HyperSpace Fool,
Thanks for sharing that. I agree it's most likely something that fell into the bucket. I wouldn't have seen it at all if the bucket hadn't been shiny silver, and the day bright. I'm supposing that others have happened to purge in places they could see what's what. I wonder if besides my experience others have had anything similar.
I read a National Geographic article on Aya that was so hysterical that I assumed the guy had skipped the trip to Peru, and just wrote it up from others accounts, not knowing where to draw the line. The last line was him looking into his bucket (or whatever) and finding a small snake. OK. I do have an open mind but...
On the other hand... One day after Aya I got "Aya-sick" during the morning, and tried and tried to get rid of something that was lodged in my trachea. It filled and felt in my throat like a soft thing, pulpy with a pointed end topside. It almost came out, but receded. I thought at the time, "If it'll come out just a little further I can grab it and pull the d*mn thing out." This only lasted a few seconds, but when it receded I quit purging.
I had an experience in SF LONG ago that, if there is something "real" going on, may explain all this, but I hope the h*ll not. I've successfully rendered those memories into a vague recollection of something I want no part of. I was a devotee of Crowley for a while. We'll see.
There is a part of me that is horrified by the very thought of little wriggles. Yet two days in a row I awakened, lit a cig as usual, and laid there laughing out loud at the picture I must have made at the moment I saw the little guy. Head in a bucket, "bug-eyed", staring into the swirl... I don't know. It cracks me up. It was one of those moments of absolute clarity when there no inner dialogue, nothing to share, pure experience, total surprise. I'm laughing now.
Yesterday trying to get a pic taken I realized the pic is going to look like a small black dot, and nothing else. I'll get that done if it's possible. I don't think it'll shine any light, though. Does Nexus have a PO Box where I could send this for someone to look at? Otherwise, I'll take it to the college when it re-opens.