In immersive experience, we may say (afterward) that “I forgot myself.”

Or, Flow of engagement carries oneself along, as if given to the Flow from appeal, from drive, preceding oneself, beyond oneself.

Effacious sutomaticity of engagement in a game of skill (e.g., skillful tennis) or playing an instrument well lacks overt representation in doing of what you are doing. It’s said that one’s “in The Zone,” as if some sway of efficacy beyond oneself is prevailing. “I” becomes the vista, the story, the playing.

Articulation of that, which is retrospective, pertains to a background dimension of oneself, a higher, deeper, Flow of being self (Self) which is beyond self-represent-
ation. That Self expresses itself as the Flow of being enacting of the act, the emerging of phenomena, the playing of the play.

Saying is a representation of prior showing itself. The “I” of “I forgot myself” is representational self articulating something of pre-representation “I” (Self) showing itSelf from itSelf as self-efficacious, self-emergent presencing or being the Flow of appellancy or appellant self-efficacy.

William James called that the “I/me” difference, which has been empirically corroborated for child development.

This S/s difference is integral to phenomenology: presencing of who’s present (or what’s present, as if “of” it self-showing), as the other shows themself from themself; and (analogously) things “show themselves” as if autonomously from themselves (but really, thanks to Self-efficacy of one’s ability of apprehension and appreciation).

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