I have heard testimony from meditators that they can watch their thoughts go by like bubbles floating in the air. I have been meditating for many years and have never come close to being able to do that. If my mind wanders, I will eventually become aware of it and be able to recall what I had been thinking about, but I can’t imagine that I can think of something and at the exact same time observe myself thinking. My perception of consciousness is that it is indivisible. There is not one of me thinking and another of me observing me thinking.

Is there really something to this idea of being observer and observed at the same time, or is it just a matter of reducing the time between having a thought and then becoming of aware of it?