I am really enjoying these exercises and hope many people take the time to try them! So I did have another aha moment that was developing in my previous exercise while driving but it got abbreviated until I returned to exercise 9b today. It gave me the sense that the world is my oyster; the world is my playground! There is so much beauty, wonder and experiences all around if you just allow the world in or allow yourself out into the world around you. Starting with items nearby I felt as if I can play with the items by freely dreaming. It was quite fun to play with these items via dreaming. Possibly got off course when one item I looked at gave me a mental visual of that item separated into horizontal and vertical layers which made me think of matter, atoms, and the even smaller particles within, but I felt that thinking too deeply got me away from dreaming, so I reset my focus. The fence and the neighbor's back yard was seen as a man made shield where comfort level would go down just on the other side of the fence, just as with the shield. By releasing the shield there was a world of experiences dreamed and "real" just beyond the fence. Then I went out to the distant trees and objects. I then had to close my eyes to go further: neighborhood, city, region, 300 mile radius, further to where my parents and brother live as if I could see them in a way and certainly "feel" them, further to the top of the Eiffel tower where I once experienced what felt like the whole world blowing upon my face and body. Even further to the moon, the sun, Jupiter, the Milky Way, and an attempt at the universe but that was difficult to get a true dreaming feeling for. I thought about the various distant stars and planets like marbles to play with but that didn't feel right, it felt too irreverent. I did dream the heat of distant stars and of cupping my giant dreamed hand around the gravity of distant planets.