I'll do my best. I should also encourage any other newbies to go through this exercise, since wanting extra attention for reporting purposes feels like engaging the practice more strongly.
This is mostly from yesterday's sit and this morning's lying since I wasn't sleeping anyway.
I'm getting tactile vibrations during the day when I take a moment to relax at work. I also noticed these as soon as I sat down. They feel to be on the surface of my body in my legs, arms, torso, back, and face. Fairly gentle and in the 5 Hz range. They'll last from 10 seconds (when first sitting yesterday) to several minutes (5 minute break from work two days ago).
back to yesterday's sit: in my basement, lights off, eyes closed, facing toward a small window. It began as many do with dim lighting which I described like an urban night sky. I see fuzzy boarders to the lights like what you might make with a simple computer paint program.
The light and dark areas began to swirl and translate and my muscles conspicuously relaxed. This progresses to the blobby areas shrinking to nothingness, only to be replaced by another one which formed from the boarders. Like a tunnel, but it doesn't have depth. I also see bars of this luminousness, also fuzzy, moving across my perceptual field.
At this point, the ~5 Hz vibrations came back in my cheeks. I think I hear them too, but I might just be recalling music... It's not clear where the sound perception is coming from. What I hear is very similar to the cello (?) that comes in around 30 seconds in
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My attention changed to the tinnitus in my right ear, which was stronger due to some guitarring. It beeps very quickly and keeping up with it caused a few wobbles in my body (only 10 seconds or so). I've learned that noting the wobbles robs them of their motive power. This sounds something like morse code at double speed.
Attention back to the shrinking nebula/blobs/dim lights. The boarders are more defined now and have flames on them. I mean the shape of how we draw flames, nothing crazy here.
Get a flash or two of pink... but not like what I was talking about. This is only spatters of brighter light against an otherwise black background. What I saw before was more Yellow Submarine-ish, minus the cartoon Beatles. These have only been flashes in recent days.
There are sharper points in the field now, some light some dark. These are pulsing at the 5-10 Hz range.
end of sit... I stopped several times over the 50 minutes to write notes.
lying in bed this morning: Begin with breath, move to visual field, note as much as possible.
Rough session and things felt pretty unpleasant, but did my best to brave the discomfort. Faster vibrations now and more auditory. Sounded similar to the spin cycle on a washing machine. Sometimes this would mix with a slower pulse, making something like a horse's gallop sound, but with a white noise/guitar distortion sound instead of the "clop clop" from hooves.
A lot of effort was required to stay with and come back to meditating, which didn't mix well with the subtler times when sensations weren't so strong. I'd say I was in the tough phase for 40-50 minutes of the hour I was working on this. And I mean an ordinary sense of effort. I've watched myself try to control things before in a funny visual fashion, but this wasn't that and honestly, I haven't experienced that again in a few months.
Lastly, I got some time with a 3Dish thing. It was the head of a spoon. I knew it was the head of a spoon and it was fairly stationary in front of me facing downward. It was metallic in the sense that it had a dull sheen. The sheen was mildly colored with green and pink, though not technicolored like the Yellow Submarine flashes. I could definitely see it. I heard it too. It was making a periodic "fling fling fling" sound, which I associated with what would result from quickly rubbing across the edge with my thumb... though I didn't see my thumb. I can't say that I felt something tactile in any part of my body associated with it. This only lasted 10-20 seconds and was a little stronger than what I had mentioned before. Those objects had a similar look, but I don't remember as much detail nor sound.
Thanks for prodding, Trent. Writing this has already been helpful.