I have started meditating very recently, everything is good, it's actually enjoyable unlike what i was expecting, I heard of people getting mystical experiences or later on getting impressive synchronicities that have started to rain on them after they 've started to meditate, any of you have such interesting experiences along such lines?
>>41015283alongst of such lines
>>41015283While meditating, sometimes I can see through my eyelids. And maybe also in the dark, with a greater field of vision, behind myself, through objects, further away, etc. It find it weird.
>>41015531Keep expanding it.
>>41015283I'm still a complete novice, but sometimes I see images flash through my mind like hypnagogic hallucinations. Random things like an old wooden rocking horse, an eagle, a lotus flower. One time I was meditating and saw a huge cross in a dark void suspended over water, a bit like Salvador Dali's Crucifixion. It seemed to grow larger as I grew smaller underneath it, and I could feel weight pushing down on my back. I haven't experienced anything like it since then, it's really the only mystical thing that's happened to me.
>>41015283guys you can get halucinatiosn very easy at all times just go into the dark an press your fingers into your eyes(not too hard)
>>41015531Just open your eyes dog. Open eyed meditation is goated
>>41015531That has happened sometimes, while trying some memes, maybe "light being" ????? practice???? Sometimes I drift off into full movement with the Holy Spirit: He guides me directly to something in another "realm"? I become semi-lucid occasionally.
After 2 years of meditation I could totally relax my body and breathing in less than 10 minutes, this total relaxation could easily take me away into sleep but keeping my posture erect and my awareness sharp I could stay awake, so many times I entered into dreams/astral projections/whatever.The most common I experienced were old forgotten memories from my childhood popping up, many of them were emotionally charged, I viewed this experience as a way of "solving" by letting go of those memories.If I stayed for a long time in meditation (over an hour) I think that I viewed past life experiences, some of them were in great detail.Other times I got visited by voices or entities which wanted to talk to me about various subjects.
>>41015283I love how in all my travels just about nobody has gotten to samahdi by listening to their words and experiences
>>41015283When im in serious need, I'll find myself entering much deeper meditative states. This first happened to me at university. >be sitting on floor>legs crossed, palms in lap, eyes mostly closed>room begins pulsing different colors>almost like waves, or a kaleidoscope>mind clearing intensifies>more and more vivid>suddenly, and orb appears in the center of my vision>small at first, growing larger as though it is moving toward me>also pulsing colors, however in the opposite direction of the room>instinctively believe this is a being sent to aid me>pose to it my question/topic>it responds, not with words, but by a sudden transition into a dreamscape>first time this happened was a forest of colossal trees, with an sickly yellow sky and pink streams>wander through forest, seeing visions, information relevant to my purpose for meditation >have an epiphany>thunderclap>and im back, seated on floor of room I dont know what the orb is, and it doesn't speak to me with words, yet I understand it. It only shows up when I am meditating on something which is having a major emotional or rational impact on me. It immediately made me a believer in transcendental meditation.
>>41015283Dunno if this is beginner stuff but one day I realized how I became basically blind and deaf without knowing. As in, I would see or hear no actual thing anymore, just the crude representation of those things. I think they call it rupa or something like that. Raw information vs interpreted information
>>41019887Eh? What do you mean? Please explain.
>>41020882stillness is poorly taught in generalif you dont get stillness right, you never get samahdijust putting in a lot of time trying to stay still isnt necessarily going to do itthe focus on what you're doing needs to be cultivated welllong chains of uninterrupted awareness is a key targetthe movement within stillness is contained therein
>>41022509Ah it's you olfactory anon, I understand your post now.It's funny that you replied to me right now, I just opened this thread after training 15 minutes of anapanasati just how you have taught.Stretching my frozen diaphragm to go deeper is hard and I know that it will take time but I will stick to it.The rate at which my mind produces thoughts decreases when I get into really good slow and deep breathing.Thank you.
>>41015283other than bodily vibration type sensations occasionally, every now and then I get a flash of imagery in my minds eye. i wear a blindfold, but the images are as vivid as eyesight. just for a split moment thorandom shit mostly. idk
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>>41022693establish the habit solidly, fren
>>41025528so you label your meditation sessions as "travels"?
>>41015531I was able to do the same thing after awhile. I could see through my eyelids, roof and see the stars as I would go to sleep.
>>41015531What types of meditation did you do before you could start seeing through your eyelids and for how long did you meditate? I personally was meditating to the Gateway/ hemisync for about a month and started to see through my eyelids, roof and see the stars!
>>41025584nah not necessarilyyou can usually tell about how far someone has gotten by how they describe things or things they deem important when conveying the message
When I was younger and meditating on the daily I had an experience where…The darkness behind my eyelids…I noticed a light from ‘above’. Without moving my head I looked up, and saw a hole. Like realizing you’re just sitting in a small, hollow, almost claustrophobic cylinder. I climbed up and out, and saw a beautiful mountain with beautiful scenery surrounding it. I began to grow interested, I wanted to stay, but that sensation of wanting to ‘stay’ pulled me back into the cylinder. In another instance, I was focusing on relaxing my body and brain. I found one particular knot of tension, and when I relaxed it, a voice went ‘surprise!!’ In my head. Vaguely female, like a little girl. That alarmed me. Another time, I was relaxing into meditation, and felt as if struck by a bolt of lightning. I was indoors. Another time, it was like the reverse—from the bottom of my spine into my brain, creating a temporary ‘lubricated thought’ state of being. Like my brain sat down for the first time ever. These instances intrigue me more than astral projection in all honesty.
Every time I sit to meditate I always immediately see eyes around me looking at me, if I stay long enough there sitting in the dark I may go to strange places like what seem to be other planets. Sometimes I go into fantasy-themed places with elves and dwarves, this happens 90% of the time I sit to meditate.Can someone tell me what to do? How do I achieve all this blissful states e.t.c.? I sit upright with no back support and I am always wide awake when I meditate, my breathing is calm although I think it's not that deep.
>>41025697White light and Ajna meditations, for maybe five hours in total. I also used my own affirmations about God's power and attributes.
>>41027382>this happens 90% of the time I sit to meditate.this is why master Yang at ymaa wrote in a couple of his meditation books to not pay attention to the sceneryyou wind up on these tangents and the tangents get habituatedwhat you need to do to counter this is keep your awareness fixed and present and dont allow these tangentsperchance they begin, you need to return your awareness immediately and abandon the tangentachieving blissful states basically arises when the body is harmonized to the point where the pineal-pituitary axis is harmonized and well functioning, activating a top down endocrine harmonizationone should experience accelerations of the metabolism when this threshold is crossedbut, if your mind & awareness are off other places, you kinda preclude these things from happening
>>41022509> Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.> C.G. Jung