Seeing dots and clouds when I woke up

The assemblage point always shifts during sleep. You managed to keep it shifted when you awoke.

But even people who don't try to move it experience this. You get up in the middle of the night, head for the bathroom, and when you turn the lights on the room is on fire with tiny dots and amazing patterns. They kind of "buzz".

I find that some nights I wake up to practice, open my eyes, and the room is already filled with dense purple streaks, swirling with jet-black.

That of course means, the assemblage point is below the ribs somewhere.

Paraphrased from a Podcast:

"It's vital to get to the point where practice is something that you get to do instead of something that you have to do. Even if what you make that day sucks it moves you forward and you prove something in the process."

Chris Hardwick in conversation with Tom Lennon