Asking us about it probably won't help because by reading the responses you'll be thinking it about it. Thinking about it, you'll be more more self-aware of the problem of being too self-aware.

Download yourself into the G. W. Bush library mainframe.

I'd say your mistaking thinking for awareness. This is a common but pretty serious mistake, in my opinion. Awareness is the direct and immediate perception of phenomena in this moment: body sensations, thoughts, feelings, sensory input, moods, etc. It is *not* the same thing as getting entangled in long chains of reasoning, imagining, figuring out, reminiscing, or any of the other forms of "lost in thought" that we're familiar with. If you're actually becoming self aware, your thoughts occur as something "flowing through" an open space of consciousness, not as something that you get lost in and tangled up within. What you're talking about is just a matter of having a lot of viewpoints arguing with each other in your head. Awareness practice involves repeatedly bringing yourself *back* from being lost-in-thought, not compounding it and going deeper. To be able to observe thought, to watch it flow by, allows it to settle down on it's own. When that happens, mental clarity increases and "overthinking" decreases. Mostly we try to "figure everything out". What happens is that we get entangled in all of the problems inherent in conceptuality instead. If the mind is allowed to quiet down on it's own (by being watched mindfully), it begins to engage in a different kind of operation altogether -- intuitive leaps, imagination, creativity, and integration occur as it's allowed to soak in the solvent of simple here-and-now awareness. .

try thinking about anything else but yourself b4 you disappear up your own arsehole