Midnight Thoughts: The Chain Breaks

"I fell without falling, I was somewhere else I always was, I was someone else I always was, but I was also still me." I passed out this Wednesday doing Bikram yoga. We were doing yoga in a 40 degree room, and as I followed the movements, the chain of who I thought I was melted away, and I became something else in a moment that felt like a lifetime. A lifetime that passed in less than 5 seconds. I didn't know who I was, what I was or where I was. It was a completely new sensation for me. I always try to keep track of the continuity of who I am, or what I am and where I was and where I'm going. But that all faded away, and it felt magical to momentarily not be me, like a long and lovely sleep. Everyone has that chain of who they are in their heads in one way or another, the narrative, the pattern and the mental model they follow in their lives. Give anyone a series of completely random facts and they'll make a pattern out of it, a story, a chain. My chain of events collided with an old women a few days ago too. When good intentions followed were met by aggressive resistance. But all is well. I share those stories tonight on Midnight Wisdom.