"Oh, my lazy mind."
When you start realizing the source of your REAL dilemma - your lazy mind - it will have the utterly amazing effect of turning UP the volume and volumn of information being pushed through your lazy mind, and you might even have an Epiphany.

Once you have the Epiphany of what mind is, you see what's going on, and you can't forget it. Rather than association of past memories being that which drives your mechanical thought, the Realization of what you discovered will drive it.

You go from trying to be direct - telling yourself and everybody you know things, and thereby being confused, confusing and indirect - to being intentionally Direct - and knowing you (mind) can't know anything at all EVER. Sans a brain, you're brain-dead, and will die as the dog. With brain, your chances are not improved, until you improve them.

Mind is just that confluence of inner events occurring when thought is being mechanically pumped through you - like right now as you're reading this. You didn't write my words. You couldn't write my words. You won't be able to write your OWN WORDS until you give up trying to be "direct" (thereby being only confused and confusing), and start being intentionally DIRECT - point-blank, in-your-face. That means coming from your own Understanding, not your goofy theories about what Gurdjieff said, or Ouspensky said, or Jesus, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, or Nisargadatta, or anybody else.

Your whole environment is the "cause" of your sleep, and you're allowing it to govern you.

Waking UP, simply means, to stop letting prior beliefs govern you -start inventing your OWN new understandings about what's going on.