“The real YOU behind the face is everything you see, hear, touch, and sense. So the headless man, to have no head, to go out of your head, to lose your mind, is in a way always characteristic of the wise man, because he has come back to his original emptiness which is behind the face.”
— Alan Watts 
Reminds me of On Having No Head by Douglas Harding
Confusing but clear
Yes. I practice this, but there are cultures that teach about how you can be fooled by your senses. Losing your mind is important to being able to control whether or not it is necessary to do so in a given moment. Optionality of consciousness
