The usual engaged immersion in the life-world is thick qualia but the thinking self can always detach from it, either naturally or pathologically. This comes about whenever there is a big shock, but also by choosing to think about experience in a certain way - imagining that this is meditation. You imagine that you can detach from thinking itself in the same way, except that detachment itself is a kind of thought. You can be alienated from what you were thinking a moment ago, as if thought were some thing that has attached to you. These are games of thought, ways of playing with the you inside of the thinking. That's all the you that there is, an optional accessory to the life-world thinking experience.