Quote Originally Posted by Blackfox View Post
tibetan buddhists sleep in awareness. aware that they are asleep, aware that their dreams are just thoughts, being aware of that, they can observe, in awareness
Yeah, those are all physical sensations being yielded by physiological processes in the body. Instead of complex I am going to just say physiological from now on (meaning any process that occurs inside or on a human being). Awareness is the thought, you are right, and thoughts consist of images, sounds, tastes, smells, AND physical sensations. Images you see, things you hear, things you taste, and things you smell are actually all physical sensations. The only reason they get so much attention is because they are the most occurring physical sensations (and most important usually). They are all yielded by physiological processes within the body and can all be associated with the abstractions of positive or negative (varies with each person). Finally, I would like to say that thoughts to me are just basically anything that you feel (and usually remember). You can only remember physical sensations and that is it. The most occurring conscious thoughts are images and sounds for most people. Why? When we are asleep, we usually only have physical sensations in the forms of images and sound and not the hundreds of thousands of other things you can feel. You need to be able to figure out the world around you, and the best way to do that for most people are the physical sensations of images and sounds. Oh and by the way, many images and sounds you see and hear activate another area in the brain usually which I call unconscious reordering of thoughts which is a constant physical sensation throughout the day, but that is just my opinion for now and a theory I have presented using many aspects. That is for another thread perhaps haha.