[jcampbell1]

Did you ever experience feelings or have thoughts that were overwhelmingly lovely? Like only you can see the true beauty of the path you are on? I dabble in combining sleep deprivation with multi day fasting. Dream processes start to kick in, and sometimes the copying from the brain’s 1 day RAM to the brain’s long storage happens while awake. This process is only supposed to happen during REM sleep, but when it happens in awake real-time it feels like a spiritual experience. You look at a bird and all the sudden that bird is integrated with all prior knowledge in a way that makes it feel like a religious vision. This brain race condition feels like being one with the great spirit or something.

[alwaysrunning]

Unfortunately not. It's a very strange feeling. You are awake but your brain is so depleted that you can't make sense, you see things that you would normally know would not be real but because you are so out of it you don't realize for a couple minutes that trees really can't talk. I have heard of other runners who have very spriritual experiences though.