Listening to many people say ‘I am awake’ over the last 5+ years I have realised that a majority of people are confused. There is a difference being Spiritually Aware vs Awake.
Read more: Spiritually Aware vs Awake. What is the difference?‘I know what they are doing, I am (spiritually) awake!’
‘I can sense energy, I am (spiritually) awake!’
Dreaming you are Spiritually Awake
No, you are not awake, you are AWARE. You are aware of these things, you can sense, them recognise them, notice them, but that does not mean you are ‘awake’.
In spiritual terms this is a huge gap that the ‘non-awake’ will confuse. Being aware of something doesn’t mean you are spiritually awake. They are two different ‘things’.
It is a similar confusion that people get through being lucid in a dream. People confuse ‘dreaming about being lucid’ for actually ‘being lucid’. You can read about this here for further understanding of the similarities:
Self-Awareness is the First step
Just like becoming lucid in a dream, awareness is GOOD. You cannot awaken until you start to become aware. However, it is not just any type of awareness, self-awareness is the key to spiritual awakening. Why self-awareness? That is because it is YOU that is awakening to YOU. Awakening is not to awaken to anything outside of yourself. You can read more about this here:
Yes, we are energy, however being aware of energy, being able to feel it, move it doesn’t mean we are awake. Being awake happens a level on consciousness. It is not about being mentally aware of something, it is about being that awareness itself. Higher awareness is required to reach a higher state of consciousness.
The similarity of lucid dreaming, being ‘awake in a dream’ is highly similar to being ‘awake in life’. So much so that I find it the perfect example to help people to understand who are not yet awake in life, but have experienced being lucid in a dream.
So I recommend viewing the linked articles to get an idea of what being aware vs being awake in life is like.
