I'll try my best. Ego dissolution involves the complete loss of ability to identify oneself introspectively. There’s a sense of disorientation and ‘groundlessness’ as you iteratively realize none of the mental objects, ‘thought stream’, ‘sensation of your buttock’ ‘sensation of your back leaning against a chair’ are actually, really ‘you’ and that there is no underlying stable, singular feeling you can concretely identify as yourself, just an expansive void.Oh okay :) Can you explain to me why you think that? I'd like to understand what the difference is between ego-death and the feeling I tried to describe.
Ego dissolution involves the complete loss of ability to identify oneself internally and a fragmentation, breaking apart of your internal self-representation. — aporiap
When reading about ego-death, I remembered this feeling and it kind of described what happened back then.
Is this feeling I describe a brief ego-death? Is it even possible to randomly experience a brief period of ego-death without drugs? — Regi
There are definitely key, identifiable features of that experience that are missing in his description. Not at all to diminish or delegitimize the impact, but clearly it isn't the sameno one is in the business of issuing certificates of authenticity.
It is as though you are completely dissolving away from the inside and you no longer have a sense of internal reference to a stable, singular self. So it's not a moral desire, it's something like a frightening, terrifyingly vivid realization of the fact that self is a manufactured entity. — aporiap
I experienced this unique feeling for 3 days if I remember correctly. On the fourth day, I bought a bag of bite-sized Snickers and ate it all myself, until I felt sick. — Regi
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