Question: Is Presence something you can sense?

Reply:
Sensations, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are phenomenal.

Presence is non-phenomenal.

Thus, how can you ‘sense’ that which is non-phenomenal?
It is not possible to sense presence, as if presence is a phenomenal sensation.
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When we contemplate the question: Am I? Or Am I present? The inevitable answer is absolutely yes.
Did we reach this reply by going to the senses and sensing presence, or did we go to our direct experience of presence, which is non-phenomenal?
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Where did we go to reach this unequivocal answer?
We went to presence itself and not to the senses.
We did not travel in time or in thought. The knowingness of presence is an apperception. A direct knowingness.

Why direct? Because there is no reliance on thought or time. No reliance on the senses.
There is a certainty about presence. A certainty that bypasses the mind.

It is presence which knows itself and knows that it is.
Presence is self-knowing.

The same applies to awareness. I know that I am aware. It is an apperception, whereby awareness is directly (effortlessly and noumenally) knowing that it is knowing.

No mind is involved in this direct knowingness.