I’ve experienced both this stuff and mild dissociative states on occasion, and yeah, they’re indeed different in the way that you describe. And I don’t have a model which would explain the difference.
My best guess that the pattern of defusion is different, and that in dissociation you’re somehow defused from your normal sense of self while still remaining fused with the conceptual structures that say that having a sense of self is important.
That puzzles me too!
I’ve experienced both this stuff and mild dissociative states on occasion, and yeah, they’re indeed different in the way that you describe. And I don’t have a model which would explain the difference.
My best guess that the pattern of defusion is different, and that in dissociation you’re somehow defused from your normal sense of self while still remaining fused with the conceptual structures that say that having a sense of self is important.
Or something. :)