When we wake up in the morning, our conscious awareness expands from the sleep state. We first become aware that we were asleep.
Our conscious awareness then quickly expands further to our immediate surroundings, our thoughts, feelings and body - then to the wider physical world.
However, our conscious awareness can only expand as far the fog allows.
We cannot know how limited our awareness is until some of the fog disperses or 'burns off'.
We therefore take the content of the fog to be who we are and what we know to be true.
As explained earlier, this 'knowing' is always incredibly limited.
In fact, the more we Awaken the more we realise how we were, and still are living in a very limited state of awareness
Before Awakening begins, we may have a vague sense there is more to life.
It's like a nagging feeling that something is missing.
We don't feel 'complete'.
We try to find ways to 'complete' us - but nothing quite does it - or if it seems to for a while, the feeling of incomplete always comes back.
This 'feeling of lack' applies to our outer life of things and people, and also to our inner sense of 'who we are'.
When the fog first begins to 'burn off', many aspects of life start to make more sense.
This is the beginning of our 'conscious' Inner Journey.