Good "footprints on a beach" analogy

[OldManCorcoran]

I thought this was really good because the waves in an ocean metaphor fails on the front that waves have a sort of separate continuation.

So the other metaphor is that there is a beach, and on the beach footprints appear. There aren't any feet so you have to just picture that the beach is doing it to itself... Each footprint is some sort of experience, so for example you might be seeing the color blue right now and that would be a footprint (the entire experience of the seeing of that blue). As your day unfolds, each moment is another footprint appearing on the beach. The new footprint does not contain any element of the last footprint, both footprints are just different indentations in the beach.

I find this quite a bit better.

The beach would be "I" would be consciousness of course. And to be clear on that, it is also the case that "I" is not conscious of anything at all. It is consciousNESS, and consciousness is very different than "conscious of". And that is the entire beach and our lives etc play out as a bunch of footprints happening in that.