Something strange going on during meditation

[Morell]

I'm actually quite used to it by now, but it is quite strange thing. Sometimes when I do meditation, passive, no chanting, just void meditation, it starts feeling as if the space around me deforms. (either that or I deform) Like my sense of my body is that I'm like bend to the side, one or the other, sometimes almost touching legs with my head. At first it was making me almost nauseous, but got used to it. I assume that it is my soul partially detached from the body.

What do you think it could be?

 

[ByAMountainOfBooks]

Not an uncommon experience. Often feels like the body is deforming or even the room you are in. Might even cause you to lose balance. In my experience that’s caused by a loss of an visual anchor (especially in the beginning stages until the body is ascostumed to sitting) or bad posture.

• don’t meditate in the dark. Turn on some light
• correct your posture especially by drawing in your chin to properly align the vertebrae in the throat
• perhaps meditate with eyes slightly open

Some people seem to be more susceptible to it. I had it too when I started out.