Visions and hallucination are not uncommon in meditation practice. In Zen training we’re reminded that the mind generates thoughts and visions like the eyes generate sight, the ears sound and so on… The instruction in that context is not to cling to the vision so that you can return to object-less meditation.
If you are interested in how some of the older meditation traditions view different meditative states, search for Jhana or Dhyana, sentient beings have been doing this for a long time and there is a lot of helpful guidance out there to support your practice.
Where do you draw the line between what you take seriously and what you don’t?
I mean, when the water bill arrives in rhe mail. Illusion or not?
When I immediately go back to sleep on my mornings off, I pretty much always see some weird shit. Not strictly of a religious bent, that’s not really my thing, but most recently things like overgrown highways and cars that have gone extinct. I guess you could kind of call that a “land of the dead.”
There’s actually some research into this!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7497109/
In short, you jump to the dreaming sleep stage, but the specifics aren’t the clearest yet
Interesting. Very interesting. That’s got symbol power.
I’m not religious at all. But ya, seeing this stuff certainly does evoke some religious ideas.
The creator. It’s creating the universe. Basically a big sun-jewel that emits “poetry energy”. No intelligence tho. No personality. Just a big shining thing. No judgment or judgy vibes.
And the land of the dead. Underground. Stone buildings. Lit by colored lamps. Eternal low-key party. Chill music. Spacey people hanging out, talking about their former lives and stuff. Occasional (nonconfrontational) demon (a tall gangly person with arms and legs all poking out in weird directions, swiftly staggering along on its demonly business).
I have a theory about why there’s a “land of the dead” (because why would a dead person have a body?). I think I (my “soul”) carries around a translator with it. That translates any experience into “time, space, things, people, light, dark etc”. A universal human-style-experience metaphorizer.
You keep saying you arent religious, but somehow i dont believe you 😅
I think you have a very active and creative mind that goes into overdrive when you meditate. None of what you are describing has any basis in reality.
Tips fedora
Thank you Mr reality expert.
Some people have really never seen outside reality and it shows
Buddy I’ve taken shrooms, I know what it’s like to see crazy shit that seems outside of our physical world. The human brain is an amazing biological machine.
Ya, true.
I would like to participate in a forum just for people who see some. Do you know of one?
I do not but if you made one I’d be interested enough to subscribe.
Black hole. It has already devoured me and made me its avatar.
You should be careful in your explorations. Not everything inside is inert.Nope. Not even once, and that’s just fine.
