“waking up from a dream” is a relatively common description as are the other things you describe. As your “mindfulness” improves you will more or less permanently shift into “awake”. With practice the experience transitions from a “psychological” state to a “psychological” trait. Using Kahnemans terminology this transition can crudely be thought of as the balance of power shifting from the “remembering self” to the “experiencing self”
There has been (some) research on the hoped-for effects of meditation. http://nonsymbolic.org/publications
“waking up from a dream” is a relatively common description as are the other things you describe. As your “mindfulness” improves you will more or less permanently shift into “awake”. With practice the experience transitions from a “psychological” state to a “psychological” trait. Using Kahnemans terminology this transition can crudely be thought of as the balance of power shifting from the “remembering self” to the “experiencing self”
https://lindagraham-mft.net/the-experiencing-self-vs-the-remembering-self/