I’ve been trying to astral project for the last several months and have had no success doing so. This isn’t about that however. It’s about a theory I’ve developed since then.
Because of trying to AP I had to learn how to go into deep trance states. About a month ago I was thinking about the similarities between being high and the mental state that you are in when you open your eyes and leave the trance. I realized that they felt very similar but when I opened my eyes and began moving around again that feeling of being “high” lasted quite briefly. It’s like my brain connected the movement to being back in a normal state of mind again.
So one time I tried to see if I could prolong this state when I opened my eyes by concentrating deeply on staying in the trance. It worked but I still jumped out of it when I began moving again. Next time I changed my intention that when I began moving I was still going to be in a trance. I started off by opening my eyes and then slowly moved by hand in a rhythmic pattern back and forth in the air. I could feel myself slipping out of the state but stayed concentrating and I eventually got use to doing that movement. I continued this with my other arms and legs until almost my entire body was in motion but I was still in the trance. Finally I started moving my eyes back and forth, trying desperately to stay in the trance.
I then stood up. Nothing had changed, I was still in a trance. Less, it was a weak trance but it was one nonetheless.
I began listening to music which is something that I always do when I’m high, and it sounded amazing. It was so deep and ethereal. But I quickly ran into a problem which ended the trance. This addition of a sense pulled me back into a normal mind state. I resolved this another time by starting the volume on the music exceedingly low and working my way up while getting used to the sound.
Two days ago I got into the deepest trance of my life and applied the same methods to me getting up. I felt so fucked up. I couldn’t think about anything for more than a few seconds and time moved so slowly. But it made me think again, what if I kept going? What if I kept getting more and more used to being in this trance state while doing normal activities? What if I just kept going deeper while I’m meditating and then awoke myself but stayed in the trance? What would my world be like?
It also made me think if drugs are just putting you into brain wave states that can be achieved by meditating and trances? Maybe that’s why you feel so similar? Is it then possible to achieve the same results with trances that you could on something like shrooms?