"This I Believe" Choose One and Freewrite Exercise

     I believe that I am more than my physical body. Such an interesting statement. I am more than my physical body. That was the statement I had heard once in the past by one known as Robert Monroe. While it's easy to choose to be a believer, as one can believe anything said by another or written by another, if he or she so chooses. It is another to be a "knower" of something. I know that the term knower is not grammatically correct, but it has become a title to me. One that is achieved and not handed to you by another or granted to put before your name simply because you attended a course. Most of those titles are still given to those who believe. I believed and still do believe a number of things even though I do not know them. However back to I am more than my physical body. I began in the past to wonder where do I begin and end on the subject who am I and what is this I that I am referring to? Am I my thoughts I would wonder? Am I my emotions or am I this body at that? I say I and refer to this body and I if I inhabit it. Do I inhabit it thought? Or is it possible that it is much like an avatar in some game much like a child would play a video game and control that character on a little screen? Hard to say on that note. I looked at dreaming for example. What are those and how are they made? I tried to do research and follow the thought of scientist, and I'm still not sure that I understood that they understood either. I experienced dreams where I became aware that I was dreaming though I didn't wake up. I took control of my dream state and moved around as I pleased. But how? I wasn't certain. To further this I had an experience I wasn't sure I could explain. I laid down after a long day at a house with a group of friends. It had been a long, exhausting day, and I felt it in my body as I drifted quickly into a sleep state on the couch of the living room. The lights were still on and a friend of mine sat typing at his computer in the living room while others answered phone calls and interpretting dreams. I became aware either before sleeping on in that state of sleep that I was awake. Or was I? For I was not staring at the room from the couch but rather I stared at my own physical body from a few feet from where I slept. It made little physical sense, as the object that was placed here was a coffee table. I could perceive myself clearly in the light of the room. I thought to myself how I shouldn't have fallen asleep with a red blanket pulled around my head. I appeared as a red bearded, red-riding hood, passed out holding a pillow. Quite a strange experience but it was one that lead me to know that I was more than physical...it seems that my 10 minute timer is going off.

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