Brilliant writing as always. What caught my attention most is how elegantly you braid culture, cinema, belief, and neurology into a single lived question about identity and continuity, and how quietly brave it is to describe an experience in which the self briefly steps out of the room while the body carries on.

Your writing makes the abstract terrifyingly concrete, not as spectacle but as inquiry, asking what it means to be conscious, to remember, to exist at all when narrative itself can fracture. There is something profoundly generous in laying that uncertainty bare, in refusing false closure while still moving forward, and I am grateful for the clarity, wit, and humility with which you shared it. you, my friend, are an amazing writer.