Joke aside I think people doesn't give proper credit to jaeger pilots and how strong their sense of self is to not go all ghost in the shell in there the minute their entire memories and personalities get flowed with a second set of you know, memories and personalities.
It's a thing I also attribute to the fact that the drift doesn't outright show every detail of a pilot's life to another, but rather allows some glimpses to pass between them as the neural connection takes hold. I think the memories the drift shows depend also on the pilots and the possible shared experiences that could help them find common ground. A good and easy explanation, considering you don't want your pilots to go to battle in the middle of an identity crisis, right?
It also means things like, if Chuck survived Operation Pitfall, he wouldn't ghost-drift with Pentecost because Pentecost didn't take his memories or ego to the drift. Which means that some pilots can drift out of their skill to accept others completely and remove their own existences out of the equation, living so actively in the present it was enough to hold the connection. A strong sense of trust and acceptance and complete selflessness.
You, your co-pilot and the jaeger in there but you need to know which is which at all times. Based on how emotionally smart one has to be to differentiate those three elements in the middle of a battle, I can say that all the best j-pilots are insanely good at managing their own minds.
