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Idealist here. Non-dualist — I am not a being who experiences, I *am* the experiences. Both internal thoughts and external perceptions are experiences. Consciousness, perception, and experience, and the world that is perceived, are all made of the same stuff. To say that consciousness is the universe experiencing itself is to say that the universe is consciousnesses.
I'm not a solipsist, other consciousnesses appear to exist. I am not a magical thinker, there is a shared reality that we can't manipulate through thought alone. I am in my own universe, distinct and different from yours, though our universes appear to have an amazing amount of overlap. My universe is an ongoing act of creation, my will brings my universe into being and influences yours. When I sleep my universe disappears. When I die my universe will be gone forever, existing only as ripples in that of others.
There's nothing here!