What is common between the dream and waking...oh, and sleeping states?

[VagalTone]

We usually discuss a lot about dreamsigns, oddities, gravity, things that only happen in dreams. That´s fine, that´s perhaps the basis of modern lucid dreaming approaches. From that perspective, lucid dreaming is an extraordinary psychological and physiological feat. But i will propose that our ancient cultures did approach lucid dreaming in a different way -they highlighted the common denominator between all possible human experiences. Of course that would be something truly simple and basic, perhaps something so obvious that we miss all the time, like our own eyelashes. That must be our own cognizance, the pre-conceptual awareness, the lucid and pristine knowing that you experience for a brief second everytime you wake up, or get so curious and open about something like a child inside a temple, or your thoughts seem to disappear by some reason. In sum, i suggest that one doesn´t need critical thinking skills, or discriminating capacities, to become lucid. I think one only needs to recognize this always fresh, cognizant aspect of our minds which are indivisible from any experience, although we might believe that it is absent in dreaming, or in deep sleep. Next time you are dreaming try to recognize this same sense of aliveness, of raw existence, and report what happens. The best way to do that is falling asleep in that recognition, and the best way to do that is to recognize during the day - short moments, many times - our primordial, pristine nature of mind. Edit: if someone is confused about what i'm saying, i can help a little bit, but this is not something to think too much about, quite the opposite