Quote Originally Posted by ZenLD View Post
There also might be that consciousness . Just pure awareness without thought or anything... Like the one in Robert Waggoner book regarding feeling tone sort of thing or dream yoga practices?
I'm glad you brought that up. I have actually experienced that dreamless consciousness twice in these past weeks. Both times it came after a period of very strong hypnagogic preparation at a time when I was nowhere near my optimal REM cycle and resulted in an hour or more of dreamless conscious awareness that left me feeling intensely fulfilled. One of those times was a brief but intense period of floating in a sea of soothing blackness with my senses open wide. That brief moment took close to two hours by the bedside clock.

Those were very strong experiences. I'm thinking that I touched into a sleep yoga state rather than dream yoga.

Not sure where that fits into the levels of consciousness.......it felt more like slipping into some sort of space that runs underneath all of that.

Are there more?
I bet there are.