| The dream world is one that is very strange and | | | | These are examples of your consciousness shifting. |
| scary for many people. There have been books, | | | | We do it so effortlessly that we barely recognize |
| movies and songs made about dreams. We go to | | | | when we do. We do not fear our consciousness |
| sleep and all of a sudden we are in this world that is | | | | leaving and never coming back in these instances |
| timeless and void of anything we know of reality. As | | | | because it is normal. Just as these are shifts in |
| humans we have long been aware that we are | | | | consciousness, so is dreaming. For many of us we |
| conscious. Meaning that we are aware of self or at | | | | actually mistrust our dream state. We fear it. In |
| least what we view as our self in the waking world. | | | | reality our sleep state is simply another part of our |
| What if our consciousness changes at different times | | | | entire being. Not just the physical self. In sleep our |
| and we are not aware that it is doing so? What is | | | | consciousness is no longer inhibited by our ego. Our |
| consciousness? | | | | consciousness exits our physical body and does all |
| This question has been on the mind of man for | | | | kind of extra ordinary things. That will be the subject |
| centuries. So what is consciousness? Looking up the | | | | of another article. |
| term on these are a few of the definitions of | | | | However, in the dream state we tap into the |
| consciousness that come up. | | | | universal consciousness. We become more |
| "In common parlance, consciousness sometimes also | | | | knowledgeable. Have you ever gotten a solution to a |
| denotes being awake and responsive to the | | | | problem or heard of someone that has, from a |
| environment, in contrast to being asleep or in a | | | | dream? In these instances you are getting |
| coma." | | | | knowledge from your higher self and/or from your |
| "The analytical, materially-based, rational half of our | | | | spiritual guides. When you are going to sleep you can |
| consciousness. The part of our mind that is at work | | | | suggest problems that you would like to solve. You |
| while we balance our checkbooks, theorize, | | | | can ask a question and often times it can be |
| communicate, and perform other acts related to the | | | | answered in your dreams. |
| physical world." | | | | Unfortunately for many of us our dreams are a |
| "The rational, subjective, linear oriented portion of our | | | | jumbled mess. They don't make sense. This is |
| awareness. Located roughly in the brain's cerebral | | | | because our consciousness is so vast that many |
| cortex." | | | | things that we have access to while on our |
| The majority of the definitions correspond to our | | | | consciousness travels do not translate into our |
| waking state as the only part that consciousness | | | | objective reality. What we remember of our dreams |
| resides. If our waking self is our conscious self, then | | | | is really a translation that our physical brain has |
| what do we become when we sleep? I would say | | | | interpreted for us. Our physical brain is simply putting |
| that the vast majority of people will agree with | | | | our dream state in a "language" we can understand, |
| those definitions. We only identify ourselves by our | | | | so to speak. In our dream state we are no longer |
| ego state when we are awake. However, to put this | | | | bound by the laws of our physical reality. The illusion |
| limitation on our consciousness is ultimately limiting | | | | of time slips away while we are asleep. Have you |
| who we are as a person and our place in the vast | | | | ever dreamed that events happened over a period |
| storehouse of knowledge in the universe. | | | | of hours or days and you have only been asleep for |
| When we are asleep, we are more alive and | | | | a few minutes our hours? |
| knowledgeable than in our waking state. Our | | | | My friend, make no mistake. All that I have written |
| consciousness does not go away it simply changes | | | | you already know. I am simply a conduit for your |
| states. Our consciousness changes states so | | | | higher self to connect with you. It is time that you |
| frequently and effortlessly that we do not recognize | | | | wake up to the knowledge of who you are. As |
| when it does and the extent that it changes. | | | | stated before you are far more knowledgeable and |
| Consciousness changes even when we are awake! | | | | alive when you are asleep than you ever will be while |
| For example, have you ever caught yourself | | | | awake and in objective reality. It is time for all of us |
| daydreaming? Have you ever driven somewhere and | | | | to connect to the universal mind consciously and tap |
| realized that you have made it to your destination | | | | into the knowledge that is ours. You know this. You |
| but not remember what you saw or what happened | | | | can intuit this. Now just allow yourself to flow with |
| from the start of the trip to the end? You ever read | | | | this. |
| a book and then have to go back over what you | | | | By the way, if you want to know what it is like |
| read because you did not remember the text and | | | | when you die then simply explore your dream state. |
| words? Ever talk to someone and realize that they | | | | But again, I know you already know that, you just |
| are trying to get your attention back to the | | | | didn't realize that you know. |
| conversation? | | | | Are you a brave soul? |