I simply couldn't wait to
know whether 'my take' about it is going to take off or not!
The query was good, and I
got a chance to say what I liked to tell/sell/yell about!
The question:
How is consciousness
shut off during sleep?
How do we regain it when
we wake?
My conscious reply:
We insist on a memory
recollection of anything that we are going to accept at all, to be
existing, to be real, to be so...!!!
We do not have any 'reside' of our deep sleep states (dream does not belong to that 'deep' state of sleep)...
And yet we know, we slept well, because of our 'after effects' that we experience... Well rested, mind feels fresh, etc!
The problem is about that 'self-awareness' which our mind is unable to record, during the sleep... (our sense organs remain withdrawn... and our mind happens to depend on only the inputs received through sense organs... other than that, the mind uses the memory data to do that permutation and combination, to call it as 'creativity/innovation' etc!!!... But, we miss to take note of the self-awareness, which is witnessing all this drama... Some times, we experience "My-mind" and 'My body" distinctly... most of the other times, it is "I am .. the body/mind"... )
There are spiritual practices available to create a possibility that our consciousness does not get shut off during sleep! Once that happens, there is a by-product! (Like, 'Buy-one, take one-free'!).. the by-product is that when this body is unable to sustain/support this consciousness (what we call as clinical death, as per our dear doctor's certificate)... our consciousness would know, it would tell itself, "well our game is over now, with this body"... !!!
The second point... How do we regain it?... (Well, when the question becomes intense, "am I alive"... the sensory levels of perception get invoked... And that is how we awake, not because the sleep quota is over, or that we are well rested!!! Some of us do not yet know the distinction even.. And when we know the distinction, we do not know why on some days, we feel more sleepy after waking... and yet on some other days we feel more tired after waking!)... This consciousness, gets restored only during sleep states right now (we do not allow it other times, that is the only problem! Spiritualists manage to allow restoration even during non-sleep states! That is also known as 'meditative-states'!)...
....
Nice question!
got that opportunity , due to this question, to push my hidden agenda gently across!!! :)
Thanks for that!
We do not have any 'reside' of our deep sleep states (dream does not belong to that 'deep' state of sleep)...
And yet we know, we slept well, because of our 'after effects' that we experience... Well rested, mind feels fresh, etc!
The problem is about that 'self-awareness' which our mind is unable to record, during the sleep... (our sense organs remain withdrawn... and our mind happens to depend on only the inputs received through sense organs... other than that, the mind uses the memory data to do that permutation and combination, to call it as 'creativity/innovation' etc!!!... But, we miss to take note of the self-awareness, which is witnessing all this drama... Some times, we experience "My-mind" and 'My body" distinctly... most of the other times, it is "I am .. the body/mind"... )
There are spiritual practices available to create a possibility that our consciousness does not get shut off during sleep! Once that happens, there is a by-product! (Like, 'Buy-one, take one-free'!).. the by-product is that when this body is unable to sustain/support this consciousness (what we call as clinical death, as per our dear doctor's certificate)... our consciousness would know, it would tell itself, "well our game is over now, with this body"... !!!
The second point... How do we regain it?... (Well, when the question becomes intense, "am I alive"... the sensory levels of perception get invoked... And that is how we awake, not because the sleep quota is over, or that we are well rested!!! Some of us do not yet know the distinction even.. And when we know the distinction, we do not know why on some days, we feel more sleepy after waking... and yet on some other days we feel more tired after waking!)... This consciousness, gets restored only during sleep states right now (we do not allow it other times, that is the only problem! Spiritualists manage to allow restoration even during non-sleep states! That is also known as 'meditative-states'!)...
....
Nice question!
got that opportunity , due to this question, to push my hidden agenda gently across!!! :)
Thanks for that!
psn(23rd
March, 2013)
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