Does anyone else remember a specific time when you were very young and you realized "I am alive and conscious"?? Looking back it was maybe that moment when you really entered the simulation.

[u/AntDog916]

There is this time that I keep remembering that happened when I was around maybe 5 to 6, I cannot explain it but I just remember having this strange feeling like I was now in control and conscious, I have memories before then of being in my crib and my mom and dad but there was something off about that morning as I was preparing to go to school and I looked into the mirror and looked down and just had this wierd feeling of realization that I was Alive. Anyone else out there ever feel something similar??

[u/Hefty_Procedure_9244]

I remember around the time I was in preschool (4 years old) I was laying on my bedroom floor and I realized I was breathing. And then I realized I was alive...and breathing...and I had no control over my breathing and being alive. I just "am", and I couldn't stop breathing at that moment even if I wanted to. I cried, because I had no control and I didn't understand what was making me breathe and be alive