hridaya
Finland
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Posted - Nov 24 2016 : 11:43:42 PM Show Profile Email Poster Edit Topic Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Message Delete Topic
Hello!
As a child I remember having experiences where my body would feel numb and tingly and simultaneously very thin and really, really thick or swollen. Time would also seem to be both speeded up and slowed down. So all movements and sounds seemed to happen both in slow-motion and really quickly. This would usually happen while on the edge of sleep, together with a feeling of falling down a bottomless tunnel. Sometimes it happened during the day too, without the falling down a tunnel thing.
After restarting my on-again off-again meditation practice (again), this has started happening occationally while lying down after the 15 min deep meditation. It has happened before too. A few years ago while practising kriya it would happen when going deeper into stillness than usual (or after).
Perhaps this is seen as scenery by AYP, but i'm still curious to hear if this is common or at least recognized by someone. I have never heard anyone talk about this. It used to worry me when I was young, but I've come to accept it as just something that happens.
Anyway, do you know what this is and/or has this happened to you?
Wolfgang
Germany
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Posted - Nov 25 2016 : 12:53:33 AM Show Profile Email Poster Visit Wolfgang's Homepage Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
Hi hridaya !
I can associate with your description. Your spirit body and your physical body are separating and you are consciously experiencing this (near) separation. I guess this can also be associated with "astral travel". Another term that can be going in this direction is called "lucid dreaming".
If it happens unexpectedly during the day you should be grounding yourself.
It it happens during or after meditation, then I would not worry - it can lead to interesting experiences.
My 2 cents, take care
Wolfgang
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Ecdyonurus
Switzerland
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Posted - Nov 25 2016 : 05:08:58 AM Show Profile Email Poster Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
Hi Hridaya, I had similar experiences several times during practices, in both pranayama and meditation. As a child also occasionally. I never considered that as a relevant thing - just a funny experience, a state of consciuosness I sometimes fall into for some minutes.
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jusmail
India
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Posted - Nov 26 2016 : 05:31:49 AM Show Profile Email Poster Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
Hypnogogic sleep is another term you might want to research.
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hridaya
Finland
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Posted - Nov 26 2016 : 09:11:29 AM Show Profile Email Poster Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
Hi!
I appreciate your answers. It's nice to know I'm not just wired weird.
The experiences when falling asleep as a child could be explained as hypnagogic. Still this explanation doesn't really fit with the experiences while wide awake and able to interact normally with physical reality and other people. Also the hypnagogic state seems to often include hallucinations of various kinds which doesn't really fit my experience (while awake) - just contradictory distortions of time and bodily dimensions.
I've tried to explain what was going on to a flatmate while it was happening. He thougt I seemed completely normal and had not experienced anything similar.
I guess it makes sense that this could be a transitional state between the purely physical and astral. I've read about time flowing very differently in the astral realms. Then again the hypnagogic state could be called a transitional state too... Anyway, I think I agree with Ecdyonurus that this isn't really a relevant thing, atleast not in a AYP context.
Still it's an interesting experience. I think simultaneously experiencing opposites, especially at a young age has shaped my thinking quite a bit. It probably made me more curious about altered states too.
