Awareness Insight

Not sure where this belongs in which subforum:

As I was walking through the city trying to be more aware in the effort of greater waking awareness inducing better awareness in dreaming to lead to lucidity, I had this insight: a walk through a city is much like a bunch of dream fragments all strung together without an overarching plot, as I passed one conversation after the next, one scene after another, always coming in mid-story and leaving before I understood its meaning. We often like to think that our lives have more unified plots to them than they do, and we do not pay enough attention to these partial wakelets (like dreamlets only while awake), fragments of our waking lives that we are unaware of mostly.

We often like to think that our lives have more unified plots to them than they do, and we do not pay enough attention to these partial wakelets (like dreamlets only while awake), fragments of our waking lives that we are unaware of mostly.

People daydream way more often than they think, sometimes it's just a mere of seconds before your attention turns off and you begin to experience interior thoughts and ignore the outside world. This is especially true when we perform daily habits, or actions that tend to be common during our routines. The only difference is that unlike dreams, we have external input that ends up snapping us back to reality, and our logical centers of the brain eventually interrupt these "wanderings".

I personally like to think that life not as a cycle of day/night, but a single "thing" that is filled with loads and loads of individual moments :)

I think that dreaming and being awake are in general a lot more similar than people make them out to be. Both have extreme different levels of awareness (non-lucid and daydreaming, awake and lucid) which seem strikingly similar. I think that a huge portion of our lucidity in dreams is caused by our overall awareness in real life. I know that when I spend a lot of time outside in the wilderness I usually have more lucids than on repetitive rainy days, because of my constant awareness of my surroundings.

Yea, most of people are quite unaware during most of the waking life, to think about it if we were always aware of waking life we would be always aware of the dream state as well, that's the reason why ADA works anyways. :peek: