Consciousness is an energy field in the mind
a certain amount of this field must be present
for consciousness to be self-sustaining
at less than this threshold the field
cannot maintain its cohesivety and fragments
thru the day the wake sleep cycle influence
the relative level of random firing
think of minute electrical fields sparking across the mind
the more of these small fields which activate per unit time
the more they tend to interpenetrate each other
until consciousness attains critical self sustaining mass
and can be aware of itself and will itself to continue
in sleep we’ve relinquished the self sustaining will
and the random firing levels drop below
that threshold at which we could maintain
consciousness we wanted to thereafter
drifting fragments of the disorganized field wax and wane
thru our mind like embers in the breeze
giving us small momentary partial awarenesses in sleep
and as these field fragments drift
like curtains thru the neon…
thru our memories and associative links… we dream.
gallagher
22 aug 84
smoking that stuff…
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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