--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dude-ji! I was just thinking about the whole particle/wave > perception alternation, though I didn't carry it into group dynamics > as you have. Yummy stuff! > > On another topic, I've been noticing some interesting things around > sleep. My first experience about a year ago (?) on getting to sleep > was to consciously blank my mind of thought, and fatigue would take > over, I'd slip on the banana peel, and down for the count. After > several months I became too interested or I could say in Love with > the active part of my mind, and it didn't seem fair to annihilate it > willfully just to go to sleep, but I *had* to go to sleep. So I'd > surf on my mantra for hours dipping into dreamland and back out. But > this wasn't satisfying because I wasn't really in a clean state of > mind- kinda meditating and kinda thinking and kinda dreaming and > kinda sleeping. Not much to be gained from the experience. So, next > I saw that I could isolate my mind into at least two sections, one > logical thinkiing piece which would do its own thing, and my > dinosaur mind, watching autonomous nervous system stuff like > regulating breath and heart beat, kidney and liver function, blood > flow, neurotransmitter activity and stuff like that. Once I saw each > part as a clear entity, it was then just a matter of turning my > attention to the dinosaur mind, and dropping into sleep. I no longer > had to negate the active logical mind, just tweaking my attention so > that it would no longer get drawn in that direction, like any other > control of the senses, though I am not sure which subtle sense is > involved, feels like touch and sight combined. Anyway, on with the > show! :-) >
Yes! For me, it's being aware of different states of awareness going on simultaneously in different parts of the brain (or elsewhere). For me, "sleep" is ongoing in the back parts of the brain, while "waking" is in the front, and an indescribable function --"transcendence," say -- goes on in a "third lobe" above the skull. So, like you, if I want to bring "sleep" into predominance, I shift my attention towards the place where it's already going on: for me, towards the back of the head. And then there are the other brains -- heart, solar-plexus, belly and so on :-)
