Falling asleep whilst staying awake...

Here's something that helped me make sense of the meditation experience when it all got weird and freaky.

I spent a while focusing all my attention on my third eye, literally closing my eyes and then looking (cross eyed) at the point between my eyebrows. I did this because its mentioned in lots of texts - tau te ching, gnostic gfospels and bhagavad gite are three that come to mind, that focusing on the third eye is the way to meet God.

So anyway it took a couple of months for the third eye to start energising, which felt like a pressure in the front of my forehead, not comfortable at first but I carried on anyway.

As time past and I learned to relax more all sorts of wonderful visuals started appearing, flashes, colours and shapes, stars etc, noises as well, buzzing, ringing mostly - it reminded me of being on LSD - which of course is naturally occuring in the brain and works during sleep/dreaming.

Also got rumbling feelings in the head to start with and then all through my body and occasionally just slipped off into concious dreamworlds and then blackness. It reminded me of what friends have told me about DMT, which of course is naturally occuring in the brain and is released just before going into the deep non dreaming sleep.


So it seems that enlightenment, if you can call it that is just the staying awake whilst falling into a deeply relaxed sleep state which ties in with the Alpha, Delta, Theta brain state stuff thats sometimes talked about.

The deeper you get the more able you are to influence the course of the waking dream, in truth it's all just one big dream becoming more real (and energy sapping)the more definition you give to it. Every night you return to the void in your sleep to be renewed and then return back out to the waking dream state. So the trick is to attain the void state whilst walking around then it all becomes a maleable dream - effortlessly perfect in every way.

This helps me to relax, hope its useful.

COOOL!!!

I shall remember what you said for future meditations. :)

One thing, though, what do you make of the third eye? I have had pressure in my forehead for a few years now, i think it might be overactive.

Enlightener

Hey Enlightener, how are you, haven't spoken for a while.

My experience is that the pressure in that area gets really intense and then it sort of disipates and spreads all over the top and back of the head sort of giving a warm secure sensation, sort of like you get when you take ecstasy. It makes me think of a sperm trying to get into an egg and what it might feel like to be absorbed into it - sounds strange but thats what it brings to my mind.

I found that focusing on the third eye more made the pressure more intense, i was a bit worried about getting a tumour but then i thought the heck with it, I'd rather die trying to work all this out than live a pointless life (for myself) never giving it a shot. Anyway the pressure got more and more intense and then sort of popped one day, not like a big pop just like a little whole opened up and allowed something to seep through. Anyway now I've got pressure at the crown as well as the third eye - i'll let you know if anything else happens if you want. Its all just stabbing in the dark to be honest, trying to find a way to get unbreakable peace. lol.

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Dreamer I feel the pressure on my forehead when I'm awake most days, along with this constant presure on the third eye I fell more metaphysical things around me, when I am awake. Lately I have felt a very soft wind blow on my face, neck or hand.

I have a question; What should I do when it continue after meditaion is over?

So anyway it took a couple of months for the third eye to start energising, which felt like a pressure in the front of my forehead, not comfortable at first but I carried on anyway.

As time past and I learned to relax more all sorts of wonderful visuals started appearing, flashes, colours and shapes, stars etc, noises as well, buzzing, ringing mostly - it reminded me of being on LSD - which of course is naturally occuring in the brain and works during sleep/dreaming.

Hey cw, how are you, it's been a while since we chatted.

I get the pressure all the time too, to be honest I haven't got an answer for what you should do with it except trust your intuition and go with it. If Jesus talked about it then it can't be bad right?