Ego Loss?

I'm sure some of you have to be into psychedelics.
I don't want this thread to be deleted, so please don't mention the name, or anything specific.
But anyway, can someone explain to me what ego loss IS? In lamen terms? I think i've expirienced it, but a very light version, and I'd like to try to understand the whole shibang.
Also, not sure if they're related, but, Lately, (especially while smoking pot or other), I've slowly been turning my mind back into a child's. I think you know what I mean, how you could look at something like a bicycle, and take it for granted, and then look at it like a child, and see it as completely wondrous, new, incredible thing, a two wheeled VEHICLE! Incredible! And how so many things in life can be looked at without pre-knoledge, to gain insight as to the true nature of it. Anyone else expirience any epiphanies or such like this?

I'm a Buddhist, I've been meditating for over 20 years and things like ego death are of particular interest to me.

It happens after certain kinds of transcendental experiences, particularly to meditators who are on the path to enlightenment. I have to speak very broadly here or this would be long and dull, but enlightenment is not just a state that someone might reach, but an understanding about the true nature of reality. However, it isn't the understanding that 'gives you' ego death. You don't suddenly understand reality and think, "ahh, no need for ego then." It goes after enlightenment, it just dies of its own accord. You lose desires, you dont feel the need to fulfill anything or go anywhere. But not in an empty, lazy way, it's a positive state. If people insult you it means nothing, how you look is nothing...etc..it's a whole set of things that happen together. I would be interested to see if it has happened to you, it's certainly not impossible.

Could you describe how you feel and what's leading you to say what you do?

MelT

^ I believe that's pretty much it. You just lose your sense of individuality according to societies views, and find yourself fitting directly in with the larger reality of nature and the universe.

i have expirenced ego loss before. i wish i could explain and talk about it, but i dont even know where to begin.

it all happened this one day when i was on lots of drugs in my friends basement... the most mind-fucking day of my life probly.

okay, i'll try to explain the expirence. i began to feel very very uneasy at some point of the party.. i could feel a change happeneing. next thing i know, im laying on the floor with nothing but memmories that werent my own. let me explain more, i rememberd visions.. but not being seen thru my eyes. it was as if i had the memmory of a fly that had been in the room, because i rememebr seeing my body on the ground, and the vision was from up on the ceiling. after i found myself laying on the floor, i cant even begin to explain how flat-out simple the world was to me. it was honestly heartbreaking. i was looking at everything as if it werre thru the eyes of nature.i thought about myself, and saw me for who i was. it was horrible to think about myself in that way, it was tough to block out all thoughts and worries. and i was thinking about everything as if it were thru the mind of nature. ive had some intenseeeee expirences, but none have ever come close to this one.

I like to describe it as when the boundaries which you imagine to separate yourself from the universe disappear, because you realize they were never there to begin with (except in your head). In a way, ego loss is a loss of self. But at the same time you're not losing anything, you just discover that you never had it to begin with.

In such a state (at least in the times I've experinced it) it becomes impossible to judge others, because you realize that as part of the universe there's nothing separating them from you.