As it bit me I believe that I began to experience what is have heard in the context of psychedelic drugs like DMT as 'ego death'. That one with everything feeling. I felt my sense of self slipping away, in these moments my vision went black, and my perception of reality was stripped of any context involving me as an individual, until I eventually woke up. — Eric Wintjen
I am aware that my ability to articulate this is not very good, and I am hoping that somebody who has had a similar experience either through dreams or psychedelics could help me understand and articulate this feeling more effectively, and perhaps point me in the direction of information related to this sense. — Eric Wintjen
That one with everything feeling. I felt my sense of self slipping away, in these moments my vision went black, and my perception of reality was stripped of any context involving me as an individual, until I eventually woke up. Its is a sensation more impossible to describe then then the strange state of being simultaneously an observer and participant in a dream.
But this experience left me with this deep feeling that I cannot shake, that our individual consciousnesses are just part of this greater whole. As if there is this great infinite fabric sheet and our consciousness is just a twisted knot out of that sheet, and 'ego death' is the unraveling of this twisted knot. — Eric Wintjen
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