C. Sleep — I.School

I.School

Objective: Sleeping/ Consciousness

To Define Consciousness as: An awareness of ones self and environment.
To Understand 4 Levels of Consciousness:

-Conscious; Your most awakedness.

-PreConscious; Stuff you don’t really think about still but do, like driving, or drooling.

-Subconscious; The weird stuff we do that comes from the psyche. (The fun stuff!)

-UnConscious; Let’s just call this one sleep.

To become more aware. (See Notes)

Notes

Unfortunately, for some, this awareness could be a real bummer. There is a reason why so many people (myself included) often opt-out with mind-numbing tasks to avoid painful realities. I pledge, in I.School to be more aware, more of the time.

Procedure

This is entirely up to you.
If you are reading this, I assume you are somewhat conscious.
If you want, ask yourself “On a scale from 1-10..what is my awareness?”
Personally, I find it helpful in most areas of my life to become more aware, as difficult as it is. Some techniques I picked up along the way are:
1. Taking conscious breaths throughout the day, say while breathing, is a good start. Again, don’t do much, simply be aware, or not. (See #1)
2. H.A.L.T.! If you have an altered level of pre-consciousness that potentially could impair judgment leading to (avoidable) drama, pause. Pause if you are- hungry, angry, lonely or tired. Cheesy, I know, but memorable.
3. Not much to “do” when sleeping, but the dreams‽ Ah, my specialty! If you want you could write down dreams. For “fun,” to become more aware of your mood and state of mind as soon as you wake.

Simply being aware could help pause when conversing with others, for example.