Everyone experiences pure awareness—consciousness without self—for 500 milliseconds (or 750 milliseconds to a full second in unfamiliar settings) upon waking, during which there is a lag before the self reconstitutes and 'the story starts.'
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Michael PollanEvidence Quote
“we all have it every morning for 500 milliseconds right when we wake up and there's this lag of um where am I, who am I?”
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