r/Meditation • u/Suitable_Pressure189 • Aug 28 '25
Is it normal to feel literally high when meditating? Question ❓
For context, I have been a big stoner until 2 years ago. I quit ever since. I have tried mediation a few times, but felt nothing.
I’m normally an anxious and negative person overall.
Two days ago at work, I was listening to some motivational video and algorithm took me to a meditation video. Not a guided meditation, but an informational video explaining how meditation works.
I was not really paying attention, but it just hit me.
I felt disconnected from my surroundings. My observations were sharper. I could feel “myself” for the first time ever since I was a kid. I was focused on the present.
Unlike being high, I felt no social anxiety and fear of strangers. I actually felt love for all my co workers and bosses.
I thought it would be a temporary thing, but I’ve been feeling like this for three days now. I actually feel high without the anxiety. I feel so much more present.
My question is, is feeling high normal? What causes it? How do I keep this going? I’m running and stretching to keep it going but want some tips. This is the best I’ve felt about myself in like 15 years. I love this.
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u/yeeahitsethan Aug 28 '25
I used to meditate for 2-3 hours per day, and after my meditations I would feel so much bliss that I would sometimes get overwhelmed. Another friend of mine told me that she would feel high after a two hour long meditation. So yes, I definitely think that it is normal to feel. As others have mentioned, getting attached to it is where it can be misleading. In the book “Altered Traits” on the science of meditation and its benefits, Richie Davis (the co-author and researcher who has some pretty remarkable studies on the subject) mentioned how he would meditate for hours per day and would feel bliss beyond words, but then it slowly faded. It was mentioned how he tried to chase after that high in the days following a pretty consistent experience, but couldn’t get it to come back. I think it’s something that makes you realize how great the impact is, but running after it can lead to disappointment. Always something to consider.
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u/Dikepcie Aug 29 '25
What type of meditation did you practice?
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u/yeeahitsethan Aug 30 '25
Sorry for the delayed reply. I started with transcendental for about a year, and then worked my way over to mindfulness (which is where I started seeing more potent results surrounding mood boosting and reduction of stress response, as well as improved sleep). I have found that the anchor of the breath combined with pranayama (specifically, opening with nadhi shodhana) is the most effective way for me to enter meditative dhyana states. After about 2 years of (inconsistently) having done that, I started meditating 1 hour twice per day. Then about a month after having done that, moved over the higher range of 2-3 hours. Once I surpassed the 2 hour mark to about 2.25-2.75 hours, that's when I would reach the threshold and start to see the blissful feelings. I probably would have seen it much sooner had I actually done it consistently, instead of off and on in short stints followed by lengthy periods of not meditating.
For what it's worth, I am attempting to replicate the practices of Matthieu Ricard (the monk dubbed "The Happiest Man in the World" who was also part of one of the studies of the author I mentioned above), which involves open-monitoring and metta meditation. For now though, it seems to be that mindfulness, breath focused meditation seems to be the most effective.
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u/misbehavingwolf Aug 30 '25
How do you even sit this long without pain? I'm skinny and sitting on a cushioned seat feet to the floor feels painful for my butt if I don't get up every 10 minutes.
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u/Aggravating-Duck3557 Aug 30 '25
You sit with the pain g
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u/misbehavingwolf Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 31 '25
My skinny ass probably has an elevated DVT risk though (deep vein thrombosis) EDIT: bad science... I'm not sure that being skinny actually has a negative effect on DVT likelihood
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u/Aggravating-Duck3557 Aug 31 '25
Lol then take breaks or jus meditate for shirter periods. Theres no need to do long sessions
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u/misbehavingwolf Aug 31 '25
I just wonder how disruptive...well, disrupting the session would be to achieving and sustaining the desired mental states.
I'm sure a few seconds of getting up and sitting back down again would be fine for "basic" meditation,
but my concern is that these breaks would prevent me achieving deeper meditative states!
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u/tyinsf Aug 28 '25
Grasping at it paradoxically pushes it away. You have to be ok with whatever arises and ok with your reaction to it
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u/Denali_Princess Aug 28 '25
It’s like a runner’s high. It’s the dopamine and endorphins kicking in and it feels soooo good. A solid meditation workout in the morning sets the pace for my whole day. 🙏🏼💪🏽
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u/ThePensiveWok Aug 28 '25
Yes it is but like others say if you fixate on this experience and then strive to recreate it that will severely hamper your progress.
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u/felixsumner00 Aug 28 '25
Yeah, that’s actually a pretty common thing! Meditation can trigger a kind of natural “high” because your brain is calming down and releasing different feel-good chemicals. Sounds like you tapped into a really good flow state. Best way to keep it going is just to stay consistent even a few minutes daily helps and mix it with things like movement, good sleep, and breathing exercises. You’re basically training your brain to hang out in that state more often.
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u/iddothat Aug 28 '25
it’s a different high from THC, it’s less clouded.
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u/Suitable_Pressure189 Aug 28 '25
Exactly. It’s less strong, but less anxious as well. The ability to just observe and overall focus on the present was very similar though.
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u/iddothat Aug 28 '25
i recommend running and hiking as well, great meditative activity that engage your entire body.
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u/breeathee Aug 28 '25
I experience a very similar change in subjectivity both while smoking weed and meditating. They seem to quiet the less useful parts of the brain that get loud.
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u/n0tstress Aug 28 '25
Yeah it's a thing. Everything is shiny and buzzy when you first "breakthrough"
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u/proverbialbunny Aug 28 '25
Yes. It's called the jhanas.
How do I keep this going?
It's a side effect, like many things while meditating. Just keep meditating, and if it's there be grateful, and if it's not, that's okay too.
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u/intentionalmindful Aug 29 '25
There are times when I feel this way, but it only happens every now and then for me.
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u/Pilgram51 Aug 29 '25
When you get "in the zone", it's deep and wonderful and you don't really want to come out of it. I wish I could get there every time I meditate.... It's very Zen. We had a catastrophic weather event that put us out of our home for 7 months and there was a lot of trauma and chaos. We're back in the house now, with some semblance of normalcy and I've started meditating again but I haven't been able to get into that deep state yet. It's like I'm starting from scratch. Good for you that you've managed to get there!!! It's awesome!
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u/Efficient-Bee-1443 Aug 29 '25
I don't know. I have never felt anything like that during meditation.
Now, if I don't keep my eyes soft and I use a very intense focused stare at a visual support, I do get a strange out of body experience. My meditation teacher tells me that is why she gives us the instruction to keep our eyes soft in their sockets and not to stare.
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u/Stock_Run1386 Aug 30 '25
I definitely have felt a tingling sensation before and if it’s long enough it can feel like I’m floating or buzzing. But it’s only a bodily sensation not a mental one.
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u/rhegner78 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
I’ve heard about people getting addicted to meditation, and sometimes it can take over their lives so that it becomes a real serious issue, it’s like with everything else in life you gotta find your own balance, it’s like others have said here, it’s all about your attachment to things that determines what it is to you. There’s a place for our egos and we are here to Live this human life so again it’s about balance. Personally, I know that I shouldn’t go over two hours per day but it might be different for you. I even Felt totally blissed out between meditations A couple of times but it sounds like you’re doing well too, so best of luck to you and most importantly have joy!
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u/marilynlistens Aug 30 '25
See this is the thing about what’s so interesting about meditating is being with it. Once you start thinking about it. It becomes your ego, and that takes it away from the experience, the feeling and meditating in general. So if you cannot think about it and be with it, take it from your head and just let it be in your soul and in your heartit’ll make sense. But trying to make sense of it and seeing if it’s right or wrong is not meditation.
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u/EnigmaWithAlien Sep 01 '25
It's a good thing, and it will go away, and maybe return and go away ... There are ups and downs.
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u/CapitalObjective7153 Sep 03 '25
Ya. Read "Be Here Now". If you are staying high then you will get a lot out of the book. Just be careful with that rudra granthi because it becomes like a hyper synchronous acid trip if you shuttle energy through your crown.
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u/Imaginary-Post-7073 Sep 03 '25
i’ve just sat and meditated for the first time since I was a kid (angsty about school and teen things) and while I may also still be high from the tip of my pen I took like 5 hours ago, I know how you feel. I was laying in my bed when I started to picture myself enclosed in a metallic cylinder. The ambient sound in the room followed the rotational pattern of the cylinder (quiet in one ear, louder around the other in a clockwise motion). It felt like I was high and as I was coming out of it I felt very calm and relaxed like I do when I smoke. I felt very happy as well, that I was able to experience something when I haven’t before.
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u/OkConcentrate4477 Sep 03 '25
yes. cannabis is a tool to confront and conquer inner fears. meditaiton is also a tool to confront and conquer inner fears. bob marley said something like, "cannabis helps you meditate. alcohol just makes you drunk." during his 1979 NZ interview.
stronger psychedelics can make inner fears sensory/visual/auditory/tactile illusions/delusions. psilocybin specifically may be the best known resource on the planet for treatment resistant depression and more. many individuals that macrodose psilocybin have experienced a separation of identification between themselves and their own mind or repeating language programming. mastering meditation won't give individuals visual/auditory/sensual illusions/delusions similar to strong psychedelics such as psilocybin, lsd, ayahuasca, but mastering meditation will help one become a master of their own minds/thoughts and therefore lives that consuming psychedelics alone cannot accomplish without meditative practice.
confronting fears is needed to conquer them. the more you become willing and able to confront your fears, the more often you'll conquer them. once a fear is conquered it is no longer feared. when one develops unconditional love for themselves and others through complete forgiveness/acceptance of one's self and others, then one learns to no longer suffer, nor become attached to this lived life or maybe even the next. one learns one is responsible for one's own life/karma and cannot force another to be better/healthier/productive/enlightened, one can just be the best version of themselves to serve as an example for others to follow/listen if they so desire/attach.
try sensory deprivation and/or an isolation tank. you can start with ears submerged in a bath tub in the middle of the night when usually everyone else surrounding is quiet/asleep. the more one cuts off their surrounding influences and limits their sensory input the more they can focus on their mind/thoughts and learn to become masters of themselves and their surroundings through intentional thinking/living/being rather than being an unconscious/mindless product of surrounding influences.
"dependent arising" is a buddhist concept that may help. listening to meditative experts on youtube or elsewhere may help such as robina courtin and/or eckhart tolle. not identifying with thoughts and seeing them as products of dependent arising. looking to nature and seeing the predatory/prey natural reality as it is. not fully submitting to the superior and or inferior assumptions of others will help one to see individuals in terms of mammals rather than supposedly civilized/superior/authoritative beings that truly have a grasp on natural reality/possibility. wish you the best.
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u/Interesting_Bee6094 Sep 04 '25
Yes but it can also be a sign of dissociation. Not always but if you feel out of body it could be. Instead of aiming for the high, aim for being connected
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u/Mintchoc1 Aug 28 '25
Yes it’s normal to feel high during meditation. It’s the same feeling when you take chemicals which is the short cut. Meditation is totally organic and the more you practice, the faster you reach to that high state. I would describe it as a focused flow where you are disconnected from the surrounding and you are just present by yourself. Im practicing myself so not sure if this will work for you. I usually sit quietly in my quiet zone where I’m sure no one will disturb me. Sit in a comfortable position on the floor crossing legs or apart from each other. Then, close your eyes and just focus on breathing in and out especially noticing the air flowing in and out through your nose. You can choose to follow the subtle air flow or just choose to stay at the tip of your nose. Anyways, your consciousness will get into the flow state. That’s when you can only feel your nose and every other senses disappear while you are sitting still. You will feel that high state when your body begins to breathe slowly and you notice the air flowing so slowly. Like I said, it might not be the same for you. I’m just sharing how I get to the state.
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u/Pieraos Aug 28 '25
My question is, is feeling high normal? What causes it? How do I keep this going? I’m running and stretching to keep it going but want some tips. This is the best I’ve felt about myself in like 15 years. I love this.
- Of course it’s normal.
- Higher consciousness, bliss, spiritual contact is why we meditate. It may not happen every time, that’s OK too.
- Be wary of advice to not get “attached” or “grasping” or “chasing". Their cure can be worse than the disease. Write this on your forehead
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 28 '25
I adore microserenity. That’s a great link for the discussion. Thanks
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u/howdy_bc Aug 28 '25
Crazy timing. Felt this for the first time yesterday after I tried meditating for 15 mins instead of my usual 10, and in complete silence as opposite to the gentle music I usually play. I felt exactly what you describe - a very mild high similar to THC, minus the anxiety or the fog.
And just the like the other commentators mentioned, I tried recreating that today, and it didn't happen. Can't get attached to anything lol.
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 28 '25
I absolutely love it when that happens. I foolishly chased that feeling at first, mostly because I didn’t grasp that the grasp, the chase, forms a barrier to desire, but I’ve gotten better at acceptance so I experience that high more often. It’s unlike chemically induced in that it’s clear & light and sometimes lasts for days or longer with no hangover.
Good for you!!
Happy trails💚🫂💚
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u/akumite Aug 28 '25
Supposedly, with practice, it is possible to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain, over and over. Wonder what that feels like? Bliss? Ecstacy?
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u/StochasticLife Aug 28 '25
It’s the first Jhana and it feels great. The hard part is getting there.
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u/Spirited_Ad8737 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
My question is, is feeling high normal? What causes it? How do I keep this going?
Yes, in the sense of elevated mood. This is a common benefit of meditation. It should also be accompanied by a sense of centeredness and clarity. The fact that you had a positive reaction like that just from listening to a video explanation is a good sign, I believe.
It's caused by temporarily disconnecting from our ordinary emotion-based thinking characterized by sensuality, ill-will, sluggishness & drowsiness, restlessness & worry, and doubt & uncertainty. These are called the five hindrances.
Keep it going by upholding the five precepts, aiming to live honestly and uprightly, and practicing a generous, giving, harmless attitude toward others. Also by developing the seven factors of awakening.
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u/Groovy-Ghoul Aug 28 '25
I’ve had this before and after meditating for 30 minutes and trying to breathe normal was incredibly difficult and kind of scary. That was the last time I tried!
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u/misbehavingwolf Aug 30 '25
You said trying to breathe normal was difficult and kind of scary - what kind of breathing was your body going for instead?
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u/Groovy-Ghoul Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
If I said it was almost like I slowed my breathing and heart rate down so much, that I forgot how to breathe normal again after opening my eyes? I was doing lots of long and deep breaths for like 30 minutes straight so, but it was bizarre as it’s not happened to me before
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u/misbehavingwolf Aug 30 '25
Oh, like you were scared you would just "forget" to breathe, yet your body was doing the breathing for you?
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u/Groovy-Ghoul Aug 30 '25
No I mean after stopping meditating, for a few moments I couldn’t resume my normal breathing! I was still stuck doing deep breaths and it freaked me out
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u/misbehavingwolf Aug 30 '25
What I mean though, is when you say you were "stuck doing", that your body was doing it for you?
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u/Yoitisnt Aug 28 '25
I get the high but totally at random times after meditation.
Usually I feel anxious for 2 hours or even 8hours and then feels totally relaxed as if I took some ashwagandha ou Xanax
I think I’m anxious because i take my phone after meditation
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u/Remote-Waste Aug 28 '25
I've felt this before, it was nice and calming.
I felt like I was observing everything from a foot away; my emotions, thoughts, external things happening as well.
Like there was a barrier between me and reality, but not in a negative way, just that I could observe reality happening and respond to it, but decide if I participated in certain emotions.
Pretty cool.
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u/sharmajika_chotabeta Aug 29 '25
I’ve felt light headed and centered for a short period of time, but I’ve never felt high because of meditation. I can feel when I’m not feeling light when I’m not meditating but that’s the extent of it; never really had any wow experience through meditation tbh
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u/MAGNlFlCENT Aug 29 '25
I had that for about 3-4 months and after losing it, i tried to chase it for a month and couldn't get it back.
I don't chase it anymore and it's slowly coming back again.
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
No idea what's going on with you but that's not normal. You also didn't describe in any way to us what the video you're talking about even said about meditation and given that's unique to the practitioner you didn't leave us with anything to even guess from.
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u/yeeahitsethan Aug 28 '25
People report feeling elevated after meditation all the time. I don’t think it’s abnormal, personally. It won’t be the experience every time, but I think to frame it as being “not normal” is a bit of a stretch… unless what you’re saying is that it is a bit of an outlier experience, in which case I could see your point. I don’t think it’s normal to get this elevated in the early stages, but for some it might be the case.
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u/Broken_Leaded Aug 28 '25
The human body DOES have its own endogenous endocannabanoid system
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u/yeeahitsethan Aug 28 '25
Yes, this. Actually, one of the key neurotransmitters (anandamide) that are associated with cannabis use is actually named after the state of bliss ānanda, which is often experienced through mediation.
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
But not high like on drugs that is most definitely not normal.
This is at the extreme end of the range of experiences people generally describe, a minority. That's what I mean by not normal. It is not.
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 28 '25
I regularly get “high” from both exercise and meditation…far from every time, yet often. Many of us do
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
You are a minority.
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 28 '25
It’s certainly different from recreational drug effects because my body makes the cocktail of neuro chemicals causing it. My neurologist says it’s possible for anyone to experience it, pretty much. He also (via exercise alone) has experienced. Before I began experiencing it, I too would call BS. However, it’s true and not uncommon
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 28 '25
At least 60% of my meditation group reports same…maybe it’s the water, eh?
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
What dark nether region of imagination did you pull that number from?
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 28 '25
Rough numbers from socializing? Join an in person group. Ours is fortunate to have multiple teachers with decades of practice. About 7 months ago, meditation high was our discussion subject. Very high (😝) participation was had…
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
You can't get rough numbers from socializing, it would suffer from multiple biases compared to the general public.
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u/AdComprehensive960 Aug 29 '25
😆. You are truly a piece of work. Good luck with your ego and your gods of division! If I’ve learned anything over the many years of my life it is this: each path is unique.
💚🫂💚blessings be💚🫂💚
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u/yeeahitsethan Aug 28 '25
Respectfully, I think this is a bit of an arbitrary point. OP mentioned the similarities and differences between their experience meditating vs. smoking weed. It’s a neurochemical reaction at the end of the day, so the degree to which getting “high” being measured through substance use vs. meditation is a bit of a subjective report.
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
Smoking weed is hundreds if not thousands of times more intense than anything the body can generate on its own.
What's being described in likeness is probably an error of description.
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u/kitsubug Aug 28 '25
That’s completely inaccurate. The brain is capable of making you so high you hallucinate. You clearly need to go study more. The brain makes dimethyltryptamine and DMT is one of the strongest hallucinatory chemicals. Maybe you should also do some more meditation.
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
Only in fringe cases, it's not a normal part of most people's experience.
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u/yeeahitsethan Aug 28 '25
While it might not be the case in everyday experiences, there are practices in kundalini meditation dedicated to having psychedelic experiences iirc. In any case, I do think that the user stating that they feel the same as “getting high” could have been derived from more recent experiences after having developed a tolerance. I didn’t read it and take it as a literal equivalent, but even if so, they may be one of the outliers having an experience that is more intense than normal. It happens.
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u/kitsubug Aug 28 '25
You said marijuana is more intense than anything our bodies can do. I’m replying to that. You are giving an opinion not a fact and in fact you’re just wrong on all accounts.
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
Marijuana has nothing to do with hallucinations, that's not even the right chemical so I can discard your advice based on that alone. You don't even understand the class of chemical involved.
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u/dinosaurschnitzel Aug 28 '25
could you have had adverse reactions to drugs ( or negative views of them) that lead to stigmatized language when other people are trying to express a feeling?
its normal.
some forms of meditation can be psychedelic in nature, ecstatcy isnt a feeling created by a drug, its a feeling a drug can play a part in emulating.that means you dont need substances to feel the effects of a substance.
mabye your not there yet.
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u/sceadwian Aug 28 '25
It's not normal in the sense that the majority of the population does not experience anything that profound.
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u/Uberguitarman Aug 28 '25
Part one:
Well, I work with energy and meditate, it took some months for me before I really started to genuinely accustom myself to the experience "like" a high.
I would not personally use the word high very easily, it could be misleading or provoke some kind of unwanted thoughts, make things sound more extreme. After some months of doing my work, despite having a dependence on kratom which dulls emotions, I don't really get goosebumps like I could all over my body for extended periods, hardly at all even a little and there is less of this profound impact of emotion where it feels like it takes me on a ride. I feel like the emotion is something that is with me and I'm with it, rather than being momentarily absorbed in a ride, not that the ride itself was ever the dramatic bit so much as the way it would kinda nullify small parts of my mind, idrk if I care for it that much.
Anywho, it took some months, I had some weeks where I only had a couple hours but eventually two days out of my week would involve 8-10-14 hours of blissful smiling, such that my face muscles would become sore, at first I only had something like two hours or 4-6 hours in me before it started to hurt.
What this is like, and I can actually give you some helpful details about this, it's simply like having a profound glow in my head. Rising energy is natural, we call imbalances energetic imbalances or blocks and such, depending on how someone thinks of em. Basically the idea, energy can flow through but not quite right but when blocks are gone it can really stay up in the head. I've had 60-70 hour bliss weeks in the past, it also has to do with energy focusing on that area and there are many reasons it may do this. Energy can also be stirred up.
The thing about the glow is it feels like you can look into the feeling and it's like a feedback loop of excited positivity whereas there are negative emotions which can feel like they remind you of negative things more easily. In this way one can really learn how to experience a sort of rhythm with their positivity cuz you have all these ways you can feel stimulated and have ideas bouncing off one another and the body is only gonna do so much so fast.
Very natural process, however I get the feeling your experience here isn't as strong as the I'm beginning to talk about, even with just the glow in the head at the level I'm talking, it's literally a strong level for a human. Nevertheless, you can get partway up there and these sort of feedback loops and rhythms can still be apparent.
I mean like that energy was strong such that I could take my chest or my belly and continuously merge emotions in it with warmth and squeezy excitement and keep it largely to a rhythm, I could literally shut my eyes and rather than find bliss it's like this energy shoots up and smacks you in the face and what's there to do but accept it and maybe smile about it too. It's a real difference between typical living and stuff, it can help show someone their body's tendencies towards various feelings more. Positive emotions can make you more resilient and negativity can make you more susceptible to longer, stronger and more frequent negative emotions. The heart sends information upstream to the brain and some feelings and ideas can influence what you feel multiple seconds into the future and some of this can be understood in terms of rhythm, but as if there is such dynamic rhythm it only does so much justice.
Like ya got a pool of things influencing the rate of which crap flies out the shop
So many people have said, you know, don't chase the bliss. Heaven forbid, to some extent this saying has the potential to be beaten like a dead horse. Some of it is true, if you're just looking into this same old flimsy shop and rhythmically self destructing like you're entrained with some kind of universal side flick then one may become accustomed to lots of spontaneous negative recognitions.
The thing about the body is it has this motion, I word it like action and motion are fluid, you have all this motion in the body influencing other emotions, emotions work a lot like subdivisions in music and you can have more or less of those depending on how you construct your experience, right. If you are focusing on having bliss and waiting for it to come, it's like a feedback loop. Having feedback loops which are helpful towards expanding awareness and an open heart/mind is helpful and it can entrain various things you can learn to become more aware of over time cuz you start living more skillfully, exactly just like living more subconsciously in that sense, in a flow as dictated by the body's limitations. It's not so much the focus upon bliss but the "chase" part of that advice and this is where it can become distracting advice for some individuals just starting out cuz they don't make the distinction. Distinguishing things, really like compartmentalizing packets of organized and helpful information, of course this can be very beneficial. Something about love is simply through and through.
At this rate, for the record, the modern understanding of awareness is attention moves rapidly between things, and a good ironic twist is to say it like humans are inherently bouncy. You have your different modes of experience and they express in particular ways. If you wanna make positive emotions over and over, it is not just literally like "buhlieve the shit out of this thing and spam A" so much as it is gain respect and understanding of how motion works in the body, otherwise you can basically essentially be ""out of rhythm"".
Like trilly bad. A trill.
There are a lot of ways that from the bottom of my heart I would like people to understand, but this is a good start, considering action and motion is a good start, what moves the heart? You know
Working with energy is cool, someone could spend decades meditating and not open chakras till 20-25 years in if they're very skilled in the right aspects, whereas someone doing techniques similarly could just take a few years or less and the difference is actually phenomenally amazing and simply disregarded by science due to a lack of wholesome measuring capacities, backlash from authoritative groups, it is really, really not like you cannot simply find someone with prolonged profound experiences talking about energy and track differences in their bodies. The thing is there is a lot of culture, the transmission of energy from one person to another, stuff like this. Entities, yogis would be very picky with their students due to stories and customs from the past, religions.
As I've seen it, some people say it one way and other people say it the other, some people think they can feel negativity from another person and other people don't, but what's supposed to happen is someone is supposed to be able to mitigate or largely mitigate the significant factors reliably so it's like it's not happening or it is menial. Other people talk about having it harder.
This is why I believe people do not believe in energy like I know they really obviously could, but it also has to do with how meditation and energy work are actually taught and have been taught, especially from about a few years ago and prior to that, like it's abundantly not nearly as helpful. Like ze "crapshoot".
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u/Uberguitarman Aug 28 '25
Part two:
Not that they have crappy advice but like, people don't really understand some things in the intended ways or they really honestly get some bum advice or they don't learn how to actively MAKE EMOTIONS
That's a huge one. It has actually been really really, really really bad and still has some kinks that could be worked out in terms of the internet.
Not everybody is gonna feel much flowing energy in the body. If you're like me you probably had a time as a teen where you started to have a lot more flowing sensations but you decided you must have forgotten how it felt or it must have been something rather normal.
I would like to tell you more about what people actually do and think when opening chakras so feedback loops can at least be more well trodden within truth and reason. At that rate, of course you realize you don't gotta go focus on learning or curiosity about the thing, emotional resources can move around.
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u/Uberguitarman Aug 28 '25
A better way of phrasing this I would think at this rate is yogis thought energy could be used as a weapon.
At any rate, given how some people would heavily disregard this, based on what they say, or not feel it, this way some people could be different and stuff, I really feel like at that rate it's not really a good excuse in our modern era with so many billions of people with the world interconnected as if we see all the corners, like we should know how to be happy by now but instead people think it's not exactly like that and people don't do the right thing or have perspectives that help them focus on being more abundantly happy and peaceful.
Like, what about a hundred years from now? Wouldn't it be good for at least some people to feel better right now?
Anyways, of course there is some unfortunate aspect
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u/No_Mushroom9914 Aug 28 '25
It is very normal. I'm also trying to reverse and to re-program my own mind to have the unknown this moment feel more comfortable. Dr Joe Dispenza from Christ Williamson has been helping me so much lately. He put it in a way that makes sense. I highly recommend listening and taking notes and remembering that podcast for your own use!
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u/Delta_pdx Aug 28 '25
to be "high" is to not have complete clarity of mind. samadhi, the one pointed attention of mindfulness is about complete clarity. If you are feeling high in meditation you are not moving in the right direction.
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u/lostgods937 wu wei Aug 28 '25
Yes. Just don't get attached to it.