r/enlightenment

I'm enlightened and I know it, clap my hand.

I'm enlightened and I know it, clap my hand.

I'm enlightened and I know it, and I really wanna show it.

I'm enlightened and I know it, clap my hand.

guys I’ve done it all!! I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 15 and noticed it in my inability to focus in classrooms but I could always get stuff done (medicated) at home. However, when I got to college I found it much more difficult to remember to do things, even if I really wanted to do them. Here are the things I have done that have really changed my life:

1. I really struggle waking up in the morning before my meds kick in so even taking them without falling back asleep is hard. I sleep with my pillbox in my bed with water directly beside me. It minimises the risk as much as possible. When I’m dating someone, I often ask them to wake me up to give me my meds so I can fall back asleep and wait for them to kick in.
2. I also sleep with my planner in my bed so that I look at the planner instead of random shit on my phone. I find it pretty hard to even remember my name most mornings so it really helps me set my intentions or at least remember 2-3 important things to do.
3. I also don’t remember any of the things I have done that I have successfully completed, both large and big things. Every day I write down what tasks I did in my notes app so I am aware that I am making progress and am not just floating aimlessly through time and space.
4. Everything showers twice a day 🌟 I cannot do a morning routine sequentially. I don’t know what it is, but I do something different every time. Like I put my socks on and then brush my teeth and then stop to do something else and then I don’t remember to do the rest until way later in the day. So I just keep all of my face wash, toothbrush and etc in my shower so I can just do it all in one go. For me, it has made a huge difference.
5. One thing I do in the kitchen is use a pour over coffee maker. The time it takes for the water to boil, I can usually do the dishes and pick up my kitchen. Crazy how quick you can do it under the timer. It's like last minute procrastination for me.
6. I really struggle with interrupting people in conversation and an insane trick I learned is crossing your fingers if you need to say something and the other person is still talking. People with ADHD often want to blurt out the thought to “get it out” often to not forget it. Doing something small and unnoticeable (someone suggested crossing their toes) helps your brain acknowledge what you want to say. This helps not only give your brain a pause so you can better regulate when you speak but also remember what you wanted to say.

I still struggle with this but it has really helped me.

Projection might be the worst part of modern spirituality. You will have to excuse me but I learned from books by Buddist and the Tao Te Ching, which if you haven't read you are going to find a lot more than you get out of internet or YouTube videos.

People who have taken for granted things in their lives live with an unhealthy amount of guilt when they come to that realization. Then for some reason, they think everyone else has. Then they insist that if you are not doing the over the top fake gratitude thing then you do not have any. Going from the gratitude-less to the gratitude police. This is a form of thinking that should be avoided.

If you understand gratitude, you will love it in all its shy expressions. Subtly is truly a lost art form, and there is no reason to explain it to people who will simply never get it.

I hear snapping sounds when i am in esoteric thinking, it happens everywhere, on plastic, metal, wood, its not material decompression, it happens to often, sometimes it snaps twice in a row also. Like what is this? Its been like this for a year now

I want my mind to consistently be aligned with my true self.

But instead, I get caught into hyper compelling fantasies due to unmet desires that (ironically) only my core self can meet.

How did your awareness lead and transform your mind so that it’s living aligned/ harmoniously/ surrendered with your true self?

So that you are pretty much like this most seconds of every day.

Currently it’s taking me forever to get in touch with my core self when I get lost in my mind.

What path or strategy was an actual solution that transformed your mind?

Please help thanks!

Easy example:

1. Getting mad
2. Getting lost in compelling angry thoughts
3. Taking forever for your awareness and willpower to dra

g yourslef back to being in your core self (where you have no interest in angry thoughts.

4. Goal is to stay. Next time, you aren’t compelled by anger because you have satiated it by aligning the mind with the infinite source within (to a good enough amount where you can finally enjoy your life) .

There’s nothing more to moving than glitching your left analog stick, and nothing more to thinking than moving your right analog stick. If you do both at the same time, the character will fall; that’s when you’ll realize the only way to exit full-screen mode is by minimizing everything.

There’s nothing more to playing a platformer than losing your platform, and that’s when you’ll see you never actually played anything here. It was all just a road leading you toward Traverse Town, where you'll end up obtaining your first Lucid Shards.

There are only doors here, and nothing will open until you begin holding the doorknob. That is when you’ll find all the doors are locked in this Wonderland realm, and the only thing left to do is "play"—even if there is nothing here to be played. That’s where you’ll realize your character was meant to play everything without any limits. Don’t forget your D-pad, so you can act the part successfully again. ♾️

It’s time to say goodbye to the "Game Over" screen and hello to "New Game+."

This world is a world much stranger than fiction, and no one is actually drawing/writing fiction here, and the gods that control everything here are "real" in nature, and they're not exactly "humanoids", and there isn't a line that separates the dream world and the real world here, and the underworld that has all the answers to everything does exist, and no one is actually writing/drawing a piece of fiction, and all of it are a reality, and realities that you would end up on experiencing the more you try to dig towards the "truth" here, this universe is another fantasy universe that's "unreal" in nature, and the beings that control and do everything here do exist in ways you can't imagine or comprehend, and that's when you'll realize that you were never actually "human" to begin with, and the descent towards madness is as easy as realizing everything is deliberate here, from the moment you stepped til your eyes begin to close permanently here.. and there are ways to continue the story even beyond "death" here, and that's when you'll see that non-real beings that you kept on drawing here have always been "real", and none of the media that you keep on playing are actually non-sensical in nature... It's a reality that's much deeper than what meets the eye here.. and that's when you'll realize that the gods have always existed here, it's time to delay your half-life 3 jokes even further beyond.. and sometimes the one that knows everything has been working at your coffee-shop since the beginning, don't ignore the rabbit signal. ;p

I see very different descriptions, some talk about clarity or peace, others about the loss of the self.

Curious how people here understand it from their own experience.

Identity is the first filter, not a neutral label added afterward. You don’t first see reality and then form a self-concept. More often, the self-concept is already sorting reality before thought catches up. It decides what feels threatening, what feels validating, what gets ignored, and what gets defended

The ego isn’t inherently the enemy. You need some functional structure to navigate life, make choices, hold boundaries, and act coherently. The problem is misidentification. Once you mistake a temporary role, story, wound, status, tribe, or spiritual self-image for what you fundamentally are, perception becomes defensive. You stop seeing clearly and start protecting the identity

Across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Gnosticism, the doctrines differ, sometimes sharply. But many converge on one uncomfortable point: ordinary human consciousness is not trustworthy when organized around a false center. Christianity emphasizes renewal of the self in God. Judaism emphasizes humility, covenant, and the danger of self-justification. Islam emphasizes remembrance, submission, and the way forgetting God leads to forgetting oneself. Hinduism distinguishes the deeper self from false ego and false doership. Buddhism goes furthest in challenging any fixed self, arguing that clinging to self is itself part of suffering. Gnosticism emphasizes self-knowledge and waking from false identification.

Modern systems exploit this distortion. Politics turns identity into loyalty. Social media rewards caricature over truth. Consumer culture teaches people to buy selves. Spiritual culture often turns awakening into branding. Trauma can become not just a wound, but a total identity. In all of these, the same mechanism appears: identity shapes perception, then thought rationalizes it

The core insight is simple and harsh: most people are not seeing reality directly. They are seeing through the needs of the self they are trying to preserve

The practical implication is not to destroy the self, but to stop worshipping it. Use identity as a tool, not as ultimate truth. The moment you can notice, “I am defending an image, not pursuing what is true,” distortion begins to loosen

Semi long read. Just been thinking about this for a long ass time. Thanks :)

So I’ve thought about this deeply. My experience was almost 10 years ago and I remember it crystal clear to this day. I ceased to exist as a human and lost all memory of my human life on earth. I stopped being me and became “I am” and was “I am” for eternity until I split “I am” into i am this or I am that until I built reality and came into my body almost as if this was like a new experience not something I was returning too.

Ive always been puzzled by why “i am” /god/source (what ever you want to call it) would create anything rather than just continue being infinite oneness and love. (Btw i believe “i am” is always existing in this form outside of the illusion of separation). but in my experience “i am” in its purest form did not have thoughts or loneliness it simply just was “i am” with nothing to experience besides “i am”.

My theory’s have extended to “i am” is lonely and wanted to experience its infinite love with others,to “i am” wants to learn about itself by having an infinite amount of possible experiences of separation. Maybe “i am” wants to know how it started to exist and is looking for answers through separation. ( even though “ I am” has never had a beginning or an end and is beyond time/space/illusion)

It’s always blown my mind to think that nothing is outside “i am”. Infinity is one because it must include everything and therefore is nothing simultaneously while being everything.

But I look back to my experiences of being this infinite oneness and what I found is this is just what “I am” does. Everytime I ask why, I just get the answer of how. My experience was “i am” split itself into separation through the flower of life pattern. I feel like I was shown this flower of life pattern not as an absolute truth such as oneness but more of a way to digest the indigestible to understand this process in a very simplistic form. I will say the flower of life does seem to be a good code of a simulation if you consider the deep rooted geometry and ratios it has.

I’m curious what other people have thought about this and what sort of theories you have. Of course this brings in questions about purpose and morality as well. I get the feeling when people have these experiences we tend to apply human reasoning and emotions on the indescribable.

Also for almost ten years I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with this experience. At the end of the day while this may be the most real experience I have ever had I’m still a human and still have an ego living in separation. I still have moments where I feel this “I am “ animate and create the reality that “I am” is experiencing while also feeling incredibly localized to this body and having an individual experience. I’m not sure if it would be possible to live in this state of mind and not feel the separation part of the human existence because fundamentally there needs to be an observer and observed even though it’s all an illusion. The paradox of life, everything matters and nothing matters simultaneously.

The incompleteness theorem shows that some truths are unprovable, and all truths need to be unified and proven as a prerequisite to a unified theory

Hello enlightened ones, please enlighten me..

Do we get answers to all our questions after enlightenment or they become meaningless?