The Three States of Consciousness (Video Transcript)
12.6.2011
Hey,
Jeremy Crow here.
Just wanted to do a quick little video on the three states of consciousness.
So the first state is Waking. So when you're awake and walking around doing your regular daily activities your sense organs are collecting information. Say for example your eye is collecting... well, not collecting, but reacting to certain frequencies and intensities of light that manage to get into your eye and hit the rods and cones on your retina. These rods and cones will trigger and fire an electrochemical signal into your brain. Your brain then takes this sensory data, along with all the other data coming in from your other sense organs and compiles it into an experience. That is what we actually are experiencing all around us when we walk around or sit around or whatever we do during the day when we're awake. It's a mental representation of the information that our sense organs are collecting.
Now when we dream, that's another level of consciousness that we experience. It's the same hologram generator that creates the experience that we have but when we're dreaming the data is mostly coming from internal sources like memory, emotional state, that sort of thing. So it's the same function of the brain that generates the experience of a dream as the same function that generates the experience of waking life.
Now what happens when that function is not active... it's when it's not taking data and compiling into a representation which we experience. When that hologram generator is shut off that's what we call Non-dream Sleep and in Tibet they've been studying dream yoga and sleep yogas for quite a long time and they figured out ways of remaining fully conscious within all three states.
So I mean you can kind of understand how you could be fully conscious while awake but they take it to another level. Fully conscious when you're dreaming is what we call a Lucid Dream. You're fully aware that you're dreaming and you remain in the dream and exert a certain level of control over that dream due to the fact that you understand the true nature of it rather than acting as if it were... You realize that you're not bound by the regular physical laws in the dream when you know that it's a dream so you can do a lot of other things with it.
Now being fully conscious during non-dream sleep, that is very difficult to conceptualize because we usually attache to the experience we have. Like, there's no experience of the body. There's no experience of anything at all except pure consciousness. It's a like a pure meditative state in a sense but contemplate that!
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