What you imagine you are is not what you are

The conflation of imagination and sensations is what you appear to be. We call that attention. Without imagination there would be no attention. You would not have the capacity for self awareness. There would be no attention, no knowing of being. You are not that attention. That attention is an appearance in you. The two disparate appearances of imagination and sensation are appearing in awareness simultaneously. What you call experience is actually a conflation of thoughts (a form of imagination), feelings and sensations. What appears in awareness is an overlay of disparate appearances which we call imagination and sensation. The overlay is dependent on awareness. The overlay is not separate from awareness. It is the means by which anything is known at a distance. You are that extension and all that appears in that extension.