“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”
~ Michel de Montaigne, Essays 1580
I think that being awake doesn't require a physical consciousness. It requires brain activity and ongoing thoughts. This means that you can be asleep, but also awake. I guess... then, it is possible to be physically awake, but mentally asleep. I think I have done this, maybe once, before. I was sitting in a drum circle around a fire in the forest, mesmerized by the flames. While I was staring at it, I had no thoughts running through my mind. I felt completely at peace with everything. The only thing in existance was the flame, and the sound of the drums that it seemed to be in synch with. The feeling in my phsycial body seemed to reflect my brain. I felt weightless, like I was floating in a pool. It might have been a flash of Nirvana, but I don't think I gained any insight or knowledge.
When I am awake, I feel unsure of what is happening around me, life is completely out of my control. In the time that I turned my brain off, I couldn't care less about what had, was, is going to happen. We are probably all wrong about the idea of being awake. We are probably all asleep right now in a big dream just waiting to be woken up to realise that nothing really is happening.
On another note, Zombies have not yet reached a state of Nirvana since they still crave brains for food. I beleive that once they have left their bodies, they will reach that state, since they no longer have to worry about the the state of their physical bodies' needs.
If awake=nirvana then no one is actually awake... hmm....
Buddha described nirvāna as the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger, and other afflicting states (kilesas). -Wikipedia
This song seems to float in and out of an awake state.
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