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In the early hours this morning, I had another dream that I was stuck at work. This time, my clothes got locked up and I couldn't leave the building. I think the object of these dreams are that I have to realize I'm actually in my bed, sleeping and dreaming, and that I have to astral travel outta there during the dreamtime of these events. Like realize I'm dreaming, and then taking off straight up as if I'm wearing a jetpack.
I wonder if astral traveling will leave me when I get more senile? I doubt it, but I could lose a sense of control. I only have a sense of control if I become lucid during my dreamtime. With the question being: Who/what gets lucid?
This goes straight to the heart of the matter from my perspective. Identity. The purpose of every human on Earth is to acquire a personal identity. Some call it individuation. Others call it enlightenment. If it doesn't include the dreamtime, however, it's not the real deal. If it's gone when you lose consciousness... what good is that? Real identity is supra-conscious. It's above mundane conscience.
I had a problem making milk kefir. In the last couple of days it became apparent that the reason it was separating sooner than expected, thus making it difficult to strain out the kefir grains, was that I was using too many kefir grains for the amount of milk I put it in.
Now that I've remedied that problem by using fewer grains I'm getting some pretty good kefir, and I'm making smoothies with it. Kefir of both the milk and sugar water kind have a sour, tart taste because the whole point of making it is for the kefir grains, the probiotics, to consume the sugar. I make smoothies to disguise the tartness.
Presently I've got about a pint of strawberry milk kefir in the blender sitting on my kitchen counter. I kept the kefir in the refrigerator all night after I strained the active grains out of it to get it cold before I put the frozen strawberries into the blender with it. After I blend them together it won't go back into the refrigerator. I keep it in the blender on the countertop and keep sipping at it all day long.
I could leave it on the kitchen counter without it going bad for days, perhaps weeks, according to some of the pundits. The smoothie I made yesterday morning tasted the same from morning to night. Whenever I wanted some I blipped on the blender, mixed it up again, and it was warm, frothy, and semi-tasty. I gotta work on the taste. I'm drinking it for the probiotics in the kefir.
Since I had to go to the VA Hospital to go through the pre-opt ritual before my cataract surgery happens on July 12th, I went to the health food store to get some mineral drops to put into the water kefir I make. The health food store carries some chocolate covered, candied ginger root pieces. Since I like both ginger and dark chocolate I usually buy a few pieces while I'm there. It doesn't happen often because it's fifty miles from here.
The idea of putting some of the candied ginger into the water kefir made sense to me. I put bunch of sugar in the broth anyway for the gut bacteria to eat and turn into kefir. I thought the candied ginger would flavor the water kefir pretty good, but I wasn't sure how the chocolate would do.
This morning when I went downstairs to brew coffee and check out the kefir I found out my doubts about how the chocolate would blend in. It didn't. It melted off the candied ginger and floated to the top of the quart jar. The candied ginger stayed at the bottom of the jar with the kefir grains, but the grains didn't seem interested. Another impulsive idea bites the dust.
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