consider the dream
you awake and you see it - as it were from
the outside
the post-dream (woken awareness) is of -
is now (known to be of) a different kind to
the dream state
it is not the experience of dreaming -
(i.e. - the content of the dreaming) that
distinguishes itself from the non-dream
state - or visa versa
it is rather that the dream state has become -
the object of the non-dream state
this we might say is not so much a choice of
consciousness
more - an action of consciousness
consciousness distinguishes its states
and so a question
we speak of consciousness as an awareness
but there is functioning beneath this awareness
there must be for it's appearance - existence
and so consciousness
awareness - states of consciousness - so called -
functions of consciousness
and as to the nature of consciousness itself
rather than it's functions (states of awareness)
what can we say?
it is - behind the screen
(plenty of ground for the imagination)
but literally unknowable
