Using the term “sleeper”, suggests that the user has no concept of the state of mind of the unaware person.
A person is unaware, because the new information is too anxiety-provoking to reach their awareness. That is: their higher conscious and intellectual levels of functioning.
They have not developed the mental capacity to tolerate the anxiety. It does not emerge into consciousness, for them to be able to assess the new information. It is treated as dangerous and life-threatening. They defend against it with negation; blocking it. This occurs beneath consciousness and all that presents consciously from them is: “No” or denial of the new information: avoidance, mocking and ridicule of it and any who speak it.
A group of similarly unaware people reinforce this resistance. It is the reality for that group.
Increasing the level of anxiety and discomfort will increase their resistance.
If the term “sleeper” is used by the “aware”, the fantasy, is that all you have to do, is “wake them up.”
That is a luxury, that only the “aware” can have, because they have the capacity to face the new information. It is expecting the unaware person to have the same capacity as the aware person.
They do not. That is why they are unaware. And remain so, despite more and more information which is blocked again and again, because it simply increases their anxiety beyond acceptable limits and their mind deals with it as a mortal danger and blocks it out....<<<Read More>>>....