Your detailed recall of the stages of thought, feelings and actions you observed in yourself is clearly recounted here. It seems that you were able to soothe yourself through focusing on being in the moment. The ability to detach from /notice what’s going on around you and to choose ‘red car, red car...’ reminds me of my own attempts to focus on a basic meditation ‘rising’ and ‘falling’ of breaths, which is so challenging! It sounds like even recognising changes, for example to your visual acuity, you’re still able to exist in the present moment—that relates, I think, to a meditative state, which engenders calm.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Your detailed recall of the stages of thought, feelings and actions you observed in yourself is clearly recounted here. It seems that you were able to soothe yourself through focusing on being in the moment. The ability to detach from /notice what’s going on around you and to choose ‘red car, red car...’ reminds me of my own attempts to focus on a basic meditation ‘rising’ and ‘falling’ of breaths, which is so challenging! It sounds like even recognising changes, for example to your visual acuity, you’re still able to exist in the present moment—that relates, I think, to a meditative state, which engenders calm. Thanks for sharing your insights.