I like your description. It's similar to how I describe meditation to people who have no experience with it, although I usually say: When you're focused on so

I like your description. It's similar to how I describe meditation to people who have no experience with it, although I usually say: When you're focused on something interesting, you easily are able to follow the stream of your own consciousness. It feels like one solid river of focus. It's only when your mind is bored that your stream of consciousness unravels. It's that unraveling that we tend to avoid and disregard. We don't wish to carefully examine those moments between focus on interesting things. Meditation forces those unravelings and teaches us how to recognize them, observe them more clinically, and manage a higher (meta) level of control over them.