Hey there!

[mickeytee]

I'm glad that a forum like this exists. It's really pretty too.

I only really started to understand why people meditate, last month upon reading Ken Wilber's books. When I'm mindful, I feel like I'm in a video game and everything becomes all that more exciting. Sadly I'm not mindful most of the time, and get lost in my uneasiness while immersed a difficult task, or in the inertia of procrastination, but that'll change. The possibilities of disidentifying from both body and mind are very exciting to think about. I've had a few very brief occasions where I could see everything, and was utterly sure of myself, free from all fears and angst. I want to sustain that.

[JonW]

Hi mickeytee,
Welcome to the forum.
I'm a big fan of Ken Wilber too. A true visionary.
I've never heard mindfulness compared to a video game before. How do you mean exactly?

All best wishes,
Jon, Hove

[mickeytee]

When I'm mindful, I feel completely detached from the body. I can run my finger over the back of my palm, but the visual of the palm and the feeling of the stroke register as two completely different sensations in the consciousness. Things also seem more 2D,closer. My body and the objects around it feel the same. Just as when you play a video game, you still see the character and the environs as part of the same thing.

[JonW]

"When I'm mindful, I feel completely detached from the body."

That sounds like an interesting experience but mindfulness isn't really about disidentifying from both body and mind.
I'm not trying to deny or devalue your experience in any way and I appreciate that there are schools of thought (non-duality etc.) that would argue the case for that kind of detachment ("thou art that"). But that falls outside of mindfulness practice which is more about gently zoning in than zoning out.
All best wishes,
Jon