When I was about seven years old I was exuberantly playing with some distant cousins at their house. At one point I was alone in the back yard running around kicking a ball. I came to the stoop and stopped and looked back toward the long slope of the back yard. The sun was setting. My body vibrated. Time stopped. The experience, without the words, was that I existed, me! I had a body and I was on a planet that related to a fiery ball in the sky. When re-membering this the experience is as if I am there. It is my first memory of actually being in a body and of being conscious. Is this a common experience?
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