immediate experience is of the darkness behind my eyelids.
But this is an over-simplification. The imagery was and is there, I just wasn’t having easy conscious access to it.
So, in altered states or levels of consciousness (such as dreaming or rare times of trance), I do have visual experiences. Sometimes extremely vivid ones.
And that brings me to the observation:
At various times over the years, when I’ve been extremely tired or sleep-deprived, I’ve experienced very active hypnagogic imagery. The closest reference point for describing it that I can think of right now is that bit that happened at the start of Marvel movies, when many comic images and panels are flashing on the screen at a fairly high speed. Apparently it’s called a ‘logo animation sequence’ (thanks ChatGPT).

Like that, but at a much wider aspect (and, blessedly, sans corporate logos).
It just happens very quickly.
Also, it’s not immersive. It’s almost like my awareness dips into it and back out of it. Like when you push your face beneath the surface of a pond, and temporarily see a completely different kind of scene before you (due to how light travels and behaves underwater), and then pull your face back out and return to normal in-air vision.
And I think that’s pretty much what’s happening. Just experiencing different locales and regions within consciousness. Some are more accessible, some less so.
So, yeah, basically hypnagogic imagery. I think many people experience this, for example, pre-sleep.
Anyway, i’m reflecting on it.