Thread: Why aren't we always lucid

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

I don't think the chatter has anything to do with lucidity really - but it does come from the conscious / ego part of the mind. The left brain is the logical and linguistic part (makes it kinda easy to remember). I would say the logic part has more to do with lucidity than the language part does. The chatter is just because we have a tendency to do all our thinking through language now - we've sort of become endless chatterboxes.

My mistake, I get you.

But now that you've brought this up, I am very curious as to where the 'observer' is located. Is it in the conscious or the unconscious? Maybe it straddles both, or exists somehow between them? We may never know, or possibly science already has the answer and we just haven't got the memo on it yet.

It's actually located everywhere (and nowhere). You could say the observer is outside of space and time.
It takes time to come to this realization, but you can indeed prove it to yourself.

There are functions of "observing" in the mind. Functions of "awereness". But even that awareness is perceived by the "pure awareness".
You can be aware of pure awareness by pointing your focus backwards/inwards. You either reach a "back screen of consciousness" or "the void".

You can investigate the void itself. Check it for qualities. As it turns out, it is a proper void, it has no qualities, including location.

But try for a moment to think what it is like to be "pure awareness". This helps.
In deep sleep, pure awareness is aware of nothing. We all know what that feels like, timeless and spaceless.
Awake, pure awareness sees all the activities of the mind. In the unconscious part of the mind, there's not much to experience. In the conscious part, that is where pure awareness sees thoughts and senses.
What do you think it's like for pure awareness to see a rock? Much like deep sleep I imagine.
Then it gets interesting when you start thinking about plants.

The thing about the observer is. It's not even right to say that it "observes", because that implies that it's doing something. But it doesn't do anything, it simply is. Hence you may often hear the word "is-ness" thrown around. That is-ness is all around you, it's where you're looking FROM, THROUGH, and AT. This is the point where it becomes really natural to say "it's consciousness!".

It helps to know that pure awareness is all-pervasive.

Also helps to know the non-dual truth that the pure awareness and the things which appear in it, are not two, but one. Seems like a contradiction to everything else I've said, but it's not. Nothingness and somethingness, pure awareness and the appearances, are intimately joined in a unity, like light to a TV screen.