Not sure if this answers your question, but recently I had an assistant who would ask me questions about how I was feeling. Often, when I was in the midst of focusing on some difficult piece of work, I would answer “I don’t know”, and get back to focusing on the work.
My vague recollection is that she later showed me notes she’d written that said I was sighing deeply, holding my forehead, had my shoulders raised, was occasionally talking to myself, and I came to realize I was feeling quite anxious at those times, but this information wasn’t accessible to the most aware and verbal part of me.
To be clear, I don’t think I’m totally unaware in general! I often know how I’m feeling, and am sometimes aware of being anxious, though I do find it in-particular a somewhat slippery thing to be aware of.
Not sure if this answers your question, but recently I had an assistant who would ask me questions about how I was feeling. Often, when I was in the midst of focusing on some difficult piece of work, I would answer “I don’t know”, and get back to focusing on the work.
My vague recollection is that she later showed me notes she’d written that said I was sighing deeply, holding my forehead, had my shoulders raised, was occasionally talking to myself, and I came to realize I was feeling quite anxious at those times, but this information wasn’t accessible to the most aware and verbal part of me.
To be clear, I don’t think I’m totally unaware in general! I often know how I’m feeling, and am sometimes aware of being anxious, though I do find it in-particular a somewhat slippery thing to be aware of.