---
title: "States of Consciousness Spread — The 4th Tarot"
url: https://4thtarot.com/spreads/sleep-awakening-conscious
description: "Map your current state of consciousness and what is possible."
lang: en
---

All spreads (https://4thtarot.com/spreads)

3 cards

consciousness

# States of Consciousness

Avasthā Traya — Three states

Map your current state of consciousness and what is possible.

## Positions

1. 1
   ### Sleep
   Question: Where am I mechanical?
   Your current state of identification and waking sleep. Where attention is captured.
2. 2
   ### Self-Remembering
   Question: What moment of presence is possible?
   The glimpse of divided attention. Aware of both self and world simultaneously.
3. 3
   ### Objective Consciousness
   Question: What quality of higher state is available?
   Not a permanent attainment, but a taste of higher consciousness reaching down.

Jungian

Unconscious-Conscious-Transcendent

Fourth Way

States of consciousness

Sanskrit

Jāgrat-Svapna-Suṣupti-Turīya

## Related Concepts

### Svapna

Sanskrit

The dreaming state of consciousness.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/svapna

### Self-Remembering

Fourth

The central practice of waking up to oneself in the present moment—feeling 'I am here, now' while simultaneously perceiving the outer world.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/self-remembering

## Other Spreads to Sit With

### Seven Centers Ascent

7 cards

Journey through seven wheels
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/chakra-centers-ascent

### Daily Center Check

1 card

Initiation
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/daily-center

### Self-Awareness Check

3 cards

Self-knowing
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/self-awareness-check

### Daily Check-In

1 card

Daily viewing
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/daily-check-in

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