>>12137921i have definitely experienced something akin to this after a long period of meditation followed by some very focused thinking/reasoning about emptiness, anatta, and dependent origination. It didn't last any longer than a half-hour, but traces of it kinda influence my day-to-day thought processes much like the strongest acid trip I've ever done. It's not so much about sensation though as it is more mindfuck, and it's transient. Many buddhist devotees speak of "little enlightenments" where you catch a glimpse but it's not "permanently there", and I personally adhere to zen where sitting meditation IS the only enlightenment that means anything, everything else is essentially just talk.
>>12138773That's not congruent with my experiences of thought loops, I never forgot what I was thinking about ten seconds ago, more that I'm aware my thoughts are looping and it's not a static loop but rather changes as it goes, more a spiral than a loop. It's also relatively simple to put an end to it - whatever you're doing, do something else. Simple as. Maybe your experience is different. My memory is one of the only things about me that (seems to be) better than average, not to stroke my dick or anything, just an observation that could maybe account for this discrepancy. The highest I've ever gotten was 4 tabs of non-diluted (i.e. not methanol soaked to get 2 sheets from one sheet) blotter, and my memory worked fine afterwards, I still remember the bulk of it although obviously my memory of the exact sensation is less clear than the imagery, visuals, and events that made up the trip. I can actually still recall nearly all of it, and it's been almost a decade.
