Consciousness

[Ahriman]

When we are conscious of one thing, we are not conscious of a whole range of other things.  We can, however, direct our focus to one thing after another.  In fact we usually cannot maintain our focus on any one thing for all that long without habituating to it, with the consequence that our consciousness wanders off anyway.

Waking as a state is one thing, alertness is another, focus another, and self-consciousness yet another.  Even when we are dreaming, we experience a certain reduced state of consciousness which lacks self-consciousness and our usual focus.

Consciousness is complicated because it has so many aspects and is so variable.

It's all the same stuff....