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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
The quotes I gathered below from this thread all set the concept of sense of self squarely in the middle of human action in trying conditions. It is only in such contexts where the self comes alive, so to speak, or temporarily steps down as needed.
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I believe that's an artefact arising from my particular example, which I selected because it was the only personal experience I have of relevance to the question you asked: better, I thought, to offer a direct report than to offer a report of someone else's report. That then triggered a discussion about the relevance of "self" to stressful situations, which accounts for the selected nature of the text available.
But I could have offered the story of a man who lost "himself" whenever he looked in the mirror or heard someone address him by name. The trigger there seems to have been the momentary mental event "That's me!" And there are others who describe simply sliding out of self at random moments during the day.
Grant Hutchison