18/08/2026
Metacognition is the moment you become aware that you are thinking.
Instead of automatically following every thought, reaction or story your mind produces, you create a little space between you and what is happening in your mind.
You begin to notice:
🧠 the thought before you follow it
🧠 the emotion before you react to it
🧠 the patterns your mind keeps returning to
🧠 the difference between experiencing something and observing the experience
This ability is called metacognition — essentially, thinking about your own thinking.
Neuroscience links metacognitive processes to networks involving the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions responsible for monitoring, reflection and cognitive control.
But the idea itself is much older than neuroscience.
For centuries, contemplative traditions and philosophers have explored a similar human capacity: stepping outside the automatic stream of thought long enough to witness it.
And that distinction is fascinating.
You can have a thought without becoming the thought.
You can experience something while simultaneously noticing yourself experiencing it.
At SOMA, we are interested in these spaces of awareness.
During a SOMA Light Experience, rhythmic light and sound create an unusual sensory environment. With your eyes closed, the brain may generate changing patterns, colours, sensations, imagery or shifts in subjective experience.
We don’t tell you what you should experience.
We invite you to notice.
What appears?
What changes?
Where does your attention go?
And what happens when you simply observe?
Perhaps one of the most interesting things about exploring consciousness isn’t what the mind can produce.
It’s realizing that you can watch it happen.
SOMA Light Experience
Science. Presence. Human experience.
