Sleep and Consciousness
What Does It Feel Like?
I did a phenomenological analysis looking at similarities and differences between lucid dreaming, witnessing dreams and witnessing sleep on about 60 elite meditators. Basic things I want to bring your attention to is the feelings of separateness.. .more characteristic of witnessing dreams you're not caught up in the dream . . .in the sense that a true elder is not caught up in the day to day flow of life. Now one could make a reasonable argument that I don't know if I want to be that detached. The whole argument with Prozac maybe you read all those articles coming out Prozac may be .Have you tried it. I did my shtick with Prozac. It was fun. It was great. But I got some side effects I didn't want. one of the things people claim, is hey wait a minute I feel so detached, am I anymore in the world? And is that what I want? Is that what I not want? I mean the whole values dialogues there. In any case, that's the nature of this experience in this phenomenological analysis. State transitions more likely to be described in witnessing in sleep because there's nothing to talk about so you can only talk about coming out of it. .in the description we showed. Control is something that happens in lucid dreams. It's something that's just not relevant, in witnessing because if you're detached from something, you're not particularly interested in controlling it.