I Am Dude
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I noticed something while meditating this morning. I was in a state of mental silence, and started to enter an altered state when a thought came into my head. This thought wasn't mine. It was a young woman, blonde, slightly overweight. She was thinking that she did not want to move from her current home, and wondered where she was going to live. I momentarily became her.
I regained my normal awareness and realized what I had just experienced didn't originate in my own personal mind. I soon fell into another deep state, where I began experiencing another line of thoughts which were not mine. This time they were some man's. I cannot recall what the thoughts were, but I instantly knew they weren't mine, and experienced myself as being that man while I thought those thoughts.
I realized that this happens to me often, usually when I am drifting off to sleep, passing through various altered states, and also when I meditate. I usually take it for granted that they are just fantasies of some sort, but my experiences today seem to hint at another possibility. When I was thinking these thoughts, it seems that I temporarily adopted the mind of that individual; I was that person during those thoughts.
Yesterday while meditating I also experienced this phenomenon. It was the first time I really began to consider the possibility that maybe there was more to these thoughts than just fanatsy.
There are a couple of possibilities that I am playing with. One is that I am entering a state where my mind is connected with the minds of others in some sort of mental plane, and my consciousness is merging with these individuals.
The other idea I have is that these thoughts are coming from members of my higher self/disk. I am entering a state in which I am temporarily aware of our connection through our oversoul.
Both of these possibilities raise the question: What is the significance of these thoughts? Is there a reason why I am experiencing them? Is there a reason why I am connecting with these specific individuals in particular? Are they random people, or do we have a connection of some kind? Is it important that I be aware of these individuals' thoughts? Do they have some kind of significance in my own personal life?
I will have to explore this deeper to find the truth.
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