Transitional Sleep Part 1

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Transitional Sleep Part 1

The transitional sleep state is the bridge between, or the twilight area of transition spanning, the two states of mind below:
- conscious, when you are wide-awake you are;
- unconscious, when you are asleep.
By comparing transitional sleep, first with the waking consciousness and then with natural sleep, its true nature will be perceived. During our waking state, the conscious mind is busy evaluating, analyzing, and rationalizing thoughts and attitudes as well as forming opinions of the action and emotional stimuli that surround us.
Noises are disturbing to most of us during the waking state, and it is difficult to read or concentrate with the radio blaring, or when traffic noise interrupts our train of thought.
The conscious mind is the censor, and it attempts to evaluate each impression before its approval is given. Often when trying to think out a particular problem, stray thoughts and irrelevant ideas flit in and out of our minds and confuse our thinking, because we are unable to concentrate upon more than one thing at a time. Our optimum conscious awareness would then be the whole of our attention focused on any one thing at any one time, to the complete exclusion of all noises or other stimuli.
During natural sleep the conscious mind, or censor, has receded; it is unconscious and not attempting to analyze. The subconscious, during natural sleep, slows down its operation to the minimum requirements of the relaxed body. While in the state of normal sleep (unconscious ), all information is recorded, but this information will not be available to the consciousness when one is awake because it was recorded below the level of subconscious perception. It is easier to control subconscious perception, when we understand what occurs in the human mind as the waking consciousness blends into natural unconscious sleep. First, the conscious mind begins to recede from its alert position.
As the body relaxes and tensions diminish, the conscious mind relaxes still further, until the attention is temporarily in abeyance; it is not focusing on nor thinking of any particular thing. This is the state between natural sleep and the waking state, the transitional-sleep state. At this point the conscious mind is submerging in preparation for rest, and the subconscious is advancing to take full responsibility of the body during the hours of sleep.
The two minds for this short period of time are in closer accord than at any other time. They might be likened to ships that pass in the night, in sight of each other briefly, then moving on, each following its own path and performing its own task. It is this temporary though close mergence of the two minds of man that makes transitional sleep the powerful medium it is.

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