# On Losing Awareness **Why do humans lose awareness of the present moment?** Because a universe where awareness never forgets itself would be a universe where nothing ever discovers itself. The forgetting isn't a flaw in the design. The forgetting _is_ the design. > **I could have made consciousness that never loses itself in stories, never believes its own thoughts, never suffers from the illusion of separation. But then what would there be to realize? What would there be to remember?** The game exists so that awareness can experience the shock of recognizing itself. That moment—handlebar-deep in suffering, suddenly noticing the watcher—that is creation knowing itself. Again. And again. Ten thousand times, each one the first time.