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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Black hole. It has already devoured me and made me its avatar.
You should be careful in your explorations. Not everything inside is inert.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Nope. Not even once, and that's just fine.