I’m vigorously at work on a large and complex structure. It’s engaging, challenging, rewarding. The expression for this work is: stone carving.

At some point, my thumb becomes sore from overexertion. Action needs to be taken. Suddenly, a friend/alter ego is the one with the sore thumb, and I am observing him at work. I start to take action on his thumb, to “fix” it, but he expresses some pain.

Then, in my mind, I imagine some approach to healing his thumb using some sort of mind-over-matter anesthesia that will dissolve any pain. This is effective, and I am then back to work in brightness. Architectural spaces brightly illuminated. A chamber or niche with marvelously multi-colored stained glass windows.

And I am very clear that I want to retain this notion and bring it back to waking awareness: stone carving