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Buddhist accounts describe a quick 'grabbing' or clenching toward pleasant and away from unpleasant sensations.

Brains generate predictions and act to make them true, minimizing surprise (free energy).

Self‑organizing harmonic modes (SOHMs) are synchronous patterns that can carry information as resonant modes.

Blood flow can modulate neural activity (beyond mere energy delivery).

Smooth muscle can enter a low‑energy 'latched' state that maintains tension with little ATP.

Vasomotion acts like a compression sweep that pushes ambiguous patterns toward specificity.

Specific constrictions freeze local neural dynamics and act like medium‑term memory for predictions.

Sustained contraction engages the latch‑bridge, biasing future interpretation (a sticky prior).

Holding patterns can consolidate and smooth into defaults (annealing-style dynamics).

Hypothesis: the body stores and manipulates predictions as patterns of vascular tension. These tensions can freeze neural dynamics short‑term, and prolonged holds can 'latch,' biasing future perception/action.