Wednesday, June 10, 2026: 6:29 AM: One more thing I shall do today is adjust the sleep settings on my watch and phone. I know psychology plays a role in all of this, but I also know I tend to feel good after about 6½ hours of sleep. I may even need less, which suggests my own thinking could be getting in the way.
This morning, my sleep score was 74, and based on how I understand the algorithm, my 8-hour sleep goal may be too high. So far, the data suggests I average about 6 hours of sleep per day, so I’m going to update my phone settings accordingly.
Author: Brian Schnabel
A resident of Newtonian Gardens in New Jersey, he is a witch in the nontraditional sense: an explorer of consciousness, meditation, dreams, intuition, manifestation, and the strange territory where inner experience meets everyday reality. Accepting claims solely on the authority of a teacher, book or tradition isn’t in his DNA. His approach is experimental rather than prescriptive: he tries various techniques, observes what happens, journals, questions, and adjusts his practice accordingly. For him, witchcraft is a conscious practice of working with attention, intention, language, and intuition to explore personal transformation. He writes honestly about that ongoing experiment, sharing successes, failures, doubts, surprises, and unanswered questions here. He does not claim absolute answers as to what an experience means.
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