Sleep the ultimate painkiller

[Dthoughts]

It seems that sleep temporarily detaches consciousness from any bodily discomforts , last night I remembered moments from the last 'dreamlike' experience and it was blissfull and at peace. I tend to feel minor discomforts in neck areas but mostly my pain is mental. It's almost like sleep is a mechanism to get away from the neurosis of the busy world and pains and helps to cope and deal with (in my case) self inflicted discomforts. And so I find new respect for sleep as a reminder and energizing/reset feature to empower and comfort our daily efforts

[ghuntington]

Hi, Meditation can also achieve the same effects. Do you meditate? With kind regards, Guy

[Threeofeight]

Dthoughts here, was having a little trouble managing accounts and too lazy to correct the mistake. Hi, Meditation can also achieve the same effects. Do you meditate? With kind regards, Guy Do you have experience with this? if so I'd be glad to hear of them. I do meditate and practice jedi mind tricks, I do notice similarities between the meditative mindstate but I don't practice tradionally I just sort of get to a mindset where I am at peace and leave the past behind. albe this is peaceful I have neven gotten to the point of noticing dream structures and the depth of 'painkilling effect' that this experience offers. So ye those are very similar. i think deep traditional meditation does exactly that. I mean bring your mind into a deep sleep state and have the mind fully conscious. I sort of only experience these kinds of effects when I am waken up during sleep and still remember it. Or from drugs like MXE. Very similar visual structures. I suppose it's much more intense when fully conscious. One thing that strikes me is that in both this sleep state and the MXE state I notice a distinct non-rememberance of everything that has to do with bodily, physical experience. I don't mean to wow you or anything I am just thinking out loud Hope you don't mind. Thanks for your post!