Breaks

Common breaks of consciousness:

• Upon placing one's attention on other people and feeling startled or overwhelmed by the plethora of social anxieties, unspoken assumptions of etiquette and accepted/expected behavior that reside in our collective consciousness.
• Also upon seeing another person, one can be swept away by specific attractions, repulsions, dislikes, hatreds, needs, worship, anxieties that we relate to this person, or by evaluations and subsequent judgements, and then further thinking and ruminating about what we desire, enjoy, or fear, or hate, etc... about this person or about their perceived appearance.
• Also upon receiving a command or a suggestion, and being swept away by the reaction to obey, or to rebel, or to change one's focus abruptly towards listening, understanding, and heeding what they say or mean.
• Also upon opening one's eyes, while focus is placed in the spaces within, and then being overwhelmed by the incoming wave of sensations, details, perceptions, interpretations, identifications, assumptions, perceived demands or needs or attractions or repulsions towards oneself by the fullness and the complexity and pervasiveness of space and by our position and part in it. Receiving this wave unto our consciousness abruptly, particularly if one is not aware of the myriads of inputs that space provides, can sweep our consciousness out of focus, breaking its continuity.
• Also upon any such perceived force - attraction, repulsion, demand, need, fear, anxiety, excitement, surprise, etc - that can come from any source: memory, imagination, people, events in one's life, perceptions subtle and not, emotions, thoughts, anything.

One can practice and strive towards strengthening one's own focus, one's continuity of consciousness, if one is cognizant of the dynamics of consciousness, if one is willing and diligent to observe and pay attention to every single speck of information that is presented to oneself, and if one chooses to do so and persists, driven principally by one's own will.

When switching from one task to another abruptly, mostly when the following task is remembered surprisingly, and the former task is interrupted/abandoned without giving it a conscious closure.