Has this happened to anyone?

**Kuhnada29** · 08-10-2010 06:47 PM

I think i had a glimpse of the divine.

2 nights ago I went to sleep, and something strange happened..i can't exactly explain it, but it was a sort of feeling. And it wasn't like a dream that you wake up remembering, it was something more than a dream.

I was somewhere, don't remember where, i don't remember anything except the feeling. But it was the most amazing feeling ever...everything was sort of connected in some way..i remember this. The feeling only.

I thought that maybe i woke up from sleep to sleep paralysis..but SP doesn't feel this good. I felt like I was really really high off of a drug or something....bliss would be the best way to describe it. Just extremely happy and content...and connected.

I don't know why or how this happened....maybe I had a OBE or maybe i meditated in a nonlucid dream. But I DO know that like 1 or 2 days..maybe 3 days before that happened i was practicing a meditation called "traktak".

Tratak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basically it's a meditation where you sit and watch a candle...I did it for excessive amounts of time after power went out from a storm. Whats interesting is that the meditation stimulates CNS. I also had been practicing deep breathing after smoking cannabis that day before.

It might have been just a dream...whatever it was i want to experience it again....if this is what meditation does i definitely want some more of it. Words just don't do it justice.

I really do believe this has something to do with deep breathing.

**Philosopher8659** · 08-10-2010 07:00 PM

I have had two real visions in my life, both when I screwed up. I would not give what you described a second thought. They happen when wide awake, but just when you are doing something horribly wrong, wrong enough sometimes such that one is only a couple of seconds away from death. You are never quite the same afterwords.

Nothing was said on either occasion. I simply had a choice to change my behavior-to change my mind about a choice I made. And since I am not worm bate, I obviously made the correct choice on the second chance.

The first one, someone tried to kick me in the nuts, they just missed, but I went into an immediate rage.

Then, I was about 6 feet from both of us, watching, calm no rage. All I felt was a sickly sweet evil. I decided that I had to stop myself.

The second I was driving, two others in the car, line of sight obstructed to traffic. I decided to just gun it at the first break in traffic. When I did, time stopped, and I was about 500 feet out in the street, where I could see the fatality of my judgment. I took my time examining things. When I was satisfied I was back behind the wheel, time still stopped, time enough to decide what to do. Once I decided, time resumed. I missed my death, the on comming car would have hit my door at over 50 mph.

I, was never the same.

These things you never forget, and you know.

One of the things one comes to realize, that no matter how bad things one has to live through after that, they are alive simply by the grace of what ever it was, and one really has nothing to bitch about. From that moment on, one is a walking dead man-and every moment, no matter how bad, is better than the choices one made.

**Speesh** · 08-29-2010 07:22 AM

Interesting, I've had a similar experience though the few times its happened it had to do with waking up during sleep. What happens is I'll spontaneously wake up around a half an hour into sleep, and there will be this incredibly powerful feeling radiating throughout my body. Its happened perhaps around 6 or 7 times that I can remember, and I always drift back to sleep around 30 seconds later. The first few times I'd describe it as the most uncomfortable feeling ever. It was so intense and overwhelming I thought I couldn't last more than a minute like this without going completely crazy. It was like a massive surge of energy stuck inside me.

The last two times however I handled myself much better when it happened, and it became something amazing. Somehow I was able to compose myself and let go, every bit of stimulus was just flowing through my mind like a river. The energy was still intense but didn't feel blocked like it was before, this time it felt more balanced. I simply laid in bed for an indeterminate amount of time feeling absolutely incredible before drifting off again.

This definitely didn't have to do with deep breathing, that's something I really need to start working on. I hadn't been meditating either. Then again, my experience sounds distinct from yours. At any rate I hope you find your way back there, sounds like an awesome experience.

**MatthewOlson** · 09-29-2010 05:54 AM

I have received a feeling like this before.
The feeling that all is content, and that all is connected in some way. Its like a warm light showering the core of your being.

I met this feeling in meditation twice. I generally try to drift into meditation as I lay in bed, and then from meditation into sleep.
Whether you are compatible with the belief of 'spirit guides' or not, I was meditating on the presence of mine, and I was trying to invoke the idea of both entities of conscious (mine and theirs) melding together in mind. I wouldn't say that the feeling had to do anything with whatever spiritual idea I was trying to invoke, but the mere act of focusing my mind in the intent of opening myself to the universe, opening my consciousness to a much greater body of energy, I achieved that rather unique feeling, where everything was interconnected simply by sensation, and I won't forget that feeling.

I would almost say that, in some perspective, its a tad maddening,... to wake up and realize that the world, in its 'so-called' waking state has almost no concept of this feeling, and personally,... when things in the 'waking' world get a tad 'colder' than usual,... I sigh to myself, feeling a desire for that sense of consciousness. ... I sense that unique sensation is just a fragment of higher conscious understanding; a small dip into an ocean of unique experiences.