I have found this to be my experience sometimes…

Awakening to the Dream (Paperback)

by Leo Hartong

“Witnessing is not something we progress to. It is not about self-improvement or mental states. It is about recognizing that which is already fully present; this presence observes both the ‘I’ and its states while, at the same time, it remains unaffected. If we see this witnessing as a new way to make us feel good, we are back at square one. Instead of identifying with the conceptual ego, we have now identified with the conceptual witness – still an independent, identified entity, merely in different garb. From this more cushioned perspective, it’s easy to get trapped again in the same old illusion. As soon as the witness has become an object or concept, it becomes part of the witnessed. The real witness will never be an object of experience, but always remains that which is aware of the experience. Objectified, it becomes the ‘new ego’; non-objectified, it merges with Pure awareness – that which we so intimately are that we cannot get at it; like an arrow, able to point in all directions, but not at itself.”