Is this experience close to no-self?

[stephenkettley]

I was just lying in my bed looking around me at my room and suddenly I had this strange shift in my consciousness where I felt like I was witnessing the inside of a snowglobe painted on the inside with what was my room and body etc. and it kind of felt like I was the space in the middle of the snowglobe where there exists nothing. Am I onto something here? Is this close to any of the no-self awakenings or am I just imagining random things?

So if I put out my hand in front of me, it feels like my awareness is the space inside the snowglobe and my hand is "painted" on the wall if you will. Make sense?

@Leo Gura could you assist me here please or anyone else who may have insight into the above. Thanks!

[Sempiternity]

Take the example of dreams. You are experiencing reality from a first-person perspective, you have a body, there's gravity, there's physics, you meet other people, and everything in that reality is 100% real to you. But that reality, and everything in it, is one thing: Consciousness/Mind. No self is the illusion that the first-person perspective and body, and mind, are separate from the whole. The whole is God imaging reality. Consciousness is God creating a reality where there is an illusion of separateness, so it can experience "other", and, makes itself forget it did so, so it can experience this reality unfettered by this knowledge. 

You're not the space between things, you are the whole of all that is direct experience. And just like a dream, the substance is nothing. Just Consciousness. Which is nothing imaging itself as something.

[Breakingthewall]

These kinds of experiences, like changes in the structure of perception, are a sign that your psychic structure is flexible. You may see reality as a tunnel, or all of reality may suddenly be a green fractal. There is no you, the observer, just a green fractal for 10 seconds, and that is reality. Or you may see that you are creating a mental flow bubble, deactivate it, and reality may be fluid, without edges, and feel the vertigo of the absence of reference. It may also happen that reality shines in a very powerful way, like absolute power, and that shine is reality. All these kinds of visions point toward something, but they are not exactly an opening to the absolute. The opening is totally clean, diaphanous, indescribable because it is, let's say, in your heart. Your mind becomes diaphanous, the entire field of perception is clarity, and the essence of reality is perceived, and you are one with it; you are it. There is no structure; there is the essence of reality, and nothing is missing; it is everything.

Variations in perception remain within the psychic structure; opening occurs when the structure disappears. That is, there is no understanding of how things are; understanding is always within the structure. The total does not require understanding; any understanding is partial. The total is total.

Edited Monday at 10:31 PM by Breakingthewall

[Hojo]

Your self is how you feel or the thing that feels, what its like to be you. When you see no self you will feel like what its like to be you, dissapear. When this happens what it feels like to be the universe comes in.

Edited Wednesday at 04:45 AM by Hojo

[James123]

On 7/22/2025 at 0:06 AM, stephenkettley said:

I was the space in the middle of the snowglobe where there exists nothing. Am I onto something here? Is this close to any of the no-self awakenings or am I just imagining random things?

How did you come back to reality?

İf you understand that you will go more deeper.