Brian Schnabel's Head Space
Where Magick and Mind Digitally Interlace.

Dreams, Reflections, and Tech Insights: A Personal Journey

Sunday, December 21, 2025: 3:24 AM: Visions and Dreams: After spending hours reading and relaxing, I think it’s about time I make my final note for today. That would be good, “Right?”

Yesterday morning, I had a vision that involved the date March 1. In this vision, I believed I was only a week away from March 1, and I thought March 1 fell on a Saturday. Things got a little confusing in the dream, but I’ll try to explain.

In this dream, I was having some trouble with my seeing-eye dog. It was similar to what Hesper had experienced in real time with irritated paw pads after walking on rough surfaces, like newly paved black asphalt.

The dog would stop like Hesper used to after traveling only a short distance, maybe about a quarter mile. However, in dream land, a trainer from the Seeing Eye was supposed to come work with me on this issue.

This dog in my dream wasn’t Hesper; it was another black lab. In the dream I had the sense that it was a new Seeing Eye Dog I had recently come home from training with.

I was out on West End Avenue with the trainer during what seemed to be a late afternoon period, and he told me he planned to visit again next Saturday, which I knew in the vision to be March 1st. The Saturday the dream might have been taking place in might have been the 27th, but I’m not sure. “The whole scenario was a bit mixed up in my mind!”

Suddenly, I found myself thinking that I didn’t want the trainer to work with me on a Sunday. Maybe my mind realized there was a mistake with the day and date, so it tried to correct itself. I’m still not fully certain what happened; it was all pretty confusing.

At one point, the dream shifted to a late afternoon scene. It felt like a cold fall day, though it could have easily been a chilly spring day, too. The air was cool and the sunlight was bright, similar to what you might experience around mid-October on a 50-degree day with strong sun. “Everything seemed a bit out of order!”

To sum up, March 1 has now become an important date for me, as has today. I know the winter solstice takes place at 9:02 AM.

I do know that March 1 holds some importance, otherwise the specific date, which does fall on a Sunday, wouldn’t have come up so strongly in any kind of vision or dream.

So, at this point, I’m not sure what’s going on. January 2nd popped up in a dream, and I haven’t a clue as to why that day would be so important, either. Maybe I’ll find out on March 1st what the significance is with all these dates in dreams?

Would it be too much to ask for more dreams that provide better clarity about these dates? “One can dream!”

Sunday, December 21, 2025: 3:28 AM: Reflection and Release: During a meditation I did in the afternoon, I ended up falling asleep again. It felt really good, pleasant, very relaxed, and I was right on the edge of being awake and asleep.

In that state, I realized that I might be putting too much effort into this process. I’ve been working very hard at manifestation or what some might call “manifestation magic,” but maybe I don’t have to try so hard.

I’m not exactly sure how to approach this or what the best procedure is. Perhaps I need to let go a little and not be so focused on perfection?

So, I’m going to do my best to ease up. Maybe I don’t need to repeat affirmations so often, just two or three simple statements, or a few short “I am” affirmations for two or three minutes at some point during the day.

Perhaps taking a “set it and forget it” approach for a while is the better way to go. That’s what I’m sensing, anyway.

Monday, December 22, 2025: 5:02 AM: Visions and Dreams: A short while ago, I experienced a vivid vision involving a young woman. In the vision, we were preparing to engage in sexual activity in a rather relaxed manner.

Before anything occurred, I took out the small thumb drive I normally use to record phone conversations. I switched it on discreetly, placed it inside the visor of my paperboy cap, and then set the cap on the woman’s nightstand in a way that I believed would go unnoticed.

As the vision progressed, we became increasingly physically involved. The woman had light brown hair and appeared to be in her late twenties or early thirties. The woman appeared to be no taller than about five foot five. She seemed energetic, confident, and emotionally warm.

The time of day seemed to be around mid to late afternoon. I knew it was overcast outside and remembered thinking it was a great day for doing fun stuff indoors.

Her bedroom resembled mine in some ways, including having a full size bed. To the right of the bed was a window with layered drapery: light colored fabric that hung down the center, bordered on each side by heavier, darker gray curtains. Her nightstand was a square cabinet style piece of furniture, roughly level with the top edge of her bed. The bed itself sat fairly high off the ground.

Throughout our interaction, she did not seem aware that I had activated the recording device or that I checked to ensure the switch was in the correct position. The device was the same thumb drive I typically use for recording calls, which produces files with a .WAV extension.

As the vision faded, I was just going down on her. She was tight. She was hot. She was wet. “It was all good!”

Monday, December 22, 2025: 8:27 AM: Updates: After upgrading my server from cPanel 130.0.16 to 130.0.17, WHM showed a version mismatch and the usual on screen upgrade log disappeared after a reboot. Here’s where WHM actually stores the full update logs and how to locate the correct file for any cPanel version upgrade.

When I upgraded my server from cPanel 130.0.16 to 130.0.17 this morning, WHM briefly displayed the upgrade output on screen. After refreshing the page, the title bar updated to 130.0.17, but the main WHM interface still showed 130.0.16. That mismatch was just a caching issue, and it resolved after a second browser refresh.

Once I rebooted the server, the upgrade output screen was gone, and WHM didn’t provide a direct link back to the log. WHM only exposes the upgrade log during the update itself, so after a reboot you won’t find it in the interface anymore.

The correct place to retrieve the full upgrade output is on the filesystem. WHM stores every update run in timestamped log files under:

/var/cpanel/updatelogs/

Each file corresponds to a specific update session. To find the log for the 130.0.16-130.0.17 upgrade, I just looked for the file matching the timestamp of when I ran the update.

There are a few other related locations worth knowing:

Last update summary

/var/cpanel/updatelogs/last

Legacy cPanel update log

/var/log/cpanel-update.log

EasyApache 4 logs (if EA updated during the upgrade)

/var/log/ea4/

WHM does have an interface section under Server Configuration → Update Server Software, but after a reboot it won’t show the full scrollback from the upgrade. The filesystem logs are the authoritative source.

This is the reliable method for retrieving upgrade output after WHM clears the on screen log, and it applies to any future cPanel version updates as well.

Tuesday, December 23, 2025: 10:33 PM: Visions and Dreams: Last night at 12:36 AM, I drifted in and out of sleep. During that time, I took the opportunity to practice some breathing exercises and tried to clear my mind.

As I relaxed, I reflected on a few personal matters, including social and financial concerns, as well as ways to better understand and use my unique abilities. My thoughts were somewhat fragmented, filled with vague images and a certain amount of mental noise and ambiguity.

Eventually, when I finally fell asleep, I experienced a vision. It felt as if I was communicating with others, though I did not see anything clearly. It was more of a sensory experience than a visual one.

As I awoke, I noticed a familiar sensation in the upper right corner of my head, where the side of the head transitions to the back. I felt slightly disoriented, almost as if a part of my mind was working independently. In that state, I recall saying, "You can give it to me," and the response was, "You can have it. We just hope you can absorb it."

Although I felt a bit unsettled upon returning to full awareness, I sensed that I had received something meaningful. I'm not entirely sure what was granted, but I suspect it relates to one of the intense thoughts I had before falling asleep, whether intimately social, financial, or connected to my personal gifts. Of course, it could be a combination of all three but, “We’ll just have to wait and see.”

Friday, December 26, 2025: 10:11 AM: Updates: I’ve attempted to use Copilot to clean up the grammar from multiple audio transcriptions at once. “I will never do that again!”

The performance of Copilot in Microsoft 365 Premium in general has been very disappointing of late, it often losing the thread of conversations and displaying other rather erratic behavior. After attempting to work with it for about two hours this morning on what should have been a simple project, I gave it up.

Copilot totally destroyed my file and the whole thing just isn’t worth redoing at this point. Add to the mix that Microsoft’s file history restoration option is falling short of the mark and, well… “It is what it is.”

It’s unfortunate that AI has been so overrated by companies and individuals alike. However, I am slowly learning how to get the most out of it in my day-to-day life.

The biggest obstacle with Copilot though is its lack of consistency. Combine that with its inability to manage large chunks of data with any dependability and it makes me wonder how Microsoft and other companies are really getting big jobs done.

Some say it’s because of AI. However, after what I just saw, “I’ve got to question that!”

The only consistent thing Copilot has done lately is to tell me it can’t do what its creators have advertised that it can do. Copilot also consistently claims it can do things it can’t, attempting to then pass it all off as you do not understand what it meant to say.

However, in the end analysis, this really shouldn’t surprise me. After all, isn’t that how a good Woke little politician frames things when they get caught in an out and out lie?

Posting that's a little off the trolley at times... Brian is a single Newtonian Gardens Apartments resident, Self-Publishing Author, cPanel WordPress Web Host and Windows 11 powered computer tech. He’s a musician, sailor, hiker, cycler and some women would say, “Magical, too!”