Reality and Consciousness

Reality. Could it exist without a consciousness?

Consciousness. According to the english dictionary, it is "the quality or state of being aware, especially of something within oneself." Is that all there is to it? Awareeness?

Thought. Emotion. Coscience. Instinct. Could all these things be experienced without consciousness? Could you possibly live without a consciousness?

Our awareness gives reality to all. What we perceive, is the only thing that exists to us. Even dreams would become real to the dreamer who is in them. We make our surroundings. We make our world.

Thus, consciousness brings reality, change and life. Every single thing you say or do, all that you hear and see, anything that you can reason with and understand. That is all that is real to you.

Consciousness is the driving force of change and movement within us. It gives the strength to decide, assess and to pass judgement as well as law. It is the power with which we mould and construct the world we live in.

Yet, the consciousness is something that is very poorly defined. It is one thing to try and identify our consciousness, but it is another to attempt to gauge it. It is like the sea. It is clearly seen and its presence widely known, yet its depth and volume far exceeds the capacity of the human language to explain. (note: by the "human language" I'm referring to the written and spoken languages of the human race) It is our power to control; And it is also what constrains us.

How? Simple. What is the underlying factor that controls the human consciousness? What is it that filters and puts order and logic into what we see and perceive with our consciousness?

Belief. That is what governs our consciousness and thus reality. Our reality. Knowing all this, I ask again, could reality exist without a consciousness? Without our consciousness?