Hi gang.
We're gonna talk about levels of awareness under states of consciousness.
Levels of awareness is about how much attention you're giving to something.
And the first two levels of awareness which everyone should be familiar with is the high
level and lower level.
Now a high level of awareness is when you are paying a lot of attention to something,
when you are focusing very intensely on something.
You notice a lot of detail.
You notice a lot of what is happening with what you're interested in.
However, you do not notice a lot of other things happening around you, all the stuff
that is irrelevant to the key thing.
High levels of awareness, high levels of attention - we cannot sustain this for a long period
of time because it is exhausting.
Which is good because spend most of our day in lower levels of awareness, where we may
be daydreaming, we may be doing something that we do out of habit, or - like the gentleman
in the picture - we do more than one thing at a time.
So lower level of awareness is when you're paying a little bit of attention to multiple
things.
Not as exhausting as the high level of awareness.
So if you have ever been watching TV and working on your computer and eating all at the same
time, you are in a lower level of awareness because there's a lot of things that you're
doing that you can do out of habit and that doesn't require a lot of the high, intense
focus or attention.
Daydreaming would be considered a lower level of awareness because you're pretty much only
aware of what you're thinking in your head.
You might have some acknowledgement of what's happening around you, but for the most part
you're limited to just being aware[ness] of what is happening in your head, in your thinking.
Now other levels of awareness.
We have an altered level of awareness.
That really means you're not in your normal state.
For whatever reason, the picture there with the dizzy head - you could feel dizzy because
of a medical condition, such as vertigo or hypoxia.
You could feel dizzy because of medication.
You just took a medication and it's making you dizzy.
You could be dizzy because you hurt your head and have a concussion.
You could be dizzy because you haven't slept enough.
You could be dizzy because you have taken a substance that you're not supposed to be
taking, such as perhaps drinking too much alcohol or ingesting cocaine.
But you're not in your normal attention capabilities.
Now subconscious awareness - this is when you're thinking but you're not aware that
you're thinking.
So you're thinking below the level of conscious awareness.
It's similar to taking an idea, tossing it the back of your mind, mulling it over even
though you don't know you're mulling it over.
That's why there's a picture of the thinking with the brain in it.
You're thinking even though you don't know you're thinking about it.
If anyone in here has ever taken a test and you've skipped a question, you read it.
"I have no idea what this answer is," and then you decide to go on to other questions.
When you come back and look at the test question that you didn't know the answer to, usually
you have that "Oh, I know the answer" moment because of subconscious awareness.
You were thinking about the question that you didn't know the answer to even though
you weren't consciously aware that you were thinking about the question that you needed
to know the answer to.
And then the last level of awareness is no awareness.
You have no connection to the internal.
You have no connection to the external.
This one is a particularly controversial topic because it's up for debate whether or not
people in comas have any awareness.
It's up for debate whether or not during surgery you have any awareness.
During sleep, do you have any awareness?
So, that one, understand, no connection to the internal and no connection to the external.
When it actually exists is gonna depend on who you ask.
Other than that, the levels of awareness - high, lower, altered, subconscious awareness, and
no awareness - all about the attention, where it's going, where it's being focused.
So, thank you.
Bye bye.
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