meditation wierdness..

[yukanaoe]

ok so i found something awesome! I was meditating last night visualizing that I was underwater in this beautiful ocean! swimming not needing to hold my breath. its almost as good as actually being in the water! well during my meditation last night. with nothing i noticed to prompt it everything went black. I felt myself being drugged down and my lungs and heart got tight and i felt my nose wrinkle like a snarl. i was kinda fearful but not enough to break my meditation. I was able to bring back the light and continued in my bliss. but it was very wierd.

any ideas? i cant make sense of it.

[Caelia]

Re: meditation wierdness..

When we enter a meditation state, when we become too aware we start to feel that "crash". Think of it like the flying sensation before falling asleep and then "crashing".

[yukanaoe]

Re: meditation wierdness..

what? i don't understand

[Caelia]

Re: meditation wierdness..

You entered a meditative state and kicked yourself back to your normal state.

[yukanaoe]

Re: meditation wierdness..

like i should have embraced the darkness?

[Caelia]

Re: meditation wierdness..

It is common to have "altered feelings" in meditation. I won't go into why here, but basically go with it and shield yourself in the future.

[yukanaoe]

Re: meditation wierdness..

ok so how do i shield myself?

[Caelia]

Re: meditation wierdness..

Here's a good 'un from another forum:

http://www.paganlibrary.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3315&f=45

If that fails use a protective stone or circle yourself with a few.

[yukanaoe]

Re: meditation wierdness..

ty i appreciate that

and where can we get into why we have altered feelings in meditation. i'm intrigued

[Caelia]

Re: meditation wierdness..

A lot of my info comes from personal experience and has a slew of anecdotes (my first few years were very interesting, imho). For that reason I'm a bit stumped on books that may discuss it.

One that comes to mind is The Art and Science of Raja Yoga by Sami Kriyananda. Each chapter has a section about meditation and it goes over altered states a bit. It also comes with a cd with a pretty decent guided meditation. Just ignore the New Age stuff about ancient societies with hover cars and whatnot.

[LiadanWillows]

Re: meditation wierdness..

It almost sounds like your mind truly started to believe you were swimming and possibly drowning, your mind went into a state of panic. Then you reminded yourself that you were safe and this isn't "real" and your mind calmed and you resumed your meditation.