[What is consciousness?]

12 hours ago, bardh said:

@Newbie dude

 

“Realizing” that you can be conscious of your self, others and your action can push you forward in the beginning. But over analyzing this experience is not so useful. Also, from my perspective  this capacity varies between people but with practice you can get better at returning at staying conscious. (For sure you have friends or family who are more conscious and less conscious) Unconscious in this context means when you are not experiencing intentionality or deliberateness. This is being conscious of yourself. 
 

Conscious is “hooked”differently in different person and for most of the people they already know how to do it.  Dont try to find it in experience, most probably you will just mess up yourself. For example, if you have played race cars games then you have noticed you tend to move the body similarly as you are moving the car, although you are using only your hands. Or if you are reading images, sounds , association pop up in present moment inside of you while you are reading. Being conscious of yourself happens similarly. (if you are looking to do some self improv and so on)

You can also hook to the experience of yourself being conscious of itself and become mega conscious lul, or, experiencing conscious and so on. Many ways this can go wrong. 
 

Also, from the prespective of consciousness you are always unconscious or to say automatic. Because experience conscious doesnt feel like any other experience and so on and so on.
 

The rest, is a hobby. 
 

I would say leave and never comeback to this topic :d. Or at least, you will do yourself a favor if you first understand why you are chasing such topic. 
 

I am stuck in this topic but i realize its useless. Respect, for the rest of the conscious community, afterall i will stick around. 

Leave and never comeback to this topic 😞

yes sounds right though, these attempts might be futile as you say

[What is consciousness?]

@Indisguise

"Show me nothing"

 

Well, how about Deep sleep devoid of any dreams?

That's the most nothing I can show you of.

 

Also yes, I can understand the futility of my question but my mind had to ask it anyway 😞

 

[What is consciousness?]

@Faith

18 hours ago, Faith said:

Hi, btw, love the name, but you might regret it in a year or so.😉

Anyways, if you are very new to all of this mumbo jumbo, then may I suggest you read "The power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. I believe you can read it on pdf (please no one post the link, since it's a copyright protected book). Anyways, just look up the book and pdf. You should get plenty of hits.

 

As for your question, consciousness, is who you "are", it is also the "gaps" between words, it's every-thing and no-thing, it's what is aware of objects (both subtle and gross), it's the ultimate seer, it's what knows the preciever and the percieved. It is what the world is created from and enlivened by.  I could go on and on, but what I definitely am not is a teacher.  So, I don't want to lose you.

 

Consciousness is the "present moment" as E. Tolle says, the power of NOW, this moment. It/you can't be anywhere, but "now". 

 

They are all objects known to consciousness. Consciousness, also known as awareness, can experience the world through the body/mind/senses.

 

The body/mind is a superimposition upon awareness, it mistakenly thinks it is the body/mind. Awakening is the realization that one is not what they thought they were, they are not the body/mind, they are awareness itself.

 

"What's looking is what you're looking for".

 

Hii thanks a lot. Would surely read the book you recommended by Eckhart Tolle. And haha, I would forever like to remain newbie dude, considering the infinite magnitude of this "rabbit hole".

 

Ah so you say  "They are all objects known to consciousness". I know the objects we both are talking about, at least I hope we both are talking about the same objects haha xD. But when you say "consciousness", my mind looks again for an object or assumes a "brain causing consciousness" or it struggles to find something called "consciousness" to have an reference experience of. If consciousness is prior to mind, then it'll forever struggle or grasp.

 

So how to move prior to mind or how to recognize I never was the mind? 

 

This quote "What's looking is what you're looking for" is also confusing xD.

 

What's looking - No-thing or nothing but the mind needs a thing. It refuses to accept this xD.   

 

Also deep sleep might be better reference experience for me for No-thing. There's nothing there and it's so nothing that I can't even say there's nothing there. So empty.

 

Also I feel like deep sleep and the awaking state like an On/Off light bulb these days. When I wake up, I "see" a lighted up room, when i sleep, nothing exists.

Read this Light bulb analogy somewhere but yes, it sure feels like light blub.

Can my mind grasp consciousness from this light bulb analogy?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[What is consciousness?]

Hi, so "consciousness" right now is a thought. But let's say we are trying to know or understand something called "consciousness".

So, are taste, smell, touch, seeing, hearing all contents of consciousness?

How to understand consciousness if it cannot be pointed to? 

How to make sense of consciousness?

 

Please clarify.

[Deep sleep similar to death?]

Hello "everyone". Would love to get your insights on this. "I've" been contemplating for sometime about Deep sleep and it's nature. From direct experience, it seems like there is no direct experience of deep sleep. Yet, if "I" want to think about it as a thought comes up. The thought has a mental imagery of an empty black void when "thinking" of  deep sleep. Certainly, the thought of "I slept deeply" is not actually about Deep sleep or anything. It's a thought. Yet, why does the thought want to "believe" of deep sleep. Also, if deep sleep does not exist from direct experience, what am I even talking about? Does deep sleep have any similarity to death?

Also what do people mean they are "aware" during deep sleep ? If there is nothing there, what are these "people" referring to?