Meditation and Lucidity

**Dreamer10** · 10-11-2012 12:24 AM

My one meditation question is this:
The other day I decided to mediate before bed and I was listening to one of those beats that is supposed to help, I think that it did.
Anyways after a while of sitting there after each breath it would feel as though I was taller than the ceiling and looking down at my body. During this time I also repeated a mantra for lucid dreaming.
What does this mean, the looking down at myself thing? Is it good or bad?

**SzuruDusk** · 10-11-2012 12:46 AM

I can't see as how that could be a bad thing. .~.] It would probably mean that you would have luck with WILDing, especially seeing as how well you can shut your other senses out and go into a trance like that.
I even have a tendency to forget where I'm sitting and what position I'm in sometimes. >_>;

How were your dreams that night?

**Alucinor XIII** · 10-11-2012 02:57 AM

Its not particularly a good thing or a bad thing. And it may or may not help your dreaming-- if you frequently practice meditation it will open your eyes to the internal mechanisms of your mind/conscious/ego, whatever you want to call it. And that can definitely help with Lucid Dreaming-- as it can help with all aspects of life.

When you meditate, you quiet your mind. On average, tons of your attention is directed towards internal thought, internal dialogue, and visual processing. etc. When you meditate, you let all of this settle, and the mind quiets. With the quieting of the mind, you are opened up. All that attention is now free to notice and experience other sensations.

My personal understanding is this: What you are feeling is all of the sensations of your body-- they're always there, but when you're busy living life, they aren't important, and aren't noticed (its an evolutionary thing). You tap in, so to speak, to all of your bodies nerve endings once your attention is unbridled from the concerns of surviving. You can feel your breathing, the flow of blood, etc. You can even feel the subtle energy of the breath (the oxygenation of your body). All of this mixes together.

It manifests in many way. Some people feel like they're floating, others feel a pleasant over-all buzz. Others also describe what you feel, a sort of rising or growing out of the body. its just your mind interpreting sensations that you don't usually notice.

That's my 2cents, anyway.

What you feel-- what all meditators eventually feel-- is the noticing of stimuli that is always present, but you don't pay attention to it.