imagine you woke up one day and you were seeing through someone’s eyes, hearing everything they heard, feeling everything they felt, even being affected by their emotional state.
at first it would be incredibly weird, but as the days pass you gradually start to get used to it and their behaviour becomes familiar, even reassuring.
after a while you would get so good at predicting their actions that it wouldn’t even feel like you are a passenger along for the ride, but that you are controlling their actions, although occasionally they would still take you by surprise leaving you baffled as to why they would say this or do that.
you would feel protective of your host, especially since you feel their pain and emotional turmoil, but sometimes you would hate them, for their clumsiness, their awkwardness, their repeated failure. sometimes they might lash out and do things that hurt themselves (and you!) leaving you helplessly wondering why.
yeah this is a metaphor for consciousness, you’re already living like this.