QUESTION:
I wanted to know more about what happens when I fall into a deep sleep and I don’t even remember what I dreamt about or I simply lost all consciousness – where does my awareness go to? When I am in that space, I feel like there’s nothing wrong with anything and I love to be in such a space, not because I feel despair from life and because I don’t want to exist, but because I just love feeling like I am fulfilled and have everything. I wanted to know if there really is such a space like this in my soul, in which a person can love to be unconscious from everything, and if yes, is it constructive or not to enter and enjoy such a space.
ANSWER:
There are four levels of creations – domem, the still lifeless creations (i.e. rocks), and tzomeiach, the plants, and chai, the animals, and medaber, the human being. [And these levels are also states in the soul to access]. The creations that are domem – the still, lifeless creations - have a very low level of awareness. The human being has aspects of all these levels of creations within his soul, so a person also has a domem aspect within him – a still, silent state where one can disconnect from all pressure and stress on his soul, and he can rest in an inner silence.
Sometimes the soul finds this space so pleasant and serene because it is the domem aspect of the soul, where there is barely any awareness of any kind of deficiency nor any desire to have things perfect and complete, and this is because at the level of domem there is very little awareness. There is barely any movement of domem, unlike the other levels of creations which are plants, animals, and people. The word domem is from the word demamah, silence. When a person enters into the silent space in his soul, his domem aspect, of this it is said אך לאלוקים דומיה נפשי “Only to G-d, my soul is silenced”, where one [can feel that he is] completely given over in Hashem’s hands, and it is the state where one can feel כגמול עלי אמו “like an infant on the lap of his mother”, a state where there is no daas, no awareness, just like an infant who is simply drawn after its mother because he is in a state of t’mimus (earnestness).
Sometimes the soul finds this space so pleasant and serene because it is the domem aspect of the soul, where there is barely any awareness of any kind of deficiency nor any desire to have things perfect and complete, and this is because at the level of domem there is very little awareness. There is barely any movement of domem, unlike the other levels of creations which are plants, animals, and people. The word domem is from the word demamah, silence. When a person enters into the silent space in his soul, his domem aspect, of this it is said אך לאלוקים דומיה נפשי “Only to G-d, my soul is silenced”, where one [can feel that he is] completely given over in Hashem’s hands, and it is the state where one can feel כגמול עלי אמו “like an infant on the lap of his mother”, a state where there is no daas, no awareness, just like an infant who is simply drawn after its mother because he is in a state of t’mimus (earnestness).
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