Jan 25, 2023 · Ego death is were you, the person, dissolves. You don’t know you existed, you don’t know who or what you are, you just simply are. People experience it differently. When I had ego death I was a rock next to an ocean. I didn’t know I ever was human. I simply was a rock at peace and saw thousand of years pass, civilizations rise and fall.

I used ‘ego death’ because it seemed to be the closest thing that I could relate to my experience. The important point is that it left me a changed person and I don’t know how to cope with it. If it gives you peace knowing a 19yo didn’t have an ego death then you can sleep with it. Unless you have something helpful to contribute that is.

Feb 27, 2014 · Ego death is a specific experience that can occur on high doses of psychedelics (such as LSD; but by no means limited to LSD). A lot of people describe any powerful psychedelic experience as 'ego death'. This is wrong. You can have …

Ego-death is the experience of what we typically call the self (the part that wants, the part that has preferences, what other people have said, etc), disappearing completely and being left with pure experience.

Jul 25, 2023 · I define ego death as experiencing consciousness but without any memory of anything at all. I have experienced visuals during ego death, I just would not have been able to compare them to any past visuals, colors, etc, but in retrospect I clearly recall seeing something akin to being inside a brown cylinder of moving brown light.

When people say "ego death," they mean ego in the psychology sense, not the colloquial usage of the word. Your ego is the gatekeeper between your conscious and unconscious mind and is what gives you a sense of self, in terms of how you can …

If you remove the ego through psychedelics or other methods, that is an ego death. Nothing matters to you expect that fact that something exists. It is like your ego is a dry erase board full of hopes,dreams, and fears, and an ego death erases everything.

Nov 3, 2019 · 剛剛讀了《深夜加油站遇到蘇格拉底》，意外地找到了這篇文，我相信擁有過ego death經驗的人都很難忘記當下所體悟的；上一次，也是我第一次ego death已經是五年前了，只能說可遇不可求，況且倘若真的進入了那個狀態，自身的心靈狀況也須納入考量，是否能夠接受那麼龐大的思想改變。

Jun 25, 2024 · A lot of people seeking ego death seem to think they need to permanently escape their ego or that the ego is a negative part of experience. Or that the experience will cause some sort of fundamental shift that will make them psychologically perfect and healthy.

Nov 3, 2021 · Ego death is the dissolution of the self but not necessarily consciousness. You can still be very much awake and aware but all the sticky attachments that make you feel like you melt away. What's left is an intense experience of ineffable aliveness and an intimacy with the immediate moment that gets lost in the day to day grind.