It is in "myself inasmuch as I am only a thinking thing" (ibid).; that is, in myself as a whole — which requires unified consciousness of myself as a whole.
"Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence" (Morning Hours, p. 85 (translation slightly altered)/Gesammelte Schriften, 3/2, p. 118).
When I regained consciousness, I found myself in an Isis hospital with Iraqi doctors.
"I heard an explosion and I immediately lost consciousness and found myself in the hospital," he said.
A survivor from the Badr mosque, Ahmed al-Gabri, said: "I fell on the ground and when I regained consciousness I found myself sleeping on a lake of blood".
Having written "here" instead of "hear" in a fleeting moment of lapsed concentration – I'd like to think autocorrect had a role to play but I may have to admit to momentary abdication of consciousness – I found myself castigated by a friend who was far more forthcoming in her criticism than I had been some weeks previously.
"I'd left bits of my consciousness, bits of myself on so many customs' screens, a copy of me could easily have been formed from those samples, a me composed of 50percentt of my person," he says, pursuing the theme of bilocation.
"After regaining consciousness, I found myself in hospital and I asked to see my parents.
"He was slipping in and out of consciousness - I introduced myself as a first aider, managed to get his wife to reassure him that an ambulance was on its way and kept him lying down in the recovery position under paramedics came". Another witness - who happened to be a medical student - noticed Rebecca's ability to manage the crisis.
"I recovered consciousness and brushed myself off, and I said, 'Yes, I think I can fit that in,'" Mitchell said.
