Sounds exactly right to me indeed. I'd say just general HABITUAL introspection is what it is. As opposed to having to force it, it's a matter of introspection becoming a big automatic habit.
It is like a third person perspective indeed. Something I had way way less off/none of before. It developed onwards from since I was about 16 or 17 I reckon... and much more so since I was 19 onwards (I'm 21 now by the way).
It's like always feeling I am observing myself and so I don't feel myself but rather a kind of character or avatar that I am observing... self observation all the time is weird because it feels almost as though there are two mes :S
I read like 20 or so self-help books in the past... so whether any psychology in them has had an effect on me I'm not sure. In fact I think one or two of them have, in just remembering that I'm the one doing the thinking and not forgetting that obvious fact that it would normally be so automatic to do - but not anymore. Now I am just automatically used to thinking about thinking my thoughts AS I think them almost.
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It is like a third person perspective indeed. Something I had way way less off/none of before. It developed onwards from since I was about 16 or 17 I reckon... and much more so since I was 19 onwards (I'm 21 now by the way).
It's like always feeling I am observing myself and so I don't feel myself but rather a kind of character or avatar that I am observing... self observation all the time is weird because it feels almost as though there are two mes :S
I read like 20 or so self-help books in the past... so whether any psychology in them has had an effect on me I'm not sure. In fact I think one or two of them have, in just remembering that I'm the one doing the thinking and not forgetting that obvious fact that it would normally be so automatic to do - but not anymore. Now I am just automatically used to thinking about thinking my thoughts AS I think them almost.
EvF
