What that really means I find it really hard to shut off the rest of my brain and focus on just "being" a dog. There's at least a meta-commentary track running in my mind all the time.

Another commentator mentioned they needed pain or mind games along bondage, yes that's what I didn't mention - I also need some kind of sensory deprivation along (blindfold or so) and at best some noise canceling head phones with a very specific kind of music track that's helps me lose any feelings for the passage of time.

So I'd like puppy play, if I could also "just arrive in the moment" there. I didn't learn that, yet.

But this subdiscussion is diverging quite a bit from the original post. Still, I feel it's still about the same state of mind.