Meditation Dreams

Jayjay

I have had a couple of visions during my meditations. Can anyone explain/debunk these? Was I sleeping? What happened? I think they hold meaning like normal dreams but I'm not sure what exactly it was in the first place. Any help would be greatly accepted. Thank you all! Lots of love :)

Telly03

Were you still focusing on your breaths when you had these? The reason I ask is that I first started meditating well before I knew anything about Buddhism, and the lady I was meditating with, I don't know what kind of new age stuff she was into, but we would let ourselves get into a deep meditation and let our minds wander where ever it wanting, then share where our thoughts went afterwards. It's been different though picking meditation back up while focusing on breaths... My mind no longer wanders off in a dream like state, but I have had some experiences like everything was expanding around me... Not sure what that was about, but it was different than the dream like experiences.

Jayjay

Wow that's cool. I too started meditating months before I even considered Buddhism or knew about it. I had just gone thtrough a lot with a very close friend and I saw her and she told me something she like talked to me. I've also had another experience where I saw The Buddha meditating under the Bodhi tree.

Arjquad

I don't have any fun things like that. The closest I got was thinking about the monkey from Hangover 2.

AMH

I don't have any fun things like that. The closest I got was thinking about the monkey from Hangover 2.

Hahaha, that is the true 'monkey mind'! Don't know if you caught that.

I have lots of thoughts passing through, I can deal with those by counting breaths until they pass (unless in extreme emotion). Then I have the waking dream stuff, where you can affect the dreams to some extent. I try to not get caught up in those anymore than a regular dream. They are much harder to let go of.

Then there are the deep meditations where I am REALLY not having thoughts for a time. Then an entire 'thing' comes to me. It has happened half a dozen times? More likely when I have been really practicing. The entire thing is a fully developed story. Some of them are short and some are a novel length idea encapsulated in the thought. I wondered sometimes if it was a past life recall.

key point, don't be attached. don't take it too seriously. It is a brief thought or message and you note it and let it go. Simple but not easy.

Arjquad

Hahaha, that is the true 'monkey mind'! Don't know if you caught that.

Ha, I actually did catch that. Maybe my subconsense is trying to tell me something.
:confused:

shanyin

haha

Arjquad

I just had a session, sadly it was really short, only 8 minutes. But I kept having a recurring picture of a pink lotus flower. I first saw it as a painting on a gothic archway and also as a flower in the wind. Sadly while I was trying to figure out the meaning of the flower my body felt like it was falling and I was jolted out of my meditation frame of mind.

Jayjay

Maybe the lotus was your serenity of mind, and it began falling asleep. Pun intended

federica

.... Maybe my subconsense is trying to tell me something.

subconscious..... ;)

Arjquad

.... Maybe my subconsense is trying to tell me something.

sub

conscious..... ;)

Ah thanks. I'm writing everything from my iPod and it has the worst spell check I have ever seen.

patbb

.... Maybe my subconsense is trying to tell me something.

sub

conscious..... ;)

nice one.

unrelated to the thread but i thought of a similar thing last week:
conscience.