04-15-2017, 12:00 AM
"I feel like I am at a point of something more like dreaming while awake. I once established that awareness is simply Acute focus based on duration, which has varying degrees of expansion and divsion. So that being said, My awareness is not able to focus on anything for an extended period of time."
Lucidity I think it's perfectly natural to have your awareness bounce around amidst the ever changing world around us. The key is (at least from my perspective), amidst this roving/roaming/surfing, cultivating a sense of central awareness.
I don't know if you read CC's The Art of Dreaming, but in it Don Juan taught Carlos to find his hands while dreaming and, in doing so, lucidity was established....a sense of central awareness within which he knew he was dreaming. And then, in order to sustain that central state of awareness...to not get "lost" in dreaming...to not lose lucidity...he had Carlos glance at various things/people in the dream...to touch on them briefly and then glance back at his hands to stabilize the lucidity. Carlos got better and better at sustaining lucidity amidst his lucid dreams.
Something similar can be done during daily awareness, in a manner of speaking. My attention roams quickly and easily this way and that, from one thing to another, amidst my day. Hell, I've been told I have ADD! And that's cool....nothing wrong with that. The key for me is, as frequently as I can remember, to bring my awareness back to "home base"....to here, in my core. To cultivate a sense of silent awareness, like a ball that just radiates out from a central position deep with, that's not attached to anything in particular. It floats free and detached and, because its detached, it can go anywhere. Its always right here, deep within wherever we are. Lucidity gathers momentum in that center...and it can certainly be taken with us into dreaming
Lucidity I think it's perfectly natural to have your awareness bounce around amidst the ever changing world around us. The key is (at least from my perspective), amidst this roving/roaming/surfing, cultivating a sense of central awareness.
I don't know if you read CC's The Art of Dreaming, but in it Don Juan taught Carlos to find his hands while dreaming and, in doing so, lucidity was established....a sense of central awareness within which he knew he was dreaming. And then, in order to sustain that central state of awareness...to not get "lost" in dreaming...to not lose lucidity...he had Carlos glance at various things/people in the dream...to touch on them briefly and then glance back at his hands to stabilize the lucidity. Carlos got better and better at sustaining lucidity amidst his lucid dreams.
Something similar can be done during daily awareness, in a manner of speaking. My attention roams quickly and easily this way and that, from one thing to another, amidst my day. Hell, I've been told I have ADD! And that's cool....nothing wrong with that. The key for me is, as frequently as I can remember, to bring my awareness back to "home base"....to here, in my core. To cultivate a sense of silent awareness, like a ball that just radiates out from a central position deep with, that's not attached to anything in particular. It floats free and detached and, because its detached, it can go anywhere. Its always right here, deep within wherever we are. Lucidity gathers momentum in that center...and it can certainly be taken with us into dreaming