Not sure if in the right topic or not, couldn't find a meditation forum, so I figured this would go good in newbie questions.

A couple years ago when I was actively meditating, I was able to get to a point where once I had run through my meditation techniques(visualizing color filling my entire body/imagining all the tension releasing from each body part foot to head/focusing on breathing) and I was completely relaxed, I could get to this place I speak of in the topic.

Its hard to describe it by mere words...but I'll try my best. If you were to close your eyes right now, you would see darkness created from your eyelid sliding over your eye. However, you can definitely feel that the darkness and your eyelid are close to your actual eye(within millimeters). Well when I reached this peak in meditation, it felt like the same thing, except the darkness expanded in ALL directions, 360 degrees. It felt like I was in a space-like room, surrounded in complete nothingness that stretched on forever. It was so "still" and peaceful. I actually even recall sort "transcending" the sounds in my room that were around me when I reached this amazing place, I didn't even hear them, they did not exist. I was in another location, a black realm of peaceful stillness.

It was only in this meditative peak that I was able to have my first out of body experience, but b/c i was young and scared I did not allow myself to fully leave my body. Anyways, I feel this room is the start of where all higher level and spiritual things begin. It is only in this "state" that I'm able to completely shut off the mind and tap into my inner being and oneness.

Does anyone have anymore information about this "state of being" or experience it themselves? I've tried a few times to get back to this "state of being" but did not achieve remotely the same thing. I tend to find myself being distracted by thoughts on and off while doing the same techniques, and can't get past that initial feeling of being of the body.