strange experience

dan_dan · February 23rd, 2011, 20:14

can someone help explain this..
i have only meditated a few times and i had a strange experience...
i was trying to meditate and i found myself drifting through space.. i saw a bright light in the distance drifting through space.. this bright light noticed me and very fast came right up to my face.. The bright light was infact a small round mirror.. i saw the reflection of my face in the mirror.. but it was the feeling i had that were the strangest.. the mirror felt alive, conscious and it felt like it was scanning me... at this point i got scared and stopped meditating.. it was the most bizzar experience i have ever had..
i welcome any knid of explination of this

GilesC · February 23rd, 2011, 22:32

Hi Dan and welcome to the community,

This may not be the answer you are looking for, but it is the answer I shall offer...

Whatever images or thoughts arise during the meditation session, simply accept them, acknowledge them and choose to let them go. To try and interpret them will just generate more thoughts in the mind and serve to detract you from the meditation. These visuals, sounds, thoughts people have are just the activities of the mind.

Have you listened to Michael's "Discover Meditation" course? If not, I would suggest you download it and follow his instructions, as that may help.

Hugs

Giles

Hazelkay · February 23rd, 2011, 23:01

Welcome to the forum.

Hope your journey is a fruitful and fulfilling one.

Meditating, especially at the beginning, can often invoke a dream state and images can seem extremely real; sometimes uplifting, sometimes puzzling and sometimes nightmarish. The unconscious mind is stuffed full of images - often distorted ones - and these can surface during meditation as they do during dreams.

Giles gives great advice - allow them up and out - the same attention you would give to a balloon with an alarming face painted on it floating by.

The images themselves cannot hurt you, only your reaction to them will have any effect.

Have a great adventure

peace and joy

Edwin · February 24th, 2011, 00:00

I absolutely LOVE the balloon analogy. No matter how alarming the face on the balloon is, it basically is just a ball of gas

Great advice you guys !

Dan_dan, It might seem that the answers you got seem to diminish what to you felt like a spiritual experience, but this is not the case.
Giles and Hazelkay just tried to remind you to your goal, meditation itself, not to whatever might happen during those sessions. You will encounter some more pretty weird experiences in the coming years. Also there will be times of extreme dullness, infinate bliss, extreme calmness, and feeling uneasy, fidgety or downright anxcious or scared.
Every emotion that comes up and that you choose to let go at that time, will leave your system never to return.

Itlandm · February 24th, 2011, 19:56

I would like to say a few words about this. If you are a spiritually sensitive person, it is quite normal that you may experience some kind of presence when you open the doors of your subconscious. However, the nature of this inner companionship depends on yourself, it is not imposed from without or by fate.

Your vision of the companion presence as a mirror is perhaps the best "image" of this that I have ever heard of. But do not expect this to continue in its present form, and above all do not seek it. It will appear or disappear as it seems fit, if you approach meditation without demand or expectation. Some never experience anything like it, some once, and some would be surprised if it were absent.

As your vision implies, the nature of what you find within depends on who you are. For better and for worse. After all, you are still in your own subconscious. It is not magic. No witches are conjuring this on you, but you are meeting yourself, in a manner of speaking.

dan_dan · February 26th, 2011, 00:35

Thanks for the input guys. Meditation is something i am definitely interested in, even more so after i had this experience.
I would like to thank Itlandm for your explanation as it has given me some direction on how to understand the experience... but there is more to this than i have already told you about, what it was that really scared me. I dont really want to write about it here because to be honest it sounds crazy. But i would like to talk to someone about it.

GilesC · February 27th, 2011, 13:35

Originally Posted by dan_dan

I dont really want to write about it here because to be honest it sounds crazy. But i would like to talk to someone about it.

If you like Dan, you can contact me via my website (via my profile here) and I'll be happy to discuss things via email. Can't promise quick responses, but I'll do what I can.

dan_dan · February 28th, 2011, 07:29

Thanks Giles. I have sent an email to you via your site. I appreciate your view on this