Attention is caught between the inner screen of thoughts and inner dialogue and the outer screen of the environment. Waking means centring attention between the two rather than being hooked by either. From this centre you observe reality instead of dreaming it.
Apply today
For thirty seconds, notice a thought on the inner screen and an object on the outer screen at once, holding both without merging.
Common pitfall
Trying to blank the inner screen. The aim is to see it, not to silence it by force.
In the books
Tufti the Priestess