"Final Test"

Nobody knows what you were doing thirteen minutes ago, not even YOU! Oh, with a gun to your head you do, eh? But you might be lying and the "interrogator" would know, so don't try it.

If you are VERY typical, your mental response was regarding your body. Everyone but the truly, ordinarily dozing, doodle-head could provide an ANSWER that was reasonably correct, at least to the degree necessary to not be called a liar by the interrogator. Perhaps you were just reading OTHER crap on the internet or emails. Perhaps you were watching TV or listening to music. Perhaps you were sipping your coffee or tea or beer. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...

But, please notice, the VERY typical ALWAYS gravitate - as in falling down into the ordinary, like apples falling down into the dirt - to the BODY. But, in this "Final Test" - as usual - it is never about the body, your boring body - hey we've all got one, so who wants to talk about THAT? It is ALWAYS about the mind, your amazing, extraordinary three-pound lump of gray and white goo between your ears (called the most complex organ in the known universe) that got really "excited" (in the sense that the frontal lobe neurons fired up in that peculiarly unique way while reading the subject line and the first few words here), which INSTANTLY blocked out of short-term consciousness and memory the "Right Answer" to my statement/question: "Nobody knows what you were doing thirteen minutes ago, not even YOU!

Whatever the body was doing on this planet - operating for the most part mechanically, and thanks for that! - the conscious part of the mind where thought occurs was not doing that, it was doing something else, and that something else is almost always just outside your view, like a stranger who lives in your own house, of whom you've only caught minor glimpses at best. By the time you turn your head to observe him straight on, he's already gone.