Are there two of me?

I wrote recently ago about the witness. In that instance it referred to someone seeing an act that someone else performed. You are running down the road and a friend sees you. They witnessed the act of you running. So what? We are all familiar with this concept. Are you familiar with yourself as the witness to your own experience? Not your mind telling you, “I am running down the road” but your consciousness experiencing you running down the road. The later takes place in a space of No Mind. The moment you start thinking it is lost. It is not the experience of loosing time because you drifted off thinking about a vacation or some time in the past. You come back and you have run a long way with no recollection of how you got there. Not that. That is just more of the same mind dominated insanity. The mental chatter has not stopped. What I am writing about is the height of presence without the mental noise. It may not sound like a big deal but it is. It is the gateway to knowing. The witness is the real you below the layers of ego and self delusion. If you experience this state of being through meditation (running can be that) you likely realize three things.

1) the mind is constantly active like an excited puppy jumping all over the place
2) there are moments of stillness
3) there is something else there, a witness

The third point can be the start of awakening. If something else is there are there now two of me? Only one can be real so one must be a delusion. Here is a hint. The one that must have the latest pair of cool shoes, or car or gets angry, hurt and resentful, that one is not real. You made him / her up. The other one is the real you. The witness that you do not control or make up stories about. That is your real SELF. Endless compassion, love and understanding. Sure sounds better then that imposteur you keep introducing to other people.