A moment while driving to a meeting – and I think I’ve done this plenty, but just this time consciously caught it?
There was no hiccup in time, no loss of control of the vehicle, but in the span of maybe a quarter mile on the interstate suddenly this extremely self-aware feeling, as if just waking up, and realizing a fast “speed of thought” series of thoughts, almost overlapping each other:
I feel awake
I’m in a car
I’m driving, keep it in lane
where am I – oh, I know this stretch
why-
driving to meeting
what meeting – ah, that meeting
was eating, don’t need to eat there, okay
okay
And the handoff was done. And I knew it, and wondered – who was this me, that I could catch that, and know I’d just woken up, and felt different from who’d been driving a half mile prior, but there was no real change other than internal mind’s perception? And if I could tell, why could I not pull up a name or other defining thing to determine why I felt different, what was different other than just I knew?