Meditation Experiences

Meditation Experiences

While meditating, you may get various types of experiences. Thousands of people have reported such experiences and we have categorized these experiences for you to know, in a simpler manner! Experiences occur at various levels. There are some real experiences while there may be many which are “Mental Constructs” or “Imagination” or “Mind Games”! It’s only your heightened AWARENESS that can help you to know and differential a real experience from Mental Construct.

Various Experiences at Physical Level

1) Headache or pain in any part of the body. (This is very common. We receive cosmic energy in meditation, which cleanses the sick part of the body, and this causes pain. This pain is felt only when one is in meditation.)

2) Body becomes very light or very heavy.

3) Body feeling very cold or it may perspire.

4) Hearing clearly the beating of one's own heart from inside.

5) Feeling of hot air going out of ears.

6) Body going into various yogic postures / Mudras / movements.

7) Experiencing sudden laughter or crying.

8) Body sways front to back or sidewise or whirling sensations are felt even when the physical body is steady. (This is because of the astral body trying to separate from physical.)

9) Feeling that something has gone out of our body and being afraid of it. (Fear is common and there is no need to specially worry about such fears. Better way to handle fear is to face it squarely as and when it arises. By doing so it will rise to its peak and then it will subside.)

10) Feeling sleepy / drowsy. (It is not 'sleep', a thought-free state of mind gives such a feeling in the beginning.)

Hearing/ Smelling Experiences

1) Hearing voices, words or messages.

2) Hearing sounds or musical notes.

3) Becoming aware of various fragrances around.

4) Hearing one's own snoring very clearly. (Means you are aware of your relaxed body sleeping)


Various Energy Experiences

1) Feeling that the body has become very small.

2) Feeling that the body has expanded greatly and has become gigantic.

3) Losing bodily awareness of joining of the hands.

4) Losing awareness of time spent in meditation.

5) Flying like a bird or an airplane. (Astral travel)

6) Feeling that you are meditating at new places.

7) Feeling upward creeping movement from the base of the backbone. (Awakening of kundalini)

8) Feeling of being healed of illness.

9) A deep contentment, great peace and bliss dawns upon a person.

Seeing or Light Experiences


1) Total darkness, brilliant light or various colors are seen even with closed eyes.

2) Seeing of terrifying images (Masters give the experiences to drive away fear complexes)

3) Seeing of snakes in astral visions.

4) Seeing and experiencing being moving at a fast pace in a dark tunnel opening into bright light. (Classically called 'Tunnel Experience')

5) Seeing friends and relatives who are alive or departed.

6) Seeing dead friends and relatives. (Comfort them; Suggest to them to seek assistance from Enlightened Souls and to move on to upper worlds)

7) Seeing astral masters / Gods. (Request them to give knowledge. Listen to their messages.)

8) Seeing hills and forest. (as a part of astral journey)

9) Seeing books and pen (Suggestion to try auto writing)

10) Following a "Jyoti" or "Light". (Means following masters. Follow the Masters wherever they take you)

11) Seeing all types of "Visions", the snap-shots of future events.

12) Visions of the past lives and Seeing / realizing past mistakes.

These experiences, one may encounter on the way to meditative state. But till these are experienced, the meditative state has not been reached! Only on transcendence of all or any such experiences, the meditation happens

Please remember: All the experiences are just the passing phases on the journey towards meditation. It is not real meditation! You are neither the experience nor the experiencer. You are the one who is AWARE of the one who is witnessing to all the experiences!