This is really insightful to some of the things I experience. One thing that has helped me, or at least I think it has, is observing myself internally. Wake induced lucid dreaming has been a big part of this. Even the sleep meditation before it helps to settle my mind. For the past week I've become fascinated by mirrors in my dreams. A mirror in real life reflects your physical image but in dreams they seem to reflect my mental image or subconscious or whatever. These strange often bizarre experiences have really allowed me to branch out and be more active socially and mindfully. But it also has caused me to examine life and others much more. I've actually been getting really weird feelings that I dimly remember that are triggered by the strangest things like smelling a baseball, or walking into a public bathroom with just socks and no shoes (honestly that gave me a weird feeling before), or even just talking to somebody. Anyways I think you should at least read up on it, it's very interesting especially from a scientific viewpoint. I hope I'm not sounding to artificial or fakey or whatever.

One other thing...
Why is the cord consumed after drying/smoking meat in UrW? I can see it deteriorating after several uses, but being unusable after one hanging? Drying meat on a rack probably wouldn't even require cordage. I can't change it in the cooking glossary file because the recipe isn't in there. This is frustrating me more than it probably should.