 I have not slept at all. When I sleep, I sleep. Like dead. Yes, somebody wanted to measure the gamma waves in my brain. It's like one of my sheets is saying you're dead. So I can ask you a question about awareness. For example, when I sleep, I'm not aware of that. Or when I dream, I'm not aware that I'm dreaming. I think it's real. So I wanted to ask you what happens to you when you sleep. Can you go back to your room? I told you I sleep. I don't know. I don't know. I thought every human being has to sleep. Or what can we do about that? To be more aware of it and why I sleep. One thing is, unfortunately, there's no entertainment in my sleep. I don't dream. I have not slept at all for a long time. There's simply no dream. When I sleep, I'm like... I sleep like everything is dead. That's why I sleep very few hours, because I sleep like I'm totally on and breathing on. So you're aware that you sleep? You're always thinking awareness is mental alertness. Mental alertness is different. Awareness is different. If you turn mental alertness as awareness, then your dog is much more aware than you. But that's not right. It's not true. A wild animal is far more aware than you are. Is that so? That's not true. He's mentally alert. Whenever you are constantly placed in situations where your survival is in question, you will become mentally alert. That mentally alert thing doesn't make you aware. Awareness is not different from aliveness. Your aliveness is awareness. You know that you're alive only because you're aware, isn't it? Isn't it so? That is how would you know you're alive? How do you know you exist because you're aware? When we talk about awareness, we're not saying you're not at all aware. If you're not at all aware, you would know that you're here. You're aware. It is just that you are not aware of the whole scope of what this is. You're only aware of a certain part of what this is. If we want to look at this as a mechanism, this is a kind of mechanism, an incredible mechanism, but it's still a mechanism. Only in parts you're aware. You're not aware of the whole mechanism and the possibility of what it is. It's in that context we're talking about awareness. Do not mix up mental awareness, mental alertness and awareness because mental alertness can be switched on and switched off. Awareness cannot be switched on and switched off. It's just on. Life is awareness, please see. There's no other way. What you call as life is a certain level of awareness, isn't it? So are you aware? Yes, I am alive. Am I mentally alert? Not at all. Yes. There's no mind in me. When I sleep, I sleep. Like dead. This happened to me about 13 years ago or so. Usually I never subject myself to these things. I think it's an indignity. But I was caught up in an obligation where I had to give in to this and somebody wanted to measure the gamma waves in my brain. And they said, you want to measure? So I gave it to this and they wired me up all over. If I knew how many wires they went in the last moment, I would have said, no, but one by one by one they fixed it all over. Then they said, you meditate. I said, I don't know any meditation. You teach meditation. That's different for people who do not know how to be. I teach meditation but I don't know any meditation. I never meditate. I said, say, if you want, I can simply sit still. Is that okay? They said, okay, you just sit still. So I simply sat. Then after some time, I feel somebody doing this, this, this. I thought, okay, they're putting one more wire or something. They started poking me more and like this. They were looking at me like this. You know what? Either something has happened, my eyeballs have popped out. I don't know how I look like an alien. What have I done? What happened? I didn't change shape or something. They said, machines are saying you're dead. At least you could be brain dead because all of them are running flat. I said, that's a great diagnosis you can't. So, about the brain being alive, I can't vouch for it, but I'm alive, you can see that. The rest of it, it's up to you. So, it is just that if the mind is up, there's no mental illness and it may not be, you don't have to sleep like an animal constantly, every little sound, you know, your ears go like this. That's why you have not given that kind of ears you can have. You see how a cat or a dog is sleeping? Just a little. You don't have to sleep like that. In your bedroom, it's not an issue of survival. It's not an issue. You can turn off the whole damn thing and sleep. Now, if I go sleep in the wild, I sleep in a different way. When I go out on camp, I don't pitch a tent, I just sleep on the tree. So, then I sleep in a different way. I'm constantly alert because I'm on a tree branch. Either I could drop myself like the apple that fell long time ago or an elephant could pluck me down or a snake could get me. So, now I'm alert mentally. But when you're sleeping in your bed and if you're not married, you can switch off your survival process. There's no danger for you. So, mental alertness is necessary for survival. It's not awareness. Awareness is anywhere, man. Nothing to do about it. If you take away the distractions, it's fully on. It's always fully on. It's just that to make you conscious of that, you have to take away the distractions. So, whatever you're trying to do, whatever form of meditation you're doing, all you're trying to do is take away your involvement with the distractions so that this aliveness becomes a reality for you.