Hey Steve,
I'm unable to watch the video right now but wonder if you'd provide some context for me so I might comment.
Do you have any personal experience with the title, "the moment between wakefulness and sleeping?"
I am speaking with someone on another forum about sleep paralysis.
Are you familiar?
Eric the video is only about two minutes long. Have I had experience with the moment between waking and sleeping? Yes, but quite frankly, I honestly believe you are the one to speak on such matters. My experiences are limited and I have related them in the past here on the portal. When I heard Sadh Guru talk about this I thought of you. I have had more experiences with being aware of dreams while meditating. It is an interesting experience, because you begin to recognize through meditation that dreams can be conscious. I suppose you would say that this kind of turns the subject around here. And SadhGuru did not mention it, in this short video. But instead of being conscious of sleeping, we also can be conscious of dreams during meditation, when the subconscious is more active as we are exposed to different layers of consciousness in meditation.
Sleep paralysis is something I have not experienced since childhood. Like you, I may have had some experience with studying states of consciousness in a past life. Because as a child I had some nightmares and sleep paralysis. I was stressed out about it and remember have a conversation with my lower self. I told myself before I went to sleep 😴 that if I would have a nightmare I would remind myself that I would not be dreaming. And sure enough when I started having such dreams, I had this awareness that I did not want to slip into such dream states and this voice in my head would say; “You are only dreaming. Wake up so you do not have to have such a dream.” But you have just made me aware of something here. If I could do that at one time, why couldn’t I wake myself when even an unpleasant dream is happening. Or take it a step further; why can’t we wake ourselves up from unpleasant situations when we appear to be awake? We can by meditating more and practicing the presence when we are not able to meditate.
