Okay I'm not sure where to start this so I guess I should say a bit about myself. I am experienced in meditation and have used it for years when stressed or overwhelmed, however a few months ago I had a bad experience. This was in the midst of a bad period in my life, my wife and I had separated and I was forced to rent out my house because I could no longer afford the mortgage by myself. It could be said that I was in a dark place at the time, but I was at a point where I was really trying to pull myself together. On a night, I believe it was last April or May, I was having an emotional relapse so I decided some meditation to calm my nerves. It didn't take long before the familiar slipping feeling came over me, a soothing feeling of leaving my earthly problems behind. Suddenly I felt dozens of small cold hands fall upon me and pull me down off the bed and drag me into the darkness beneath the dresser, it was as breath catching and sudden and unexpected as going down a hill on a roller coaster with your eyes closed. Needless to say I instantly broke from meditating to find myself still on the bed. Thinking it was a circumstantial experience I tried once again, only to have another similar experience. Is this something common? Has anyone else experienced it? Am I in any real danger if I attempt this again... I have been too apprehensive to try.

It seems fairly safe to try again, did you actually FEEL anything after the meditation?

just really unnerved

Well, im guessing its not really dangerous. But be on the lookout for anything else... Cryptic? Such as that. Keep us updated.

The only experience that even compares was when a group of us decided did a meditation ritual in an old grave yard when I was a lot younger in attempt to communicate with the dead. That time I saw myself surrounded by darkness with undead faces peering in at me, this however was probably my imagination, since I was in the mindset of siwhing to experience something of that nature, paired with being very young and inexperienced.

Caitsith, it sounds like you may not have surrounded yourself with protection from negativity before opening yourself up? Maybe all the stress is taking the form of the "hands", and I feel that you need to release this before you can slip into a calm, meditative state, without interruption. Just a feeling I get. . .

it might be that it was a new experience and it just startled you, or a lucid dream.

at risk of sounding weird

i say expirment move the dresser

if it recurs it should change slightly

unlesss

the spirits were just giving you a pat and cheer you up

but you freaked
yeah some things just distort once you freak

I actually don't live there anymore, I was staying in that room at my parents house, shortly after I moved to the basement bedroom, them I got an appartment, but as of now I have moved yet again. You dont suppose it was environmental?

unfortunatly you missed the chance to know for sure

but probaly so

sometimes though your mind distorts split second thoughts and moods [hah nightmares]

you may have "crashed" into a weird [and creepy] mental blok

On the face of it, it sounded like you were pulled out of your body.

Out of interest have you ever had an out of the body experience?

Hard to say... There was a time when I thought so, but now Im not so sure that it wasn't an inner body experience