Consciousness

What is consciousness? 

I can only begin to observe my current point of conscious awareness.... right now. 

I am aware that my senses illustrate my experience with sight, smell, taste, sound, and physical touch. But I also have emotions. Emotions are a chemical response in the brain, that enhances the 5 senses. Emotional stimulation is what makes the experience of the 5 senses “real” or “understood”. 

We all know what it can feel like to have someone say mean things to you. Of course, terminology, conviction of expression and even your own perception can affect your emotional response.
At this point, it is evident that our perceived experience is processed and developed in the mind, and we are consciously aware of the results of development as we live them.   

But what if all your senses, memories, and emotions were deactivated? You would be nothing but consciousness itself, as well as alone.

What else might be going on as you are consciously aware, without anything to define what you are conscious of? At the least, it would be curiosity, would it not?

There have been studies done, where sitting in darkness long enough, the mind begins to hallucinate. This is a projection of possible definition, to define the conscious space. It is possible, that the projection of light would come first, as light is the opposite of the darkness that this consciousness resonates in. This is called sensory deprivation. One particular study refers to the “Ganzfeld Effect”, which is stimulated by the lack of visual stimulation. See also, “Ganzflicker Experience”.

There are also what's considered to be “mental illnesses” that cause hallucinations, whether in the dark or the light. But all the data in judging such things is based off of an average, or majority. Just because you cannot see or comprehend something, doesn't make it untrue and just because you can see or comprehend something doesn't make it true to anyone other than you.

 
Realism comes from experience and experience is regulated by sensory input that is processed in the brain. But judging from our own take on hallucinations, this would suggest that a consciousness that lacks definable substance would be ill or unstable, as it would create projections of things that are not really there. But everything can be defined by vibration or “frequency”, given the right tools to investigate, would it not? So, what is “really there”? 

Existence seems to be a construct of opposites (a living contradiction), and we (multiple perspectives of individuality), seem to argue with each other about what is the absolute definable truth. Doesn't that sound like a mental illness? Seems to me we are living some type of “identity crisis”. 

How do you cure this? 

Find a center point, the common denominator of all possibilities and make that your foundation. Relatable to Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion, you need a foundation to gain traction, something pushing back. Otherwise, you're just floating in the abyss, spinning in circles and going nowhere. I find this relative since everything is a vibration of energy.