Meditations Remembering meditations

[Quel_tizio]

It may be a silly question to ask, but is it normal to not remember everything you did while you were meditating?
Obviously, I remember which runes I vibrated and for which purpose, as well as AOP and so on so forth.

What I am asking is, I feel like the time that passed while I was meditating is different than normal and after I “wake up” from a meditative state, i get this feeling that time passed quickly and, if i try to recall that time, it’s sort of distorted, in a sense.

I am not referring to case as if someone fall asleep during meditation.

 

[SomewhatCoherent]

Its not uncommon. Your brain has frequency ranges it operates in. They are labeled delta (0-4hz), theta (4-8hz), Alpha (8-12hz), beta (12-40hz) and gamma (40-100hz). The delta range is closer to blackout sleeping where fall asleep and then wake a what feels like a moment later but its been hours. Gamma is closer to flow state or being in the zone where time slows down. Depending on the activity different parts of the brain are active at different frequencies and the experience of time is largely based on the brainwave frequencies by how much you are paying attention to time. In meditation the brainwave frequencies tend to drop causing time to speed up. Its not a big deal, having a clock ticking in the background can help you pay attention to proper flow of time. Binaural beats meditation music is based on manipulating these frequencies through different tones.

 

[ramses13th]

What's time when your mind slows or accelerates?

 

[Hs666]

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Yes, this is normal and can happen. The meditative state leads to altered mental states, such as trance, and relaxation leads the brain to not “register” events correctly. Somewhat like being in hypnosis, perception and recollection are confused.

During these states it is also common, for example, to be interrupted by memories, past events, emotions and other things that distract concentration from the exercise. These are a normal effects of meditation, which may seem strange, simply because people are not used to it and/or are not aware of it.

 

[Quel_tizio]

Yes, this is normal and can happen. The meditative state leads to altered mental states, such as trance, and relaxation leads the brain to not “register” events correctly. Somewhat like being in hypnosis, perception and recollection are confused.

During these states it is also common, for example, to be interrupted by memories, past events, emotions and other things that distract concentration from the exercise. These are a normal effects of meditation, which may seem strange, simply because people are not used to it and/or are not aware of it.

About past memories making their way into the mind during meditation.
There are times in which this happen, as a background noise of the mind, but they are distant memories, sometimes of childhood or later, long forgotten events that I haven’t thought about for long.

They appear not as the consequences of a flow/train of thoughts, they just appear out of nowhere, without a logical explanation.

 

[Hs666]

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Yes, it is normal, it is a “standard” process of cleansing, an effect of meditation.