rience and better chooseamong various possible futures.” What makes humans extraordinary in the animal kingdom is our awareness of being. It isan awareness of our life and existence coupled with our advanced capacity to reason that makesus different than the other animals of the Earth. I believe that it may not only be our awareness ofthought, but the exact capability of being aware somehow of our subconscious motivations. Astrong sense of our subconscious can be obtained in a state of sleep where the sleeper is fullyaware not only that he or she is dreaming, but that he or she is actually sleeping. Humans cannow do this regularly without any type of influencing hypnotic suggestion given by a hypnotist.This state of mind seems to be more powerful than any kind of hypnosis, even self-hypnosis. Ibelieve that somewhere locked inside our minds is an empirical understanding of our existencenot just an awareness....