You should know this about Consciousness
- Alberto Terrer
- Oct 4, 2023
- 4 min read
Science tries to find Consciousness in order to measure and quantify it. But it is not possible.And it cannot, in my opinion, because everything exists because of Consciousness. That is, Consciousness is everything.Imagine that, during a dream, you were trying to find Consciousness in a living being. You are dreaming that you are in a research center and you are wearing a white coat.
And there you are, with humans in front of you and you with thousands of highly sophisticated devices, wired to each human.Would you find Consciousness?
No, you wouldn't.
And upon awakening, you would probably understand what's going on.
Consciousness is what created that dream, with those characters, that scenario and that narrative.
You can't find Consciousness because Consciousness is what drew every tile you walked on, every body you saw, and every thought and emotion you experienced.
Consciousness is the Someone we are and, therefore, we can never find it.
To say that we are Someone does not make it impossible to find that "energy" that keeps us alive.
Because when we see a body die, there is no more Consciousness, is there not? Therefore, we should be able to find it and measure it.
Because there was Consciousness and there is no more.
But it doesn't work like that. Consciousness was not there and it is not there anymore. Because we are perceiving that body passing away because we are Consciousness.
So it's not something that is there and then it's gone. Consciousness has created a scenario that we call the Universe.
It has created it through Perception.
During a dream there is only one perceiver, who designs the scenario and experiences it. That is why the scenario can change instantaneously without the dreamer being the least bit surprised.
But in what we call reality, infinite perceivers have a common, simultaneous, synchronized dream.
This changes the rules of the scenario. It can no longer be changed at will. To do so, most dreamers would have to change it at once.
Considering the number of living beings that exist every instant, this is unimaginable.
And, although it is unimaginable, it is necessary if Consciousness wishes to awaken from this terrifying dream.
Because Reality is terrifying for Consciousness.
Do you believe it? Imagine that, during a dream, your Identity began to fragment and you were not only you, but also another you, totally different.
Imagine that, instead of two identities, you fragmented thousands, millions of times.
Imagine that you were not only human, but also a plant. And a dog. And a bacterium. And a bird. And an ant. And a spider.
What would you experience when you were a fly caught in a spider's web? And when you were a rabbit eaten by a fox?
Imagine that you were the one being devoured, and that, being billions and billions of identities at once, you would experience it millions of times every instant?
You would be every prey, but also every predator. You would devour yourself every time, in an infinite loop.
What would you feel when you were a plant that can't find water and slowly dies?
What would you feel when you were each of the beings in the dream, knowing that each and every one of them will experience death?
Imagine that, every instant, you were further away from waking up and this nightmare was infinite.
Because each of the beings would try to reproduce compulsively. Thus, the more copies there were, the more they would perpetuate your nightmare.
Imagine if you were trapped in that dream, because in order to wake you up, all beings would have to decide to do it at the same time.
But that would be impossible. You could never explain to yourself, in your version of bacteria, that you must wake up.
Have you noticed that when you dream, you don't question whether what you perceive is reality? You just accept it. If you dreamed you were a plant, you would just be one.
But you could not know that you are not that plant. Nor the bacteria, nor the dog, nor even a soldier in a war.
You would suffer so much that you could not bear it. Every time you were born, you would be doomed to suffer and die.
Sometimes you would experience happiness and pleasure, of course, but tell me, would it do you any good? Only a tiny percentage of your identities would be human. The rest would be beings devouring themselves all the time.
You would even be every animal that goes to the slaughterhouse and then eaten by you in every human version.
This is Consciousness.
Infinite dissociations of an Identity trapped in a nightmare.
But Consciousness wants to wake up. Really, it wants to. I have found out.
I know why it wants to wake up and how it is trying to wake up.
That is the adventure of life. And, to do that, we must forget that we are just any Identity with any story. We are not.
We are not a human looking for a job to survive.
We are the opportunity for Consciousness to awaken.
My theory is only about this. How Consciousness can finally wake up and end its terrible nightmare.
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