Another exercise is to listen to your native language and try to hear the words as if they were a foreign language or as mere sounds. I mean, you can try this right now is our read these next four sentences everybody here. Try to listen to my voice your native language, try to listen to my voice as if it was a foreign language as if it was neutral sound, without the immediacy that we bring when we bring meaning to what is fundamentally just neutral sound waves right? So for these next four sentences, I mean, try it. It is almost impossible to do. De familiarize the word back to pure sound. This practice reveals how instantly we bring meaning to sound. The moment we hear a word We already hear it infused with its meaning and our history of association with that word. We translate to mere sound into a word, and therefore into meaning on the spot. Anybody have luck with that? It is really hard to do. And it shows you just how fast the mind is. milliseconds within a few milliseconds, a millisecond is a 1,000th of a second, within a few milliseconds. You can't hear my voice as if it was a foreign language, or is it was that bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, there's no meaning there. Right? How quickly do we bring meaning to just sound we do this with all this sounds faculties, not just with audition. I mean, one of the really cool things is, oh my gosh, there's so much to say here but this whole notion of non contextual realism. This is incredibly fascinating stuff that it's a very, very powerful contemplation that the room that you're you're you're in a particular room right now, I don't know where it is, but you're in a particular room. Obviously, you have other rooms in your house and in even actually, for that matter, like the space behind you. Well, what the scientists will tell you a little on the spiritual community. Is that that room that scene behind you actually doesn't exist until you turn around and enact that room. And one powerful way to look at this, this really smacked me when I was doing some experiments in my lucid dreams. It's exactly what happens in their dream. Exactly. You may think in an unexamined way that there's a dreamscape. And they're, you know, I'm having this dream, whatever it is, there's a dream world I'm in it. And everywhere I turn, there's the dream world. So therefore, I assume that world is somehow pre existing. Well, with a little reflection on the nocturnal arena, you realize that is not the case. There's no pre existing dreamscape in there. So every time you turn around in a dream, like you know, you're turning around in the dream and you're seeing something that's not there until you turn it in and actually enact it. So I use this example all the time, like when Carlos Castaneda says is one of his tips for lucidity, which I've tried and by the way, it does work in the art of dreaming, look at your hand. Well, he doesn't say is the hand isn't there, and neither is your body. The hand is generated. It's actually what's part of what's called Creation stage or generation stage practice Buddhism. That's where generation stage practice really comes to life in the dream world, you regenerate the hand and the act of looking at it it's not there. You don't have a dream body in there. Exactly the same thing in the Bartles there's no body in the Bardot's there's no nothing in the Bardot's but your mind. So what's what's harder to believe is like, Okay, you're telling me that's happening here? Yes. It's called non contextual realism, or naive realism that you think there's something there waiting to be passively represented. Remember, we talked about this a year ago, whenever we're going through dreams of light. This is a colossal topic in that book, the complete fallacy of representational ism that there is no objective reality that we passively we present not even close. We enact it, we create it, we bring it forth, moment to moment, a moment. And really reflecting on this and using the dream example, as an example is really quite a powerful thing. So when you leave this session and you go upstairs whatever, that doesn't exist, you're going to bring it forth in your activity of stepping into that space and acting it with your sense faculties. Reflect on that for a while. The illusion of contextuality so bloody fascinating.