{"id":8794,"date":"2025-03-14T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:18:57","slug":"sleep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8794","title":{"rendered":"sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the meditation business people are given a mantra and they are supposed to remember it and use it to interrupt a wandering mind, but minds wander. Why do minds wander? The answer doesn&#8217;t matter because minds do, that&#8217;s the program. The wandering sort of keeps us still in a dream even when we supposedly woke up from sleeping. A different type of dream perhaps but still a setting where fantasies are shooting off left and right. In the improvisation world that&#8217;s how I determine the interesting players from the less interesting. The lesser do not notice they are still asleep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the meditation business people are given a mantra and they are supposed to remember it and use it to interrupt a wandering mind, but minds wander. Why do minds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8794\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[899],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-improvising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}