I have a gift that I am very greatful for. I am able to move into a place when I get stressed or just because. I call it the stillness. It has no noise. Nothing to look at. Nothing touch. Nothing to smell. Nothing to taste. It is nothing. Or it is just so different, we can not comprehend it. I recomend a the book the magician's nephew. It explains the feeling very well, while the boy and girl are in the forest. C S Lewis is a great metaphysical writer. His stories are wrote like stories but reflect great life. You feel like you are asleep but... more. You feel more relaxed than you ever have felt in your life. Unfortunatly people have often mistaken me for spacing out. Has anyone else have an expirence like this? Sometimes people fall asleep with thier eyes open this way.

Actually, it sounds like you ARE spaced out. Just ignoring the rest of the world. And yes the Narnia series rocks.

how do you do this? is there a specific technique? that's something i could definitely use every now and then (...like now...)

Me too. But yeah it sounds a little more like spacing out. I do it too. It feels good for my eyes though.

I at first I thought I had a serious spacing out problem. Then my grandmother told me I have inherited this trait. I'm so glad my grandmother is a psychic! A good one at that. It sounds kind of dumb that her 40 years of meditation gave me a couple of seconds of relief along with much better things. Anyways I found out it could not be spacing out because I could not do it with my eyes closed. So I asked her why. She said that you can only do it while concentrating on something. Not just any happy place. The place that comes closest to the stillest place you can think of. From there you move into the stillness. It is so still that time does not move. I takes people years to achieve. Many never do. That is why I am greatful I can do it in 10-15 seconds. Boy it really makes me mad while I do it in class and the teacher calls on me. There actually is something there. It is not completely still. The only thing there is emotions. If you feed the stillness a small happyness, it will grow and embrace you. You become happy. Not very but just enough to not break the trance.

I just just entered the stillness and when i snapped back to reality i was covered in urine. It got all on my t-shirt and socks and my new suede shoes. I dont regret it though.

This has nothing to do with someone's grandmother being psychic

It's basically just relaxation. A feeling, like you can't really feel anything. I used to do it in school when I was younger, when there wasn't anything going on in class. I'd sit at my desk, and I'd basically get to a point where I couldn't feel my own body, I was perfectly still. No movement, no thoughts, nothing really audible to distract me.

It's easy enough to do. There's no special abilities involved in this. You don't have to be special or psychic to do it, and it doesn't take years to achieve unless you have the shakes. You just relax. Meditation can help as well. The BEST time for meditation as I found for myself, was always after a rigorous martial arts session. We'd all sit down at the end, and my instructor would walk around, talking to us as we sat indian-style, wrists on our knees, hands hanging loose over our knees. We'd close our eyes, and it was perfect relaxation. No thoughts, nothing. You almost feel like you're floating.

It helps me get to sleep sooner if I focus on remaining still and getting to that point where I almost feel weightless. Usually, my leg (or both) are shaking or moving around and I can't sleep. So it's just something I'll do if I remember to think about it.

It's actually a meditative state that some people can never achieve. Usually you can only do it naturally if you have a relative who has meditated for years or it may just occure in your family naturally.

I just put on Marilyn Manson, lie down, close my eyes, and booya. I'm there.
I doubt it's meditation, just...... relaxing?

What is being described is called a 'dissociative state'. That is, you 'ignore' all outside stimulii, and focus on just one thing. One easy way to illustrate this state is to look at one single point or object, and resist the temptation to move your eyes to see the rest of it.

If you can focus on that one spot long enough (about 30 seconds if you practice, but up to a minute or so longer at the first attempt), then your peripheral vision kicks in, and if you continue to focus on that single spot, you will see that the rest of your eyesight starts to get dark and begins to play tricks with lines and spots.

If you can control your need to move your eyes, then you will get an idea of what your eyes can really see. Couple that with a meditative state, and bingo! Altered states are real, its just the interpretation that has problems..lol

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Meditation is relaxation. It's a little more complicated than blocking out the outside world. It was a bad idea to start this topic because it has to do with my religion. Can a mod please lock this thread?

Perhaps it's alpha theta you mean? A point of meditation that's incredibly deep, yep sounds alpha theta to me.

I don't know the term for it. I'm not sure.