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Here is something interesting you might like to try when you are going to sleep or just have some time to sit and relax. I guess you could call it something of a "mental exercise" that has a strange effect. I discovered it one night when I was just sitting in bed thinking about what it meant to be a “self.”
While you are sitting or laying down, try to relax yourself as much as possible.
Once you are fully relaxed say to yourself "I am me," and picture yourself. You do not have to make the picture realistic, or even worry about the details of your features, just let an image of yourself naturally appear. Don't to force any extra "reality" onto it.
You likely will not feel anything by thinking this, but continue repeating the phrase in your mind, "I am me."
As you continue repeating the statement, try to think harder and harder about the statement itself and what it means.
As you continue to repeat this you may start to feel distanced from yourself. Continue to concentrate hard and you will suddenly become very powerfully self aware, almost as if you are perceiving yourself from the 3rd person, yet are still intensely aware of your self. It is almost as if you realize that you are yourself from the outside in.
When I first “achieved” this state of thought it gave me chills up and down my spine. It was a very unusual feeling to realize that I was myself. It is very difficult to describe in a forum. It feels vaguely out-of-body, yet you still feel your “self” very intensely. If any of you actually give this a try it would be interesting to see what it does for you, if anything.
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