Death, Consciousness, Nondual Perception

Have you ever had the experience of fully appreciating a piece of music to the point that instead of 'hearing' the music, you actually
'Became' the music? It's like your sense of self or personality temporarily dissolves and instead of hearing the music, you are the music
as it plays?

Or perhaps seeing a tree.. or anything... and becoming merged with the seeing or the tree such that you could feel the 'existence' of the
tree itself, but there is nobody there seeing it... you are not there seeing the tree, you ARE the tree, you ARE the seeing/seen.

Well I had such experiences years ago but recently I had more intense experiences of such....

Some days back I was contemplating on death. What I mean is I'm pondering on 'How does it feel like to die or be dead?'... Then I
'pretended' to die... and suddenly, it feels like "I" completely died and disappeared.. But instead of losing consciousness, awareness turns
out to be everything I see and felt, the whole world is there, except without a "me". It's like the pure existence of the world but without a
center or a "me" in it. However a short moment later the karmic propensity of perceiving a "separate self" comes back like an entity in the
head and 'I' 'lost' the experience... This is described very precisely by Thusness in his earlier stages of experiences, "The rest of the
journey is the unfolding and further refining of this experience of Total Presence but somehow there is always this blockage, this
something preventing me from recapturing the experience. It is the inability to fully die into total Presence..." and "Somehow something
is blocking the natural flow of my innermost essence and preventing me from re-living the experience. Presence is still there but there is
no sense of totality. It was both logically and intuitively clear that I is the problem. It is the I that is blocking; it is the I that is the limit; it
is the I that is the boundary but why cant I do away with it?"

Anyway I learnt from this that 'death' is not as scary as we might think and in fact is quite blissful.

Then a few days later a similar experience came but was much more intense... it feels as though I'm entering into a different state of
consciousness... and my body and mind is like totally dissolving and fading away... and I'm 'forcefully' absorbed into what I am seeing
and hearing and feeling... it feels strange and I don't know how to describe it. There is sort of a shift in consciousness like entering an
altered state but yet it is not a trance. There is complete awareness or consciousness but the "self" or "center" dissolves and fades out of
existence. What remains is everything as consciousness. Actually it's not even "consciousness" that we might think of or "consciousness"
in the Buddhist sense because this "consciousness" is not "consciousness conscious OF something"... rather it feels like pure existence
itself the "Pure Beingness", yet not limited to the sense of "Beingness" or "Amness" (which I had past glimpses of what it is like, the
impersonal pure sense of existence or consciousness) but rather it is the "pure existence" of the seeing and hearing, i.e. of the "world".

It feels very different from our normal way of perceiving things but at the same time it's pretty much the same. What I mean is the things
that are seen or heard are still pretty much the same as before but the experience contrasts with our normal (or abnormal) way of
perceiving things "at a distance" and "with a self" and also with a lack of clarity.

This time the experience is longer but still I 'went back to normal' after some time. Also, it appears that I 'time travelled' during my
meditation... I sat one hour, second half hour passed by like less than a few minutes... its as if I did not perceive the change in time.. sort
of timeless? I only knew how long has past after looking at the clock.

Anyone had such experiences to share? - Edited by An Eternal Now