I use to think the self was ultimate reality, but he does not exist without personality.
The self is desire of I AM to experience the earth, but as consciousness returns loses identity. Either the self reincarnates his own consciousness by unconscious desire and operates as waking personality or I AM THE SELF raises sensation and awakes to reality.
What we call the self is dreaming I AM BELIEVING TO BE A PHYSICAL BODY, until unconscious-sensation annihilates conscious-personality.
Weakness of self-awareness reflects by unconscious-sensation and reincarnates, but the center of ORIGINAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS DREAMING WITHIN THE SELF to activate and evolve until harnesses its own dynamic force and recognizes true identity.
THE SELF IS MY ETERNAL ENERGY, ego belongs to the matrix, they operate like father/child, but child must return to father to know who I AM in reality.