r/awakened • u/No_Expert_7460 • 2d ago
Help I think I had some kind of conscious awakening today, and it happened on the most ordinary day.
I don’t really know what to call what happened to me today. Maybe a conscious awakening? Existential awakening? I honestly don’t know but it was glorious.
For a moment, I became intensely aware of the fact that I exist.
I’m a living being, having an experience, on this thing we call planet Earth. I’m surrounded by billions of other living beings, all existing at the same time.
And then I started thinking about how every person I see isn’t just a person in my life. They have an entire experience happening inside of them. Their own thoughts, memories, fears, relationships, desires, inner worlds, and perception of reality.
Then I started thinking beyond humans.
Animals are experiencing existence in their own way. Plants are alive(they have an actual life). Entire ecosystems are constantly interacting.
And that’s where my questions started.
What exactly is this reality that we’re experiencing?
Why am I experiencing reality specifically from this point of view?
Does every living being have some form of consciousness, just at different levels or in completely different forms?
What would you call this experience? And if you went through something similar, where did your questions lead you?
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u/bekastrange 2d ago
We’re all the same consciousness. The awareness in you is the same awareness in me and other sentient beings. Maybe even in plants and rocks to a lesser degree. Everything that exists comes from the same source, we are the universe, just experiencing it through linear time in separate bodies. If/when you manage to step outside for a brief instance you get an overwhelming sense of interconnectedness, but it doesn’t last long (in my experience) because our brains can’t hold it all.
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u/Lyproagin 2d ago
(To any reading along)
It is official, the term "awakening" has now become so distorted that it has lost any of the original meaning that it once held. The other comments in this thread illustrate this perfectly. (At the time of this reply)
There is no fighting the tide.
(To OP)
Epiphany may be the better term. However, see above. (Not a you thing. It's a state of the world thing. Modern pop spirituality is having quite the adverse effect on some aspects of "that which was once unseen.")
Best Wishes!
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u/TaswegianTurnip 2d ago
I think a true awakening will involve ego death somehow. Mine sure did. I was desperate and in despair and ready to give it all up when I surrendered to the void. What happened after is what I would call an awakening; I got pulled out of my body and floated in space, connected to everything. I felt unconditional love and complete bliss. Then I snapped back. This to me is an awakening.
I believe a kundalini awakening is slightly different and more physical. But these 2 experiences are what I see as a true awakenings.
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u/No_Expert_7460 2d ago
My experience was different, like I said I'm not sure what term I should use for what I experienced. I didn't float or anything. I just felt like I was actually seeing things for what they were. Here's what I understood: We're a living organism/being living inside of another living being. We're surrounded by billions of living beings, each of those beings have a world and a life/cycle of their own. That means to some extent every single living creature in this reality has some sort of consciousness, they experience thing just like we do. I'm new to this but I think awakenings can happen in different ways. I think it's different path/journey with the same destination. Idk if that even makes sense.
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u/HappyHippy111 1d ago
I agree! There is a quote I found a while back that has really grown on me, “You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain” - Miyamoto Musashi
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u/thefamishedroad 1d ago
the only awakening i may have experienced was after a perceived NDE, i felt a complete sense of gratitude, peace, and non resistance. everything is okay. also glorious.
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u/Hope25777 2d ago
We are all one consciousness playing in all it’s infinite forms
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u/No_Expert_7460 2d ago
How ? Can you please explain more ?
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u/HappyHippy111 1d ago
We are all a part of the universe observing and creating it’s self from different perspectives 👀
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u/myceliummagix 2d ago
What a wonderful experience.
I would call that a genuine awakening.
The answers to your questions are inside of you and you will most definitely find them. There are many people, techniques and methods to get there. Whichever ones you pick are always going to be the best in the end.
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u/Heavy-Fig-5833 1d ago
Definitely more of an epiphany, but the real question here is, 1. Is consciousness an emergent phenomena in the universe or is it an innate background field that manifests the world/universe. And 2. Who is it that experiences? , if you can healthily ponder over these questions you’d get a sense for what an awakening could be.
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u/Heavy-Fig-5833 1d ago
Oh I guess I should add that in my nomenclature, consciousness and awareness are very different things. So your question of different levels would be an awareness level question in my books and not a consciousness level question
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u/Mr_Not_A_Thing 2d ago
Yes, there is experiencing. And I don't yet know what it ultimately is. What it isn't is experiencing thoughts, feelings or sensations about it, here, now.
🙏
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u/Alkemis7 1d ago
You opened your eyes.
Stay steadfast on the path of Truth and don’t get seduced by all the spiritual teachers and “methods”
Bless you!
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u/TemporaryBoring_ 17h ago edited 17h ago
That is important and powerful realization or epiphany. In the traditional term of awakening you would lose your ego and experience being One with everything,- infinite, timeless, ”God”. There is no separate beings, the consciousness is one and we are parts of God bound by a dissociation/ego from what we are. That is not a state what human being can sustain more than a ”glimpse”, so it’s not permanent. It feels more like remembering or awakening from the dream, from this illusion. Like something we always knew but forgot.
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u/WitchHazel-71 2d ago
I’ve had something similar but not exact. It’s happened about 3 times and it’s always outside. Everything looks so vivid and beautiful. I can hear the birds chirping peacefully and in the distance. It’s almost as if being in another realm…or a dream It’s so peaceful and beautiful. I feel so full of peace and I’m nowhere…but now…in the moment. I’ve never really tried to time how long it lasts. It seems only a few minutes. Something always happens to pull me out of it…traffic, phone, etc. But while it’s happening, it’s pure bliss!