The Strangeness of Dreaming

In Paris last week I saw the Mona Lisa. But I can't say I was particularly impressed by it because I was sort of squinting from a distance. It's really weird. The typical experience of self can be altered very profoundly. People report things like ego dissolution. So the whole idea of being a self can become much less apparent. And where is the self is that where's its boundaries? These things can be radically changed, which I think is a way of revealing that our normal experience of selfhood should not be taken for granted as how things are.