how come one cannot turn off their conscienceness?

Question

its impossible no matter what you do one cannot stop being a conscience being even when you sleep their is still conscience activity in the form of dreams one never stops thinking or observing

in other words our senses act independantly of our will? we can not stop hearing the random noises that invade our sense of hearing... we cannot turn off our selves to the external stimuli of our surrounding universe?

Answer 1

Sure you can. In sleep, you only dream during the REM phase. So by winding yourself down (either naturally or self-medication), you can go to sleep, thereby "turning off" your consciousness.

Advanced users of the brain can control their senses, thoughts, emotions -- basically turn off or greatly tone down (hibernate or on standby) -- their consciousness through meditation. They can even control their heart rate.

Answer 2

In my opinion, I think maybe because most have not followed our conscience. In some manner of degree, there is a point, where the conscience is challenged. Now it is easy to betray it, to attain whatever it is under any circumstance. But over time, the way of how you got it comes a burden. How many times to do think of something and wish you could do it over? Or maybe when you've done something to somebody and wish you could say "I'm sorry."

Or perhaps it's something that nobody wants to hear anymore.

Answer 3

My opinion:

Consciousness is bigger than your sensory activity. You are always eternal consciousness, despite the mechanisms of this body. Your body is a vehicle, with a control panel, various organs controlling function, and the brain, nervous system and hormones sending messages and regulating data.

"Conscious" is an adjective to describe a state of your brain at any given time. You may be unconscious, and that can mean in a "standby" brain state, or it may also be figuratively referring to not spiritually awakened, unknowing.

You have domain over your thoughts and your physical processes. You can turn off your awareness and control it, like a spiritual master, a yogi or Tibetan monks, who can meditate and affect their own blood pressure, brain wave activity, temperature control, etc.

You may also abandon your body spiritually, moving your consciousness elsewhere. People who do heavy drugs or alcohol are abandoning themselves. When you separate your spirit from the body like that, it harms the body by temporarily robbing it of the basic life force that keeps it going. You can also do blissful things that expand your consciousness beyond your own body but this is healthier because your consciousness expands out from the body and includes it, so that you don't harm yourself. Examples of this are meditation for spiritual ecstasy or loving another so fully and selflessly that you expand and merge with all humanity.

Your consciousness is not limited to this body or your senses. But it uses the body as a vehicle to move through this particular life and set of circumstances, to take in what it wants to absorb or reflect.

Answer 4

This is true. There is a reason behind it though. Even though we are given free will our conscience will always be there whispering to our minds of what is right and wrong - no matter how we justify our actions. The reason is because we are of God's creation and made in His likeness. He gave us the freedom to do as we choose but no matter how much you deny His existence and His desire for us to do right...He will always be in your mind, He is ultimately your conscience.

Answer 5

Ever walk into a room and the conversation suddenly stops? The room feels like something is missing. It is the same feeling you get when you view the body at a funeral. The convesation within the body has stopped. This is why we can't turn off our awareness, our brain-body conversation must continue, or we die.

Answer 6

One cannot stop thought/consciousness!!!!!!!!!!!! It is on throughout "eternity" (which has no duration, but is a moment to moment process). So, we will never switch off. BUT...there is the possibility of IGNORING the whole thing. When a thought "bud" opens and flies out...let it fly right on by. Much unnecessary suffering will cease.

Answer 7

That's "consciousness".

Presumably, it's like why you don't consciously direct the activities of your liver. Consciousness and other functions are too important to risk their being disrupted by being able to ignore them or turn them off.

As to why you can't turn off all brain activity, you'd be dead in that case.

Answer 8

President Bush can turn his consciousness (and conscience) off any time he wants to. If he can do it, you should certainly be able to.

:-)

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Answer 9

People are not conscience at all times, that's how.