@Rist Ei
your description seem to indicate some sort of dissociative-alike experience
maybe it is not 5th jhana but higher one?
all jhanas up to total cessation are self reflected or produced and are dry or raw.
What i did_
I discover that my body is my self.
If i am not my body then:
I am consciousness and only thinks that this body is mine. Jhanas are the product of consciousness and does not go further than its own nirodha(cessation).
I can't prove it:
But there is a difference and real changes.
The difference is that nirvana or the boundless is real deal. Whatever you do affects your body and mind. Also abiding in boundless seems to transform the self(body included) something better in everything. Body, mind and self is the same thing.
i believe that body can be dematerialized. All signs are pointing towards it.
i don't know if it is dissociative.
This realizing self is rare, i don't expect that others say its normal. In my eyes wanting to get rid of self is insane.
There is no-self refers exactly what it says, there is no-self. I don't find it there its right here...