Some thoughts on self awareness, hopefully I have improved since trying to see ego has consciousness years ago can’t remember when, got into trouble with Moll’.

1 Self awareness. Conscious use of multiple sensory perceptions and active interaction with the environment.

2 Emotional awareness. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of emotions to be able to regulate them.

3. Everyone has their own set of emotions tied to their life experience which are dynamic, overlap, can rise, peak, fall, over different durations. The range of emotions is debatable from 80 to over 350+.

4. The ability to see yourself from a distance. Observing yourself from a distance, like watching yourself in a game or a movie, and the ability to recall that.

One interesting aspect is self-awareness in dreams.

I’ve had an ongoing situation in my dreams where I look at myself in a full-length mirror and see to my surprise that I’ve lost a lot of weight, especially when viewed from the side.

After several such episodes, waking up and realising it was just a dream, when it happens in dreams now I question myself – “Am I actually dreaming?”

In the dreams I used to conclude: “No! I’m definitely awake, this time it’s real!” but in the most recent example, I did actually work out that I was dreaming, and carried on with the rest of the dream.

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

I would say yes, dreams to some extent, floating in gravity is a strange sensation.

SCIENCE said:

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Ha!

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Awareness in dreams that’s something to consider too.

I thought of floating in gravity in dreams. Having that awareness. An inner awareness.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Awareness in dreams that’s something to consider too.

I thought of floating in gravity in dreams. Having that awareness. An inner awareness.

This one is something I wonder about.
Realising many personality types exists and that most people think completely different to you
What is obvious to you others may never even consider.
For example I find all this you and them and everyone who isn’t with us is against us is the enemy quite silly.
We are all humans and this is what counts
Do people never look at the overall greater picture of human existence and realise so much of what is held as important is actually nonsense

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Ha!

Having now done my own research on that image, I see that SCIENCE wants us to consider the pounds shillings and pence of the matter.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Some thoughts on self awareness, hopefully I have improved since trying to see ego has consciousness years ago can’t remember when, got into trouble with Moll’.

1 Self awareness. Conscious use of multiple sensory perceptions and active interaction with the environment.

2 Emotional awareness. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of emotions to be able to regulate them.

3. Everyone has their own set of emotions tied to their life experience which are dynamic, overlap, can rise, peak, fall, over different durations. The range of emotions is debatable from 80 to over 350+.

4. The ability to see yourself from a distance. Observing yourself from a distance, like watching yourself in a game or a movie, and the ability to recall that.

There is also being stuck in fight, flight, freeze, fawn and fragment. This means you are biologically unable to access your prefrontal cortex.

If you can access your prefrontal cortex you can think, reason and have self awareness.

Then there’s attachment styles of secure attachment, insecure attachment, avoidant attachment, disorganised attachment etc. If you are unable to have awareness of how you are attached to other humans, then you will have little insight into yourself and your abilities and awareness.

Cymek said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Cymek said:

Would a vivid inner world in your mind be part of self awareness.

Awareness in dreams that’s something to consider too.

I thought of floating in gravity in dreams. Having that awareness. An inner awareness.

This one is something I wonder about.
Realising many personality types exists and that most people think completely different to you
What is obvious to you others may never even consider.
For example I find all this you and them and everyone who isn’t with us is against us is the enemy quite silly.
We are all humans and this is what counts
Do people never look at the overall greater picture of human existence and realise so much of what is held as important is actually nonsense

If you are stuck in fight, flight, freeze and/or fawn you are unable to engage your prefrontal cortex and engage in rational thinking.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Some thoughts on self awareness, hopefully I have improved since trying to see ego has consciousness years ago can’t remember when, got into trouble with Moll’.

1 Self awareness. Conscious use of multiple sensory perceptions and active interaction with the environment.

2 Emotional awareness. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of emotions to be able to regulate them.

3. Everyone has their own set of emotions tied to their life experience which are dynamic, overlap, can rise, peak, fall, over different durations. The range of emotions is debatable from 80 to over 350+.

4. The ability to see yourself from a distance. Observing yourself from a distance, like watching yourself in a game or a movie, and the ability to recall that.

Theory of mind: this theory says people become aware that other people have their own, different, thoughts and feelings to you. In neurotypical people, this usually happens around 3-5 years of age. In neurodivergent people, it can take much longer, especially in boys.

It’s not exactly self-awareness, it’s more awareness of self in relation to other people.

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Some thoughts on self awareness, hopefully I have improved since trying to see ego has consciousness years ago can’t remember when, got into trouble with Moll’.

1 Self awareness. Conscious use of multiple sensory perceptions and active interaction with the environment.

2 Emotional awareness. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of emotions to be able to regulate them.

3. Everyone has their own set of emotions tied to their life experience which are dynamic, overlap, can rise, peak, fall, over different durations. The range of emotions is debatable from 80 to over 350+.

4. The ability to see yourself from a distance. Observing yourself from a distance, like watching yourself in a game or a movie, and the ability to recall that.

Theory of mind: this theory says people become aware that other people have their own, different, thoughts and feelings to you. In neurotypical people, this usually happens around 3-5 years of age. In neurodivergent people, it can take much longer, especially in boys.

It’s not exactly self-awareness, it’s more awareness of self in relation to other people.

Ok. Thanks for that.

possibly a good starting place, for thinking about it, is consider the ~180degree field of view of the external world, some of which you are in(you can see your limbs for example), now consider the feel-see for what is behind the eyes, self-aware conscious creatures might be said to inhabit the interface, they sense the interface as substantive goings on, a representational thing.

and in that is something of the origin of abstraction about stuff behind the eyes(and its relation to stuff behind the eyes of others) – meta-awareness

related – anticipating mental states of others, including desires and beliefs, interactions of, what orientates a mind, motivation, inclines feelings, thoughts, and action, and even apparently thoughtless actions.

transition said:

possibly a good starting place, for thinking about it, is consider the ~180degree field of view of the external world, some of which you are in(you can see your limbs for example), now consider the feel-see for what is behind the eyes, self-aware conscious creatures might be said to inhabit the interface, they sense the interface as substantive goings on, a representational thing.

and in that is something of the origin of abstraction about stuff behind the eyes(and its relation to stuff behind the eyes of others) – meta-awareness

related – anticipating mental states of others, including desires and beliefs, interactions of, what orientates a mind, motivation, inclines feelings, thoughts, and action, and even apparently thoughtless actions.

The eyes have it.

Bubblecar said:

One interesting aspect is self-awareness in dreams.

I’ve had an ongoing situation in my dreams where I look at myself in a full-length mirror and see to my surprise that I’ve lost a lot of weight, especially when viewed from the side.

After several such episodes, waking up and realising it was just a dream, when it happens in dreams now I question myself – “Am I actually dreaming?”

In the dreams I used to conclude: “No! I’m definitely awake, this time it’s real!” but in the most recent example, I did actually work out that I was dreaming, and carried on with the rest of the dream.

Dreams can get very complex.
I have several recurring dreams.

Being in large mansions on my own.
Landscapes with weird lightning.
Being in a university environment.

Book by Vera Helleman – Encyclopedia of emotions: Using your feelings as a navigation system towards a happy life

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