Consciousness

[jafar]

Then I ask, after we were born, when was that first moment when we discovered our "Self-Awareness"?

That depends on who do you mean by "I" / "We".

Remember that all of this is a game of 'identification' for and by consciousness, identity is virtual (maya) in nature, and can be multi-layered. An identity with finite border splitting into multitude of identities with finite border splitting again into multitude of identities with finite border and so on.

People sometimes uses the word 'soul' to refer to this virtual identity with finite border.

jafar (or Ming the Merciful) is a bring4th universe avatar, when was the first moment that they become "Self-Aware" one can easily see on their profile.

Prior to that "Spark of Awareness" was everything a Dreamworld.

Ask Ming the Merciful, what is he/she/it before the "Registration Date" on the profile.

Do we exist in Dreamless Sleep? The moment we awake from Dreamless Sleep, is that not the same the moment we realized our Self-Awareness after our birth? There is a connection between the two. The world is full of mysteries that the God(s) have hidden from us.

Ask Ming the Merciful, does he/she/it exist in dreamless sleep? Or perhaps dreamful sleep?
And imagine his/she/it death, let's say bring4th went offline, for good, who or what Ming the Merciful will be?
That one is relatively easy to answer since there is no 'veil of memory' between the identity of Ming the Merciful and it's 'one layer up higher self identity'.

A metaphor of this will be: Frodo will realize that he actually IS JRR Tolkien.
Once Frodo identify himself as JRR Tolkien thus gaining the memory set of JRR Tolkien, Frodo will realize that he is also Saruman, Sauron, Gandalf, Legolas, Boromir, Shire, Moria, Anduin, Hobbiton basically everything in the Lord of The Rings universe.
And all the war and conflict that happened inside Lord of The Rings are all conflicts that's happening within himself, which he experienced through many 'virtual identities' that he himself created.