Waking up from the trance of personality occurs in much the same way. We do a kind of double take, asking ourselves, “What was that all about? Where was I a moment ago?” We can be surprised at how lost we were, although in those previous states we did not feel lost. If someone had asked us if we were fully present and awake, we would have said yes, but from this new perspective we can see that we were not. We may realize that entire sections of our lives have actually been spent in “sleep.”
