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Memories, Revelations, and Dreams

/ dreams, journal, memories, year in review /

2024 was a year of significant personal and professional growth. Key achievements included successfully defending a PhD comprehensive exam, publishing research papers, and organizing a large-scale cybersecurity event. Musical pursuits flourished with the completion of original songs and the production of the @Hack 2025 theme song. Alongside these accomplishments, a deeper understanding of self was cultivated through practices such as meditation and studying Advaita Vedanta. Looking ahead to 2025, the focus will be on completing the PhD, further developing musical skills, and cultivating a life of greater mindfulness and intentional decision-making.

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DFRWS USA 2024: A Butterfly Dream

/ dreams, higher thought, travel /

In this article I recount my experience in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during DFRWS USA 2024 – a conference on digital forensics that I have now attended for the third time. I pepper the story of this experience with the idea of the unreality of the waking and dream states, and how both are actually dreams, much like the Butteryfly Dream parable from Zhuangzi.

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Don’t Leave the Iron On

/ death, dreams, higher thought, memories /

A few days ago I dreamt a nightmare involving my late mother. In this dream, my mother left her heated iron on our black table for two and a half weeks. I returned home one day to find the entire home burnt, walls blackened by consequence of the fire lit by the iron. I woke up around 3:30 AM with my thoughts soaked by the dream, like an all pervading fog. I inspected it from its various facets of interpretation, and extracted the abstracted lesson.

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