>>13450092If you are talking about using dissociative anesthetics to induce hallucinations I can kind of get what you mean, but I don't really think you are using the term Identity clearly.
The other day I was using a disso (methoxphenidine) and the physical effects of numbing your body has pretty significant effects especially when you are not moving and eyes shut. Your brain constantly tries to have a sense of the relative positions of your body parts and it feeds that into your consciousness so you just "know" where they are at all times. Then using your vision you generate a 3d? model of the your environment and place yourself within it. When your physical senses start to numb this process just doesn't work and trying to map yourself to any environment doesn't make any sense. You close your eyes and your eyelids are infinitely large, your torso doesn't exist, arms are stretch across the entire earth, and you feel like you are flying through space.
It is impossible to map yourself to any environment and you might think your brain only works by mapping things in relation to others things. If you cant map yourself to an environment the idea of your identity breaks down. but is it gone? I don't think so. There is still thoughts coming from your mind and you are still experienced sensation (however from within). This action of sensation has to happen to someone so there must still be a "you" under the hood.
There is a sense of ego death when using disso's so this is probably it, but i don't think its real ego death. Your ego just manifests itself as something you are not use to it manifesting as. I can definitely see what you mean tho. The medium that you use to generate your sense of self is gone, but you really don't need a medium for it. Since you can experience it directly. In its purist form. That is why holing can be considered "introspective"
