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To identify with the universe then is to just identify with everything in your awareness at every moment.

What makes this easy is that everything that arises in awareness is by definition part of "you". By just identifying with yourself you identify with your awareness which is the highest resolution snapshot of the universe you ever get.

Try this experiment. It's something common in meditation practices. Just "note" the sensations that arise in every moment. It might be something really slow like "In that last 1 second I had a sensation of coolness on my arm, then a blink, then a bad event at work."

See how even though these sensations are discrete, they feel like "one" thing, they have almost unlimited resolution. e.g. the volume of data in a feeling of coolness is the same volume of data in "bad event at work".

If you've ever exited a Flow state you've felt something similar. You see that entire snapshot of you in the zone as a single discrete snapshot happening across instant time. The reason flow states stand out is b/c they are *far* more detailed than regular daily sensations.

It's also possible to feel very complex emotions like "My terrible childhood." or "My bad parents and all the time they XYZ." as singular discrete sensations.

(* btw the reason they aren't *pointers* is because remembering the past is the same thing as recreating it.)

The difference between these complex sensations and more simpler ones like "in-breath" or "out-breath" or "heat on arm" is because these simpler ones are more compressible even though they technically occupy the same infinite canvas output space.