A Seamless Unity of Consciousness

**Coglapse** · 08-07-2011 07:06 AM

Random thought: what if by becoming lucid and meditating for one's entire life, one could train themselves to never lose consciousness.

Knowing what I know about spirituality, and just my own intuition, I think it may be possible. I wonder what would have to happen..

(THC IN ME)

**Matte87** · 08-07-2011 11:45 AM

Hmm, shouldn't that be boring though? I mean, life is all about experiences. So meditating and being in a void, doing absolutely nothing all life, would really suck.

**Erii** · 08-07-2011 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Matte87

Hmm, shouldn't that be boring though? I mean, life is all about experiences. So meditating and being in a void, doing absolutely nothing all life, would really suck.

I think he means just living in the moment, that's sort of like a void itself. Just being conscious of here and now, aware of what's happening...that's how i perceived it.

**Coglapse** · 08-07-2011 02:10 PM

Who says it has to be a void? Maybe you can be fully conscious at all times, but still have a colorful personality as well as awesome dreams. Just speculating though.

**ludr** · 08-07-2011 06:32 PM

We already do so by practicing ADA.

**opalwolf** · 08-07-2011 07:33 PM

I don't know about "never losing consciousness".. but you should look up "dream yoga", and also.. some monks thought that sleeping at night was a waste of time and they just meditated all night. read it in that one "be here now" book. its a good read.

**Sheddler** · 08-07-2011 10:11 PM

Sleep is absolutely necessary, from what I understand it. You can't go ten days without sleep, although, meditating may extend this time, or serve as a replacement for sleep. I, on the other hand, love sleeping. I'm just fine with it.

**Coglapse** · 08-08-2011 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by Sheddler

Sleep is absolutely necessary, from what I understand it. You can't go ten days without sleep, although, meditating may extend this time, or serve as a replacement for sleep. I, on the other hand, love sleeping. I'm just fine with it.

i'm not really into spirituality like I used to be. A lot of it is crap. But I believe that the meditative states that mystics talk about are reachable in some sense. One thing that I think is possible is to be in deep sleep but also be conscious at the same time. It seems like they are mutually exclusive, but I don't think so.

This guy claims to be able to teach this: http://www.swamij.com/cd-sabbatical.htm

**ludr** · 08-08-2011 05:44 AM

Wow! When you do a LD you are not losing consciousness. However there are always NREM periods, so, ya know, you can't always keep consciousness.

I'm sure though that if you can get yourself stuck in the hypnagogic state it will be a bit between waking and asleep and you can stay there indefinitely without the need to sleep.