valiens
Skilled Investigator
GSB:
I'm still there. My awareness doesn't disappear. I don't leave my body or black out. I could hold a conversation with you in that "state" but it would weaken it. I can pull out at any time and I'm not tired afterwards. In fact, if I'm tired going into it the energy will lie me down in a specific position and I'll go to sleep and stay like that for a really long time. (I'm a toss-and-turn kinda guy normally.)
I watched this video of Ken Wilber last week and found it illuminating:
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He says that to access the Delta state while awake (which is deep dreamless sleep) you've either got to have a brain tumor or have many years of meditation training under your belt--that it's the state of The Witness. So okay, that makes some sense then, right? Somehow with zero training I'm entering The Witness mode. Problem is, when he's demonstrating this, he's lying completely still and I'm prancing around like an idiot.
The dude who gave me the test, Masahiro, says that my brain is incoherent at that point, which indicates to him that I'm somehow being fed information. (The meditation masters would be in a coherent state.) So maybe that's it, at least on the surface: I take a back seat--as The Witness--to whatever this is, feeding the body instruction.
Maybe there is a Self beyond the self doing this or maybe it's an outside intelligence, or some combo. I dunno.
I do know that it had been uncharacteristically active while I was asleep at night this past month or so, but it's quieted back down. Seems to have its own activation timetable regardless of me.
I'm still there. My awareness doesn't disappear. I don't leave my body or black out. I could hold a conversation with you in that "state" but it would weaken it. I can pull out at any time and I'm not tired afterwards. In fact, if I'm tired going into it the energy will lie me down in a specific position and I'll go to sleep and stay like that for a really long time. (I'm a toss-and-turn kinda guy normally.)
I watched this video of Ken Wilber last week and found it illuminating:
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He says that to access the Delta state while awake (which is deep dreamless sleep) you've either got to have a brain tumor or have many years of meditation training under your belt--that it's the state of The Witness. So okay, that makes some sense then, right? Somehow with zero training I'm entering The Witness mode. Problem is, when he's demonstrating this, he's lying completely still and I'm prancing around like an idiot.
The dude who gave me the test, Masahiro, says that my brain is incoherent at that point, which indicates to him that I'm somehow being fed information. (The meditation masters would be in a coherent state.) So maybe that's it, at least on the surface: I take a back seat--as The Witness--to whatever this is, feeding the body instruction.
Maybe there is a Self beyond the self doing this or maybe it's an outside intelligence, or some combo. I dunno.
I do know that it had been uncharacteristically active while I was asleep at night this past month or so, but it's quieted back down. Seems to have its own activation timetable regardless of me.