Do 'you', 'think', 'you' are really awake when your not sleeping?

Question

How much of your day is spent in your head? In your thoughts, worries, fears. How much time do you spend in daydreaming,wanting this and not wanting that.
Have you noticed how your attention moves from whats really going on in and around you.
Are you always totally present in the Now?
What would you call the state of being awake and alert in the present moment, if you call all the above being awake?

Answer 1

Oh, very close to the fundamentals of 'life' and 'self-awareness'.
Very true, what you say, really meaning to be awake, is to remain focused at the place and situation, and then , if needed plan about future or analyse the past, STILL maintaining the awareness of the present, especially the fact that life is happening to us in the present moment !

Answer 2

No. Most of the time I'm on auto-pilot going about mindless activities. Or I'm daydreaming, or half-dreamy pondering the past or future. Once in a while for a few moments I am truly awake, aware, alert and alive in present time.

Answer 3

Too much of wakefuness can be metamorphic and dangerous for the sense of reality. The world of reality is only a world of proportionate illusions arranged in front of the eye, nothing is too real in appearance, all appear to be realistic in relation to other things around.

Due to a multitude of influences, both internal and external, a mind can experience many states of awareness in a rapid succession in certain duration in time. But these subtle alterations often go unnoticed by us unless we pay special attention to observing them by some special means. We can stay lost in our thoughts and memories for example for hours without realising or being able to think what we are thinking. And then certain moods cloud all we do and think for days and weeks. We feel lively, energetic and confident in a familiar environment. We feel tense and anxious when unpredictability or a challenge is looming.

The fact is that are orientated into our physical world by our sensory perception of our surroundings. This is how we make sense of things that constitute our sense of reality. Simple changes in our feelings for example can affect our perception greatly – things can get idealised or they can look caricatured just because we have different feelings about them.

A normal state of awareness cannot be defined once and for all. It is like a sale boat upon the surface of a deep and vast ocean. It is somewhere we are able to validate our sensory input most realistically. Now, this most realistic is in my understanding relative to our immediate surroundings. If we are aware of the things and people around us as they change and interact with us we are in a good state of mindfulness. We can be over reactive or agitated but that can very easily be detected in opposition to other states like daydreaming and deep reminiscence.

In an alert state of mind we are more interested and responsive to our external world – we are sensing, watching, listening and thinking all as one activity without realising that we are doing all that in a perfect state mental co-ordination and harmony. This is really amazing!

Answer 4

I think I know what you mean. Many times I have started walking to work and then suddenly been there with no real recollection of how I got there.

I think if we do something many times our conscious mind can be seperated from our sub-conscious and we can be anywhere else at the time.

Not sure if that makes sense, but I hope it answers your question!

Answer 5

i'm not really sure sometimes, how can you be?

one's senses don't have any means to self audit all information, so if all your senses tell you one thing then you have no choice but to believe it.

to this effect i've had many extremely scary dreams where i am absolutely convinced that i'm away and fully experiencing whatever it is only to actually wake up, and then sometimes waken up again, and again!! it's terrifficly disconcerting. the inverse must (even just statistically speaking given the number of humans/brains/dreams) be given credence!

Answer 6

Awake, but not really awake. Sometimes it is the sub conscious mind telling you to go awake.

Answer 7

i don't know i think it is hard not to fall into automatic pilot when you do the same thing everyday I.E school, work. i would like to think that i give life my all but the fact is i don't well not from a monday to friday wich is a shame. i'll have to try a bit harder.

Answer 8

Some times when i'm awake i feel like im dreaming, and not really doing what i'm doing like i'm asleep. (If that makes sence) Lol

Answer 9

i believe im am aware in the average level of most people. but i think my full awareness is only present when i am in a state of heightened senses etc

Answer 10

I think I am always sleeping when I am not awake and I am always awake when I am not sleeping



*Valerie