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I can relate to the basketball player example from class- where, before she shoots, she tries to get out of her own head, in a way- trying to get out of her awareness, and her consciousness, to a place where she can focus without being so overly stimulated and aware. I try to do this when I play tennis, except a lot of the time, I end up failing. I've always tried to be able to find the key, the distinguishing factor, or factors, that result in either a successful escape, or a trapped, overly aware conscious. It's when I become aware that I need to escape that I know I'm already in trouble, and maybe that's a general part of the awareness part of the conscious. 

 I think different people have different resting states, with different measures of how aware and conscious of the world around them that they are in general. I think one of the biggest problems I have is being too aware and too involved in every little thing that goes on around me. Someone suggested that I read about the 'highly sensitive person', an innate sensitiveness.  I'm not sure I buy into the whole Jung personality types fully, but it is interesting. Do those of us, with such active conscious', have more trouble reaching down into what is unconscious? I wonder if you need all the noise and all the distraction to stop, in order to see what lies beneath and beyond?