Awake person

This is not to say that there is some fixed and learnable way that an awake person acts. Indeed a more awake person would be flexible and less predictable than someone in consensus trance, although the differences are often rather subtle. By studying the behavior of the teacher in the context of observing and remembering yourself, however, you see new possibilities in situations other than those that flow mechanically from the machinations of your false personality. This gives you an opportunity to further study your personality and to pick up a certain feel for flexible, more aware functioning. 

An awake person is fiilly embodied. That is, he resides completely in his body. He is not estranged from it he doesn t ignore it. He has learned to listen to his body, to honor it. He accepts his body as it is, knowing that it needn t be perfect in order for him to befriend it. He is attuned to his body, knowing what it needs and seeking to provide it. 

An awake person is also aware. Her mind is quiet yet alert, ready to go to work when called upon but willing to stay in the background when the thinking mind is not required. She observes herself and all that is before her, unafraid, not needing to cling to any part of reality nor to push it away, simply allowing it to be as it is. She can then decide whether to take action and choose the action that seems most effective. 

An awake person has a heart that is open and engaged. He no longer feels a need to close his heart or shrink away to protect himself. When a feeling arises, he is aware of it and welcomes it. He neither suppresses his negative emotions nor fans them, for he knows that both reactions only keep such feelings alive. Instead, he allows every negative emotion to rise within him, have its life, and then pass away. 

An awake person has tended to her mind and heart, and has consciously chosen the path of wisdom. She has created within herself the capacities for generosity, compassion, forgiveness, courage, love. 

IV. Diagnosis is based on the finding of characteristic muscle spasms In an awake person with a wound and an inadequate immunization history. Strychnine poisoning (see p 348) produces identical muscle spasms and should be considered in the differential diagnosis. Other considerations include hypocalcemia and dys-tonic reactions. 

A W Alive and well A OX4 Awake and oriented to person, place, time, and... 

AAOX3 Awake and orientated to time, place, and person AP Anteroposterior... 

Methamphetamine was widely used by soldiers in World War II because its potent stimulant effects kept them awake and alert for longer periods of time and increased their physical endurance. One infamous user of methamphetamine during wartime was one of the most evil men of the twentieth century—Adolf Hitler. Hitler started receiving daily injections of methamphetamine from his personal physician Dr. T. Morrell in 1942, and it was reported he could not function without his daily doses. Hitler also took many other drugs (perhaps over two dozen), including Cola-Dalmann tablets that contained caffeine. Hitler also dispensed methamphetamine to his troops so they could fight for days on end without sleep or food and outlast the endurance of enemy troops. 

PCP and ketamine are dissociative anesthetics. They can induce analgesia without loss of consciousness. The individual appears awake but will not remember the experience, and vital signs such as respiration and heart rate are not impaired. The drugs distort perceptions of sight and sound, and produce feelings of detachment and dissociation from the environment and self. Persons abusing PCP exhibit very bizarre behavior and may become violent. 

There are also some cases when a doctor s prescription is needed to obtain a stimulant in order to keep the person awake. Such cases include people with narcolepsy, who are extremely sleepy much of the day, and people who have jobs that require prolonged periods of wakefulness, such as soldiers in the military, long-haul truck drivers, and people who work night shifts or rotating shift-work schedules. 

Sleep terrors—A sleep disturbance in which the person appears to wake up screaming and terrified and may cry inconsolably for several minutes. Although the person is not fully awake, the sufferer often shows several physical signs of fear, such as sweating, dilated pupils, and increased blood pressure. Also called night terrors. 

But we already know that this conviction can be illusory and, indeed, that it normally is illusory when we dream. Because dreaming is an altered state of consciousness typically characterized by the illusion that we are awake and not rarely characterized by seeing the self as a third-person participant, it stands to reason that out-of-body experiences are natural, fully illusory alterations of consciousness. 

A final isomer to be mentioned is a positional isomer. The 3,4-methylene-dioxy group could be at the 2,3-position of the amphetamine skeleton, giving 2,3-methylenedioxyamphetamine, or ORTHO-MDA. It appears to be a stimulant rather than another MDA. At 50 milligrams, one person was awake and alert all night, but reported no MDA-like effects. 

Another use of the hallucinatory experience is to help the victim of a crime find the perpetrator. For example, if a robbery has occurred, the curandero listens while another person ingests the plant. It is believed that the intoxicated person will divine the nature of the deed that was done. Shamans also use Salvia divinorum to find lost animals and objects. After taking a dose under the supervision of a curandero, the person who has lost something goes to sleep in the presence of one other person, who stays awake. The sleeper speaks in his sleep, while the other listens. It is believed that the sleeper will tell the other one the location of the lost item. The next day they go to find it. 

The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) was developed as an alternative, physiologically based test of sleepiness (1). The test was designed for use with patients whose sleepiness during the day might adversely affect performance or safety. Reasoning on the basis of face validity, a person who has little difficulty with falling asleep inappropriately should be able to stay awake in a quiet, sedentary situation such as during MWT trails. Beyond the procedure s face validity, there are other rationales for the use of the MWT, as discussed below. 

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