Sometimes when I wake up, I feel like I’ve been thinking for a few seconds without being conscious. Then consciousness kicks in and I have a vague memory of what I was thinking ‘without being there.’ It’s very scary
>what is the hypnopompic state
>>16906528It's probably your brain flushing out dream info.
>and I would walk 500 miles-
It’s common, I get this before I fall asleep; I’m thinking, but not in conscious control of my thoughts.
>>16906528Congrats anon, you've seen the truth of how our internal monologue is not our true intentio. It's an automatic voicebox constantly playing which tries to accurately predict what our next intent will be, and gives feedback of how we're feeling. But our deeper atomic self is not that voice, it's even more foundational yet also more dormant than that inner voiceI'm not Buddhist, but I've also experienced this, and I do reckon being in that awareness is a large part of what enlightenment is. It doesn't mean being without thoughts (mindless), it is being full of thought and still being in that awareness intermittentlyYou've seen behind the veil and are free.
>>16906528That's how animals are and what differentiates us from them unironically
You can take psychedelics and convince yourself that you've been gone for months. Some lunatics will unironically believe this objectively, but it just corroborates the notion that the mind a slave to its biology, even as something as sacred as chronology.
>>16906528The analogy I have used is climbing up one tree and then you hop to another tree and now you can't remember the tree that got you there.
>>16909274>being in that awareness is a large part of what enlightenment isNeat. like how I disassociate during rage as a control mechanism to try and not smash anything There must be something about release as well if I can parallel it with something like that..
>>16906528you should read up on what happens during anethesia. modern anesthetic study is quite advanced, we even know how to induce different states of consciousness where we can brainwash people, get people to remember things, say things, do things, without there being any sort of executive "knower"/conscious
