Notice Your Awareness

Transcript

Let’s talk about noticing your attention.

So right now in this moment you might be hearing, seeing, smelling. You might be noticing the colors, noticing the sounds around you. Perhaps some sounds that had slipped into the subconscious. You weren’t fully aware of the sounds around you, in the background and up the street.

Animals, dogs barking or birds or other things. The sound of the wind in the trees. All of these things are appearing within your mind and conciousness. All of these things happening in that space that allows things to exist.

All are a part of your mind or are fluctuations of the mind. Things going on, things changing, different elements like waves on top of an ocean.

What if for a moment you attempted to be aware of your own intention. Who is it that sees? Who is it that hears? What is the quality of that attention of the mindfulness that consciousness that is within you?

Always perceiving.

I have attempted to explore this in my dreams so sometimes I even have success with it.

I set a goal to meditate in my dreams. I have some dream, I remember once I was in a dream sitting in high school talking to friends and in that moment I start to realize this isn’t exactly real.

I am actually asleep and imagining this whole thing. I turn my attention inwards and start to notice my own attention. Everything just slips away.

There is a technique from Lucid Dreaming: Plain and Simple where Robert Waggoner describes you notice the dream slipping away and you can reach out and hold on to something. Maintain your grip and focus on the sensation of holding onto things.

I learned you don’t need to hold onto a physical element like a hand rail, you can hold onto consciousness itself. Maintain your awareness, notice your awareness. The reflexive awareness. Being aware that you are aware.

Feelings might slip away and a new dream might begin but that consciousness things still remain present and constant throughout the whole thing. What is it like to be conscious? What is it like to be aware? Mindful? Alive? Noticing?