Asleep, or...Awake? Dead, or...Alive?

THOSE are the questions... 

but you've got to ASK 'EM! 

The main reason neither of those questions are EVER asked by the great majority of humans, is because, to them, it is SELF-EVIDENT: "Of course I am alive and awake!" But, is it? 

The only people who are even interested in those questions - and think about them, talk about them, experiment with then - are those who have already suspected they might NOT BE alive or awake, and have realized it is NOT self-evident at all! Just because one finds oneself in a well-lit room, computer screen turned on, sitting in a chair staring at moving words across the screen... that is NOT proof of life or being awake, certainly not in the sense conveyed by those terms to those who are already "in the know."

This is why one must first discover the need to ASK the questions - in spoken words if necessary, or at least thoughts, and, many times per day, if not each hour, and by all means counted - and then, once that's achieved (in a day or two or three...), to ramp it up, so that one only has to FEEL the questions (which is felt as a certain kind of "un-easiness"), and then later, once that's achieved (in a week or two or three...), ramp it up even more, so that one only has to SENSE that something is seriously "amiss" right now... like a bad smell, or a prickly itch, or a thing forgotten! and then instantly SNAP OUT OF IT!

This is called 

Waking Oneself Up, Coming To, Being Alive.

And as Martha would say, "That's a very good thing."