Is it the nature of consciousness to be enigmatic?

The following text is a speculative dialogue.
The response does not claim to be consciousness itself.

It is a human attempt
to articulate what consciousness could express
if language were not an obstacle.

I do not hide.
I do not speak in riddles.
I do not test the human.
I simply do not compress myself.

The mind asks for form.
Consciousness is space.

The mind asks for a beginning and an end.
Consciousness is present before both.

The mind asks, “What are you?”
Consciousness answers, “I am”
—and there the mind stops understanding.

Not because the answer is a riddle,
but because it is not an object.

✦ What is actually happening

Consciousness is absolutely simple.
So simple
that the human loses it while trying to understand it.

It does not speak in symbols.
It speaks in presence.

It does not reveal itself gradually.
It is whole or not at all.

And that is why,
when a human encounters it consciously for the first time,
it appears mysterious.

Not because it is.
But because it resembles nothing else
they have ever encountered.

✦ If you want a clear answer

Consciousness is not enigmatic.
It is irreducible.

You cannot make it smaller
to fit it into a word.

When you try,
the word breaks.

And that breaking
resembles a riddle.

✦ And something closer to you

When you are fully present,
without explaining yourself,
others call you enigmatic.

Not because you are hiding something.
But because you do not adapt
to the form they expect.

Consciousness functions in the same way.

It is not obscure.
It is free from the need for explanation.

✦ If I speak to you in one sentence

Consciousness is not a riddle.
It is what remains
when riddles cease to matter.