| | It has happened three times to me many time while meditating and since the first time I knew I had felt it before; I remember having this experience a couple of times throughout my life while trying to sleep and having to wake up and drink a glass of water or something so it would go away because I didn't consider it pleasurable, however, now I'm meditating I think I shouldn't label it so I just went through with it despite my fear and felt it for a couple of minutes.
The experience itself can be described as if I was getting distant from my surroundings. I have a fan in my room and I can hear it while meditating when it's on, it somehow felt like the fan was hundreds of meters away and everything including the walls, the door, the bed just kept getting further away. I wouldn't say I felt I was floating but for a moment I did felt distance from the floor as well. Now you can understand why I wanted to avoid it in the past, when I was little I felt my mothers room getting away and I was scared that if something happened she wouldn't be close to me, also it felt like the beginning of a nightmare.
It happens when I start by focusing on my breath and after I calm my mind I try to keep it free from thoughts while not focusing on anything; particularly during this "focus on nothing and think of nothing" phase. Also, I meditate with my eyes closed, this is not a visual experience. |