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The experience of being aware of being aware may be triggered by the thought ‘Am I aware?’ but it is revealed between this thought and the response ‘Yes’, that is, in between two appearances of mind. Just as the colourless screen is all that is present between two frames of a movie, so the experience of being aware or awareness itself is all that is present between two appearances of mind. However, just as the transparent screen–the background and reality of the movie–does not itself appear as an object in the movie, so the experience of being aware can never be experienced by or appear in the mind, even though it is the background and reality of the mind itself.