Varying Levels of Conscious Awareness in Physical *AND* Non-Physical

[light487]

Kinda toying with this right now as I live out my day at work. I'm trying to maintain my awareness to a displaced point of view, where I am not actually in my body but aware of my body going about its tasks. Like now, rather than simply typing away on this forum message, I am imagining that I am looking at myself from the side and a little above, watching with passive curiousity my hands typing on the keyboard and looking at the screen. Taking in the information and the acknowledging the outflowing of information but not really focusing on either. Hard to explain..

[light487]

Awareness in another way of thinking is "Being Aware of".. so.. you could "be aware of" being lucid in a dream; or "be aware of" being in your physical body at work; or "be aware of" being out of your body; or you could "be aware of" being both in your physical body AND out of it. Maybe it would be easier to understand using the word "focus".. as in "where your current focus is" or to going along with the awareness thing in general: "where your current focus OF awareness is". You can have multiple awarenesses but if you are not focusing on that part of your awareness, like when you go into BodyAsleep/MindAwake state, you are shifting (or "phasing") your focus of awareness away from your physical body and into your astral or mental "state" of awareness.

Using this thought structure it gives the "ability" (or perhaps a better way to put it would be, gives you the understanding or allows for the concept of) for there to be multiple awarenesses occuring at exactly the same time. Like a computer running multiple programs at the same time, you can switch/phase/focus to the Word program and do some typing but the Excel (spreadsheet) program is still there, running away in the background. While the "awareness" is able to multitask, your focus only has a limited amount of multi-tasking ability without a lot of practise. Your perception needs to be focused somewhere in order to receive stimulus and make sense of the information received, otherwise it just flies past. So you could feel your physical body breathing, your heart beating and sounds in the room while you are still focused on your astral projection but the focus on those things would be greatly diminished compared to your focus on the astral world.

[Contenteo]

Nice Point Xanth,

Let me jump in and suggest you all explore the psychology/sociology term, "framing" AKA "state control"

In short, it is the strength of your conception of reality. In sociological terms it brings in the concept of your reality vs. other's realities. In short, the strongest representational framework at any given point...wins. For example, when you feel "on top of your game" in a social situation, this is an example of "being in state" or "having the strongest frame." Reflect on your experiences, in these situations, were you not hyper-aware to some degree? Even on this forum, the one who has the strongest sense of what is happening at any given time sequence is the one who's reality is supreme. So Ryan, if I can add in conjecture with your revelation about awareness, your conscious awareness of you level of awareness ate any given point is also an important factor.

If your state of mind for any given time sequence is your awareness.
And your level of awareness leads to your ultimate perception of reality.
And your reality is simply a continuation of the culmination of your daily ideals.
And you ideals dictate you decisions in life and in essence what you reality becomes.
Then actively controlling your state of mind from hour to hour and minute to minute is the key to dictating exactly what and to what extent you will achieve.


Cheers,
Contenteo


P.S.
You know what, let me dig deeper, lets, not stop there, let's ask, why? Why is the framework set up in this manner, where intent controls state, state controls perception, perception controls actions through time, actions through time^{(past experiences)} control ideals and ideals dictate was is physically augmented in our tangible realm. For what purpose is our reality constructed in such a manner... Evolution for the sake of evolution itself? Would that simply be a necessity in the presence of a entropy constraint? What do you all think?

[Willtheory]

The way i see it:

When you dream and when you are awake you have the SAME EGO
But your like ON A DRUG and you feel so differnt that your memory processes(machine) cant pick up the signal and tell you that that dreaming person was you because theres too much information and energy involved. I mean your hormones and neurotransmitters are drastically differnt, but your EGO is still the same.

The way i see it:

When awake your senses are complex and non-concentrable but your thoughts are simple and concentratable
While when asleep your senses are pure and concentrable but your thoughts are complex and fractured.

What this means is that the longer you are able to concentrate on one PURE thing the more of its essence you can expeirience, whether its thought, color, sound, taste, thats why colors can appear SOOOO much more COLORFUL in a dream because in real life you only see a single color for a vary short amount of time before other colors and signal become mixed with it. Waking life is like a color pornography that never stops moving. You can never understand the true essence of white or green or red until you can keep that color still.

[ayearhasgone]

Dreaming is like being an actor who doesn't know he's in a play.

Lucid Dreaming is like being an actor who knows he's in a play.

Astral Projection is like being an actor who leaves the stage.   

[Xanth]

Dreaming is like being an actor who doesn't know he's in a play.

Lucid Dreaming is like being an actor who knows he's in a play.

Astral Projection is like being an actor who leaves the stage.   

Beautiful.