Thread: Why aren't we always lucid

Ahah yeah defos a terminology breakdown here. I have that problem a lot, with the stuff I'm interested in xD Slowly learning to overcome these hurdles though.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

There's also some confusion coming from the fact that Buddhists use the word consciousness to refer to awareness, but divorced from left-brain conscious thought. So it's a sort of unconscious awareness. I THINK - though possibly it does stem from the right-brain/unconscious? We just need to be careful when we use loaded terms like this that we understand exactly what we mean by them.

Very good point. I get very jumbled because I shift from perspective to perspective all day long.

Indeed I refer to the word consciousness as awareness. When I first seen it used that way I was like "wtf that's not consciousness", but I've gotten a bit too used to it. xD
I also use "consciousness" to refer to experience. Everything we experience is consciousness, all we know is consciousness.

Unconscious awareness is indeed a good way to describe my meaning of "highly conscious". Weirdly.

But the weird thing about this unconscious awareness is, you're aware of everything, exactly as it is. Just without the chatter and the filters we usually look through. I sometimes refer to it as "super lucidity". But I guess that's stupid when you consider lucidity to be all about the chatter.


EDIT:
So, if we're taking "lucidity" to be in relation to the head-chatter. Then lucid dreaming is indeed due to evolution. My bad. It's still natural tho. Anything your mind does is natural.