People talk about being awake continually from the waking state into the lucid state with no interruption in consciousness. WILD.

I have had an experience of being continually lucid from the dream state into awakening and something amazing happened. I witnessed the rapid assembly of my awake personality. There is the “me” of the dream state and it is a different “me” when I am awake. The me of the awake state has to be a certain way, the way I was raised, the way I want to be seen and the way people expect me to be, working within the constraints of the personality I have created all my life.

The perception of this process was exactly like getting dressed. Just as the different articles of clothing are assembled in a particular order, so too the aspects of personality were assembled piece by piece, although there were many more pieces and it happened extremely fast. If I was guessing, I would say there were over 1,000 aspects assembled in little more than a second. It was like watching a video of a skyscraper getting built in fast motion.

I realized that this happens every time I wake up. The thing being assembled is what I would call the “false self”, the ego, the identity I utilize to survive in the world. I saw it get assembled so that I could go out into the world and exist as a typical human being, fitting in the way I am supposed to. Anyone who wants a taste of this can simply notice what changes between having your eyes open (what that feels like in all its complexity) and what changes from simply closing your eyes. A shift occurs in the qualities of consciousness. The shift I describe is like that times 1,000.

I would like to hear from others that have some direct experience with this phenomena. I have read lots of philosophy, eastern mysticism and new age theories, so I am not really interested in debating their merits as they apply to this question or any other.

I would prefer to only hear reports from people who are making discoveries in their own direct experience, not from those interested in debating concepts they have heard about and have opinions about.

thanks for your understanding,

JJ


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