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waking up while awake?

yuriythebestyuriythebest Veteran
in Buddhism Basics
Right- I wonder if there is a word for this - this has happened to me many times - when I suddenly "wake up" while already awake - that is, I suddenly get this clarity, this sense of presence, if you will, like "wow, I'm really here" where as previously you were just cruising along on autopilot

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  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Does your vision become clearer?
  • yuriythebestyuriythebest Veteran
    Jeffrey said:

    Does your vision become clearer?

    not so much vision, as the perception of "being present" - the mental state of going off "auto pilot" and waking up

  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited January 2014
    It might be a nyam. Those nyams are related to perceiving reality as open, clear, and sensitive. They are not the true realization, but they appear as experiences. Many nyams are pleasurable or interesting.

    I have only twice had one and it didn't come back!!
  • howhow Veteran Veteran
    @yuriythebest
    I think your "waking up" from auto pilot, was a pretty complete description.
    It demonstrates the amount of control that of our own delusive conditioning has over us, that reality visits so infrequently.
  • anatamananataman Who needs a title? Where am I? Veteran
    I call it bringing the mind home!

    image

    As Thich Nhat Hanh put it
  • misterCopemisterCope PA, USA Veteran
    I just read something very similar from a Facebook friend -- he wrote that his one-year-old son dropped a toy and said "uh-oh" and he was struck, "slammed" is the word he used, by this intense realization of life. He had trouble describing it other than saying it felt like he had suddenly woken up.
  • betaboybetaboy Veteran
    yuriythebest said:

    Right- I wonder if there is a word for this - this has happened to me many times - when I suddenly "wake up" while already awake - that is, I suddenly get this clarity, this sense of presence, if you will, like "wow, I'm really here" where as previously you were just cruising along on autopilot

    Read Ouspensky. You will understand it better.
  • anatamananataman Who needs a title? Where am I? Veteran
    betaboy said:

    yuriythebest said:

    Right- I wonder if there is a word for this - this has happened to me many times - when I suddenly "wake up" while already awake - that is, I suddenly get this clarity, this sense of presence, if you will, like "wow, I'm really here" where as previously you were just cruising along on autopilot

    Read Ouspensky. You will understand it better.
    Who? And what?

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