Thank you, SometimesP and Crescent Moon. The idea of practice...that's interesting.

If anyone has any more thoughts about this, I'd sure appreciate if you share them. I feel like this idea has so much potential, yet I fear trying it & starting off a bunch of intrusive mind stuff.

For example, you know the old trick for falling asleep - 'counting sheep'? Whenever I try to count sheep the sheep turn weird and start out being different colors, then they get creepy, and if I keep going (I usually try to stop at that point!), the sheep become menacing in certain ways. In real life, I like sheep just fine - it's just the images in my mind that frighten me so much.