There are mystical experiences I’ve had, where it feels like I’m “seeing” a Reality that is “realer than real”–although, I’m not “seeing” it through my eyes but through my mind. It’s more of an understanding.

It feels so real, and like the life that I previously led was just a dream.

I’m so sure in my revelation that, this sensation, once attained will be impossible to lose, but as surely as the revelation comes, as soon as I “return”, it becomes a distant memory.

I explore the idea of spiritual amnesia in my book, Why Does Reality Exist?, and suggest in it that spiritual amnesia is the result of this world being (constructed).

That is, Reality seems so real in whatever state you are in, until it all is reinvented. When you enter a state of ecstasy, you also enter a state of spiritual amnesia as well, but only towards that previous dream you were in–that one we call “life”. So, spiritual amnesia is simply the toggle that moves us from one state of consciousness to the next.

This, however, begs the question: which state is closer to truth? Intuitively, the mystical state, as fanciful as it seems when one “returns”, feels “realer than real”, but is it?

Although it’s tempting to say that “all states of consciousness” convey different, but equal, forms of truth, in my view, mystical states convey a higher truth in terms of spiritual awareness (although not in terms of daily living). We become more aware of the actual nature of Reality.

One way this occurs is through vast increases in creativity and conceptual thinking:

Conceptual thinking is defined as an alteration to the nature and content of one's internal thought stream. This alteration predisposes a user to think thoughts which are no longer primarily comprised of words and linear sentence structures. Instead, thoughts become equally comprised of what is perceived to be incredibly detailed renditions of the innately understandable and internally stored concepts for which no words exist. Thoughts cease to be spoken by an internal narrator and are instead “felt” and intuitively understood.

For example, if a person was to think of an idea such as a "chair" during this state, one would not hear the word as part of an internal thought stream, but would feel the internally stored, pre-linguistic and innately understandable data which comprises the specific concept labelled within one's memory as a "chair". These conceptual thoughts are felt in a comprehensive level of detail that feels as if it is unparalleled within the primarily linguistic thought structure of everyday life. This is sometimes interpreted by those who undergo it as some "higher level of understanding". PsychonautWiki