Ok so I've had HPPD from taking X for about 8 months now about 3 months ago it pretty much subsided and never really bothered me too much. But, I also started meditating and practicing yoga regularly sometime around then. So, now everytime I meditate my HPPD comes back pretty bad...I get this kind of static looking energy on everything and pretty much everything in my plane of vision I'm not directly looking at twitches and slides around pretty noticeably. Does anyone experience this that hasn't done drugs? I'm not sure its normal to experience slight visual distortion after meditation and my drug use just enhanced it or if my drug use completely caused it. Its honestly pretty annoying and now I only meditate right before I go to bed so I don't have to deal with it too often.
Does it go away after meditation? I as well can get OEV from meditation, or by simply putting my eyes out of focus (focus on nothing, look at *everything* at once) and OEV's can come on for me. I personally see this as being mid way in between reality and thought, whichever one you focus on strengthens, so to get out of it you can look at some text for example and not think about OEV. Or experiment and focus on the OEV, I have done some weird stuff by doing that (takes LOTS of concentration). Depending on my meditation my visual can be distorted for about 10 minutes afterwards, it is normal for some people to get distorted, some people cannot move right for a few minutes.
I've done plenty of hallucinogens - mostly acid and peyote, without hppd to speak of. However, I do get migraines and the migraines cause visual disturbances which are pretty horrendous, though predictable. They look like an old tv screen with a drop of water on the picture tube, that is, colors look bent and exposed. These are migraines though and usually accompanied by depression, feelings of illness and headache. I also have done meditation since I was fifteen, so for 30 years now. I do not have any extrasensual perception to speak of including CEVS OEVs or anything else. Um, sort of. Actually I do get some sparks of light and colors and some stuff, but it's pretty common and I don't associate it with meditation practice. As I usually say, there's no particular thing known as meditation. There are meditations, which means various techniques, even if the technique is open flowing and uncontrived it still is a technique. So without knowing more specifically what you are doing I myself cannot suggest anything useful. Except that since at least in meditations one is working most essentially with their own awareness and that awareness probably is becoming amplified, that one will notice what is taking place more. But that's pretty much obvious.
im not one to meditate really.. but looking in one direction, not moving the eyes will allow things to the field of vision. things you are not looking at..
Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries to your mind. Regular yoga is perfect health, perfect control over the mind and to perfect peace with oneself, the world, nature and God.
