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The Subliminal Level of Consciousness and Our Waking State · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  What we actively perceive and pay attention to with our waking
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  consciousness is a very small portion of the entire pattern of
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  energetic forces we are constantly subjected to and
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  which act upon us unseen and unrecognized.
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  Whether it is physical radiation, vital forces, or
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  mental thought forms, or the spiritual forces of the higher
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  planes of consciousness, there is an energetic impact that
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  impinges upon our being and helps to create and influence
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  the way we respond on the most superficial levels of the
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  external consciousness. The all or nothing phenomenon
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  illustrates just one way that such subliminal action takes
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  place. We do not see the movement of
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  photons impinging on our visual sense until a certain quanta of
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  photons is present to trigger sight.
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  Up until that point the photons are impinging on the sense
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  organ, but it is not triggering our awareness.
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  We know from a tremendous amount of research that various forms
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  of radiation can impact our health, our sense organs, and
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  our brains. But we do not perceive that
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  radiation without the use of measurement tools such as Geiger
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  Counter to tell us that it is there and active.
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  Anyone who has looked at the sun during an eclipse with their
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  unshielded eyes is affected by the radiation that accompanies
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  the sun's visible light, and this can be blinding.
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  We can feel the focus of an individual who is staring at us
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  or fixating their attention on us, even if we cannot actually
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  observe this. How many times do we get the
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  sense that someone is watching? And then when we turn around, we
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  can see that individual vibrations of all forms of
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  emotional and vital energy unseen by us are nevertheless
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  received, even if we do not acknowledge them with our waking
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  consciousness. They are exerting pressure.
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  Mental thought forms can exercise a similar unseen
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  influence. When we enter a zone where
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  intense study or mental work is taking place, we can actually
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  feel the atmosphere, but its effect impacts us whether we
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  consciously acknowledge it or not, Sri Aurobindo observes
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  quote. Our waking state is unaware of
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  its connection with the subliminal being, although it
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  receives from it, but without any knowledge of the place of
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  origin the inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will,
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  suggestions, sense suggestions, urges to action that rise from
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  below or from behind our limited surface existence.
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  Sleep, like trance, opens the gate of the subliminal to us.
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  For in sleep as in trance, we retire behind the veil of the
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  limited waking personality, and it is behind this veil that the
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  subliminal has its existence. But we receive the records of
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  our sleep experience through dream and in dream figures, and
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  not in that condition which might be called an inner waking,
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  and which is the most accessible form of the trance state.
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  Nor through the supernormal clarities of vision and other
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  more luminous and concrete ways of communication developed by
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  the inner subliminal cognition. When it gets into habitual or
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  occasional conscious connection with our waking self.
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  The subliminal with the subconscious as an annex of
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  itself For the subconscious is also part of the behind the veil
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  entity is the seer of inner things and of superphysical
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  experiences. The surface subconscious is only
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  a transcriber. It is for this reason that the
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  Upanishad describes the subliminal being as the dream
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  self, because it is normally in dreams, visions, absorbed states
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  of inner experience that we enter into and are part of its
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  experiences, just as it describes the superconscient as
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  the sleep self, because normally all mental or sensory
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  experiences cease when we enter this superconscience.
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  For in the deeper trance into which the touch of the
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  superconscient plunges our mentality, no record from it or
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  transcript of its contents can normally reach us.
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  It is only by an especial or an unusual development in a
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  supernormal condition or through a brake or rift in our confined
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  normality that we can be on the surface, conscious of the
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  contacts or messages of the Super conscience.
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  End Quote Reference Shriorobindu and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 2. Hidden Forces within pages 41 to
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  42.