You can see someone fall off a tree and perceive it as sad, nerve wrecking, funny, or exciting, you can perceive a thought coming into your consciousness, or an emotion you feel; within your consciousness that thought or emotion is able to be perceived, your consciousness is house and sponge for both internal and external stimuli, the placeholder your mind, state of being, and self-awareness. But what exactly is that awareness? How do you use your consciousness to perceive anything, for without your self awareness, how are you any different from an tree in terms of your perceptive abilities? A tree is there, it is alive, right, but it has no brain, but then, what does a brain, or rather, a mind..do that enables you to distinguish yourself from everything else, what causes you to naturally be able to understand that you are you, that individuals are individuals, and the world at large is in fact an entire world and not just what you see or hear?
Awareness, more specifically self-awareness is you, it is the ability to say I am, as Descartes discovered. Because you are self-aware and you can think and perceive, you are..but why? and how is this done.
In order to understand awareness and self awareness one must first understand the concept of multiple awareness. The only way you can be aware of anything, is to not be aware of something else as a human being, for if you were aware of everything, you no longer have a perception or self awareness because you would have lost your ability to be subjective. This is because as a human being you can perceive things, including yourself, so in order to have a full perception of your self, you would have to be able to recognize that you are in fact yourself, but if a human being was able to perceive himself as both himself, and someone else, he would no longer have self awareness, it becomes a paradox. This does not mean that a human being cannot perceive himself as more than just that, for it is possible to annihilate the ego and achieve a state a clarity and connection to existence itself for beyond your own realm of individual consciousness and perception, to lose your individuality, note, this is not the perception of everything,although it is a broader perception.. . so it is possible to have a consciousness and perception, without self awareness, now that that has been established it is safe to say that consciousness, perception and self awareness are three completely different things that often intersect and complement each other.
So self-awareness then would have to be within your consciousness, for without it, you cannot use the tool of perception to achieve self-awareness, your perception is a necessary article for self-awareness, for without logic, emotions, and sensuality, you have nothing to become self aware with. So your mind then, perceives that it is a mind, and understands that it is a mind. But your mind does this constantly, you change, you see different things, you hear different sounds and you have different thoughts so how does this one aspect of you stay the same? Even if you forget everything you know and space out, and you can still be self-aware. So your mind is not the you, that you perceive in order to comprehend that you are you, for even without a single thought in your mind, you can still be self aware. Using no effort at all in your conscious mind you can maintain your self-awareness. So you are perceiving something outside of your mind that you inherently distinguish as yourself. This is most likely because that thing outside your mind is you, going beyond the body, for even in a dream you can be self aware.In a dream you can either merely experience the dream, or become lucid, and experience yourself inside of the dream; your self-awareness has nothing to do with your body or the sight of your body, your five senses, your thoughts, and your consciousness.
My conclusion on this aspect of self-awareness is that your perception is a window and a mirror, it can see inside your consciousness, and the outside world.You are then one step behind your consciousness, and are being perceived by your internal perception of the individual consciousness of yourself, by 'looking' into the reflection of yourself in the dual sided mirror of the eyes (window), of your perception of the external worlds reflection of you as you, by seeing into both the external world, and the internal world at the same time, with the ability to perceive in multiple directions as different perspectives inside the same larger perception, that your perception, along with your ability to subconsciously and consciously reason, you are able to deduce that the 'invisible bridge' between the you outside your mind (the energy the gives life you consciousness, e.i, soul), the you outside your perception( the you other people see), and the you inside your mind ('the voice of your thoughts'), and the you the senses and feels (your senses and emotions) and the you that effects the outside world ( your will), as you.Between these five points there are series of mirrors and doors that all line up with each other in fourth dimensional space, enabling each layer of consciousness and perception to exist in unison separately on higher and lower spaces and planes 'across' from each other. There are countless other mirrors and doors that establish those said mirrors and doors before them. Through all the layers and connections, this does form the invisible bridge, the reason I call this the invisible bridge is because there is theoretically no space for it to connection, but that is because it would be 4D, and so moving through 3 dimensional reflections ( reflections with depth).
The five pointed star is then, theoretically, your self awareness.
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