ChristianKl comments on Meditation: a self-experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 30 December 2013 09:04:37PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, breathing meditation at that time is not only hard, it's kinda pointless. Well, until you get to the point where you can either enter a state of right-brain flow on purpose, or enter a REM-like state on purpose.

Could you illuminate what you mean with REM-like state? I do enter from time to time a state where I have REM activity meaning that my eyes move. I don't see that as particular useful or a state that I would seek intentionally.

Comment author: hyporational 30 December 2013 10:01:07PM 1 point [-]

Just before I fall asleep, I usually enter into a state where visualizing is very easy and my eyes vibrate. It took quite a while for me to realize that it was my eyelids, not eye movements that caused the vibration. This was before I understood anything about sleep physiology. Perhaps he's making a similar mistake.

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