What was this? Meditation? Sleep Paralysis?

So I'm trying to Wake induced lucid dream last night.

But anyway i got into bed. And tried the WILD technique. I relaxed my body and kept it still for just about an hour.

I started off counting my breaths to 100, and then from 100 back to zero.

Thoughts came to my head, but i quickly just returned to counting my breaths.

Like sometime after that i felt my hands and wrist get numb or something. But it was also vibrating, it was kind of strange. During this part i stopped counting and was just saying to myself "peace" and "tranquility". Something else strange happen, but i can't explain what it was. It was more of a feeling. But it felt kinda good.

Like it felt i was in a state of complete peace, my mind was so clear and i was focusing on that nice vibrating feeling..... But it was so brief. Maybe like 5 seconds or so. But then i see this dim white light in front of my eyelids. Mind you I'm in a complete dark room.

But i could feel my concentration breaking on and off, because i was kind of concentrating on that white light and also a plane flew by or something, and iheard my cat meowing a couple of times. Next thing i know the light goes away, and comes back and forth periodically. This is when the vibrations go away.

Why did i only feel vibrations in my hands? Isn't there supposed to be vibrations over your whole body? I can't even imagine how that would feel. That has to be a good feeling.

But yea i kept my body COMPLETELY still for almost an hour, i did start swallowing a lot more during the later part of the exercise.

What is that vibration though? It feels so good, i can only imagine how good it would feel over my whole body.

 

The "meditation" would be you concentration on your breath, just drifting back and forth. Everything else were just experiences, no different than feeling a warm drink, or seeing a tree- all sensory experiences experienced by the senses are the same, be they in waking or dreaming state--- just go back to focusing on your breath.

Don't get caught up on having experiences in meditation. Pretty soon you end up attached to experiences in the same way you can get attached to anything that feels good. Just focus. There is not, "supposed" to be anything one way or another.

And lastly, if you want to have lucid dreams, that's cool, but the techniques taught for having lucid dreams should not be confused with meditation or any "higher" state of consciousness. At best, having a lucid dream simply alerts you to the fact that there's more to you than you originally thought was you.

Happy Trails

 

thats definately not sleep paralysis....sleep paralysis is terrifying

 

vibration is subtle sense of blood flow
when it happens all the time it's kundalini
or a mix of both

 

apart from the seven major chakras, we have several "minor" chakras located in other areas of our bodies, including the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet

the sensation is similar to that when one does reiki, or any type of "hands on" energy work