Why You See Faces or Scenery In Meditation
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I've seen faces morphing after intense breathwork sessions. 😮😅😅 Like serioulsy it looked like my own face then, differnts shapes etc....
When are you going to drop the video... I see aliens while meditating?
I will give it a watch,you seem really excited to tell me why.
I don't see them during meditation, but I do see them at my most relaxed point before falling asleep.
Meditation and your "most relaxed point before falling asleep", are the same thing, wonderful person.
When your meditation keep getting deeper and deeper through good practice then you will experience hypnogogic imagery! In meditation
Same with me and it scares the heck out of me
I see a black snake as if he is in my lap and I can only see the top of his head.
Mine happens when I am aware that am done dreaming and am about to wake up in the morning but haven’t opened my eyes yet. Has never happened in meditation.
I see vivid colours when meditating 🧘♀️
I see faces when i close my eyes ready to go to sleep ✨ i knew automatically that i was seeing passed over spirit energy ,thank you for explaining this .
@artrecluse Proof, please. Failing proof, provide the evidence of your claim then explain it, in scientific terms, with verifiable references to peer-reviewed journals, please. Oh? You can't. So much for mere opinion, huh?
Hi same most nights
Same here.
It's happened to me for decades.. all the way back to my 20s. I came to this conclusion, myself. Sometimes really ugly faces, sometimes, very beautiful. Sometimes buildings... It's not happening as often, in my 70s, though. I would like to mention that every so often I see something from a past life. I will give an example I was trying to fall asleep and Suddenly, in moment I saw a man's hand with the largest ruby ring on it, you can imagine, it also was in vivid color, which is not always so, in these visions. It was so different from the usual places and faces, I woke up immediately. I felt a kind of horror, or terror, but it quickly pasted. I got the impression it was a Cardinal's hand.. tried to see his face, but didn't quite succeed. I've known for years that I was a victim of the Inquisition, in past life. My impression is that when they were torturing or questioning me, I had focused on that ring.. like one focuses on a mandala. When I deal with past life memories, I always pray about forgiveness and compassion... releasing the past to God. Like you said, focus on the Divine. Let the past fade away, forgive them for they knew not what they were doing.
I chanted Hare Krishna meditation and when I stopped chanting and was in silence,I saw Krishna playing with me as a young boy. He Rolled out of a cloud. Only happened once but wow.
I can not say thank you enough! I've been seeing people and places for a good while now, but NEVER could get an answer for it. Believe me ive wasted time and money trying to have this question answered. Ive also learned that if you go into meditation expecting to see these things you NEVER will. Its only when i go into meditation expecting absolutely nothing is when the faces and places come through the most. ❤🙏
Hi! I used to have these mini films run, and recently I had this occur again during meditation. It's a comfort to know what this is all about.
Here, have an accurate answer for free. It's mediumship, plain and simple.
In my meditation, I saw faces, and what caught me off guard was that it was an alien beings faces. It was soo vivid
Me too many times.
Yep! Me too 💕
Keep going it gets deeper. Have fun with it ❤❤❤
Me too! One "Being" was a woman in blue suit even woke me up in the Astral plane and saw myself and my partner sleeping in bed. This being opened a portal in my bedroom wall which I walked into and I got into this lush and wonderful place. The being introduced me to her colleagues and she let me see their massive spaceship. It was so vivid that every detail I can still remember like yesterday.
I see faces too in my meditations but it’s like seeing in an old photo negative. What can I do to start seeing more clearly ?
There's an excellent book by Todd Deviney (QHHT) called Expansion for Ascending Consciousness: Understanding the Universe, Consciousness, and Ascension, and it explains the science of expansion, for anyone wanting to know more about it. Thank you!
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The really fascinating thing for me, is that I can see eyes, faces and places clearly only when I meditate because I have aphantasia, a condition which means I cannot visualise for myself. That’s how I knew something magical was happening to me, rather than it being a result of my imagination. If I try to visualise anything, it’s blank. For anyone who doesn’t have aphantasia you won’t understand how exciting it is to actually see things when you close your eyes.
I have it too and the few time I see “something” it’s extremely noteworthy. I know it’s not mental images because what I see is not from this earth. It’s nothing I recognize here.
Me too!
At last,someone who understands. 99% of the time, I see faces, people, locations, vivid colors, underwater plants, aliens and the like. I see them talking but I can't hear them. Also most of the images seem to be surrounded in a veil with only the outer edges being clear. I also have aphantasia, so this is what I see when I meditate and have for years
Im the same
I'm autistic and it's difficult for me to visualize. But 90% of the time, when I meditate, I see flashes of faces. Some are beautiful and happy, other are ugly and bad. Don't understand this mix...
I can't meditate but I do see faces and places when I'm about to fall asleep, when I'm basically in the state between being awake and sleep.
When I first started meditating my brain couldn’t switch off like ‘expected’ but always when I got about 30mins in it was like a flick of a switch or like the same feeling when you lay down to sleep and that state you get into just before falling asleep. I think it’s the same thing but sitting up straight keeps you from fully going under. Keep practicing don’t give up to early good luck
@@obsess2222 Thank you 🙂
My wife's younger sister passed a couple of months ago. I laid down for my usual morning meditations after the shock had worn off. She was ten years younger than us and in poor health.
A bright light appeared with a lesser light revealing itself from behind the bright light. I felt unbridled joy coming from the small light. I knew she was OK and extremely happy, not fearful at all.
I was able to see her one more time before my mind convinced me that this could not be happening because we really didn't get along in this life. But in retrospect, I now think it was real and regret not communicating with her further.
Well, incredible one, "before my mind convinced me that this could not be happening." That's the whole point. What do you trust? Your brain's mind or your heart's experience?
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You can still speak to her spirit, the closer it is to when she died, the easier. Visualise her and tell her from your heart what you want to say. From a medium.
Hello, incredible person. I'd like to comment on this, "... before my mind convinced me that this could not be happening."
The human mind really is the grandest porky teller of them all, and it tells them to itself. If you want the truth then it's in your heart.
Something similar happened to me, and I honestly suspected that I'd gone quite mad, given the way I look at the world. I went looking for evidence, and I found it in spades.
Trust your heart, dear one. It's where your own truth is, no matter how you look at the world.
Love, peace, and Light ❤
I can’t believe I stumbled upon this video. Thanks so much @bensmithreal I’m 57 and this has been happening all of my life. I’ve been on a spiritual journey for the last 5 years and practicing meditation but I’ve been seeing these faces all of my life. Usually when I’m falling asleep or relaxing deeply with eyes closed (I guess I was meditating without realising). The faces are incredibly detailed but often more sepia than bright colours. Sometimes they move or open their mouths as if trying to speak. Sometimes they don’t appear to be human but more alien. I’ve always found it comforting but I’ve never found an explanation. I’ve also never found anyone else with the same thing happening so it’s nice to read all of the comments. Thanks again 🙏
It's when you get clairaudience as well and jump out of your skin that gets me 😂💗🌟
What do you hear?
@@neapealingonsmet hello 🤗 I usually hear someone talking but it's only part of a conversation, sometimes it's all mixed up a bit like a radio going through stations, sometimes music but it can be very overwhelming when lots of faces are coming through, namaste 🥰🕊️🙏
Me too. Its what really woke me up. It only happened a few times. It was loving ❤❤❤❤
Same!!! It is terrifying!! (but cool!)
@@mekylieme 🥰💖✨
Thanks a lot for this one Ben. I've been wondering about this for quite a while. I'll sometimes see faces close up or scenery almost as if at the end of a tunnel but as soon as I realize what's happening and try to acknowledge it they immediately fade and I can't even remember what the scene was even though a second prior it may have felt as though I was right there. I would only try to acknowledge because I was confused, but now I can just let it flow. So I really do appreciate the video as always.
I'm about 90% sure I saw somewhere I'd never been while concentrating on breath when randomly awake in bed, I later saw the real place. A brief moment of remote viewing.
I remote view like that too. But at 19 I knew I could astral travel, I don't often though, but when I do I know its a real place.
I see eyes… just one, and not from friendly, but they do not scary. I am bewildered at the details that I can see in the vision. I never can see a person, hear anything, but only eyes, human, or animal
i would say that's an angel because some angels like the ophanim have an eye in its center
I also see an eye, sometimes alone sometimes in the center of a round golden light
On time during meditation I saw the whole universe.
Meditation is like blowing up a balloon, every time you do it it gets easier and you expand it further ech time
Great analogy!
Oh that s why, thank you for this video. I also see an eye at times, feels like it s watching me. 👁️
Yes I see an eye as well!
Oh yeah? I often see an eye as well! Sometimes a gothic looking building along with the eye, I just always assume it had something to do with the third eye and left it at that.
Thank you! I've been wondering?! Yes! It's a flash that slowly fades away!
That was so helpful Ben. After all the many videos I’ve seen and books I’ve read, it’s the first time this has been properly explained. I have seen a few faces in meditation and I did think it was people in spirit. Good to have this confirmed. It’s the first time someone has actually explained what meditation is. I have a very logical mind and I need this type of teaching 😊
I see faces and places as I’m falling asleep, it’s comforting for me 🥰
I see people all the time when I meditate, have know Idea who they are , I just see them going about there day, it's like I'm watching the TV , I sometimes have people in my dreams all very random, I don't worry about it I have had it all my life , even when I'm out walking I have people non stop talking. I hadn't realised that other people do as well , that's good to know ☺️
The one time this did happen I just thought maybe I was seeing past lives. Thanks though for the explanation
I always described it to everybody as I am floating observer seeing stuff but without emotions....i can not ever react not that I have any urge too.. I can only observe.. I am loving it.. 🌹
This is so interesting and helpful. I’ve been doing a lot of meditation and affirmations to quantum jump to a different timeline and I’ve been seeing so many images pop up in my mind randomly. Most of the time it’s scenery of a place I’ve already been to but sometimes it’s a place I’ve never been to or images of people that I know and don’t know. It also happens a lot when I’m not meditating, for example, when I was washing dishes, I saw a matcha ice cream cone that I was eating in Tokyo but I’ve never been to Tokyo. I’ve been getting so many images I thought I was just remembering old memories or maybe I’m being too delusional in my affirmations. But this makes me feel better.
Thank you Ben! Much Love 🙏🏻🧘♂️❤
Just wow! I wondered what was going on! Thank you so much for this information ❤
Thank you for explaining the why I sometimes see faces and scenery. I'm so thankful for finding your channel as you have explained so many areas of meditation that I questioned in the past.
Thank you for sharing. Appreciated.🥰
Thank you for explaining this. I often see faces and places when I meditate and did not know until now. Amazing!
Thank you 🎉 it was so good to ander stand this thing its happening almost many times in my meditation, I look forward to next level teaching from you Master 🙏🏼❤
Thanks Ben. I meditated this morning and saw stuff like this practically the entire time. It seems to be getting easier and easier to get to that state for me too
Now I understand! I do see a lot of historical people who passed. I have seen Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Buddha, Joah of Arc, A Pirate called Drake, and many more. I usually see a tower going up or down, towns, or beautiful scenery. Also I have seen faces of people who are still alive but not living near me 🤔 Thank You for your help and information! 👌
Interesting info, thank you. When I meditate, I see different eyes that appear in my mind eye that are constantly changing. They are always open, never blinking, and never closed. But when I went and had my first Reiki session and I went into meditation, all of the different open eyes I usually see were closed, none were open and none were blinking. It’s as if they wanted me to simply BE & focus on love energy coming into my body, not them, during the Reiki.❤️
i cant believe i found you. you have many answers to many of my questions in regards my meditation englightment. thank you so much!!
Amazing!! Thank you for this connection & U can put into words so clearly. Gratitude. 😘🙏🙏🤟🏽
It is so nice to see things I had to figure out on my own to come into the mainstream sphere. It provides confirmation that my own answers are one the right track and if they are not it allows for course adjustment. You provide so much valuable information as opposed to some who say a lot while saying nothing at all. Thank you for your time and effort in sharing your knowledge.
Hey Ben ❤❤❤ Nice. . I have experienced the Divine and I (one and the same) during a light dream state we were watching a movie together about a situation in my life . It was beautiful. During meditation I saw millions of star like gold energy ,as if saying we are all here with you . Many experiences . The Divine recently through clairaudience alerted me that Edgar Casey wanted to speak with me telepathically,I said sure,so I meditated and then got a pen and wrote down the msg. A beautiful message. All of this and much more began with meditation ❤❤❤. You are doing an awesome job with your teaching. Thank you and I enjoy and appreciate you
Amazing! To finally hear someone explain this. I see faces coming in and out as well as what seems like a rocky intricate sea floor but the perspective of being under a microscope. So strange. Thankyou.
So that explains it!!! Thank you so much. I thought I might be having issues.
Thank you, Ben. It all makes sense to me know.
This is crazy. I was just googling for information on this and then you post a video on this topic. You KNEW!!! 😂
Thank you, Ben! 🙏🏻 As I've mentioned before in your other videos, I see faces and places, basically images when I meditate. I don't see them as often anymore nowadays, but when I just started it was quite intense. I've always been curious to know what it means and how it works (I assumed it works similarly like when we start to dream as we drift off to sleep). The way you explained it is one of the best and clearest I've ever heard 🙏🏻✨
I saw faces right before falling asleep for many years. Most were happy faces but sometimes they were scary! I searched for years trying to find an answer & found that it’s called Hypnagogia. It’s the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. Causes can be if you’re under stress, being over tired, have insomnia, anxiety or depression. Seeing faces or animals, sleep paralysis, lucid dreams & muscle jerks are common during the hypnagogic phase. That’s the explanation science gives anyway.
But I resonate w/Ben’s video as the things I’ve seen, heard & felt while meditating cannot be explained by science. 💫 ⭐️ 💫
Wow! Very useful information. I must admit these things have gone on for me for years...sometimes I just have to close my eyes for a few moments without even the intention of meditating yet...I must be there anyway. Is it possible to consistently enter into meditation this deeply when all you're meaning to do is relax for a moment in your hectic day? Lol The questions I've had about the things you're explaining have been on my heart for a long time...just WOW. 😂❤😭
If you practice long enough, that altered meditative state becomes your permanent state of mind. It seems to me that you've achieved that state, which is a very good sign. :)
Hi I’ve never meditated before but whenever I close my eyes, I’ll see faces that flash before my eyes, not just before my sleep, in fact especially when I close my eyes when I am shampooing. This phenomenaI have been happening since young so I thought everyone encounter this and it’s normal until one day an image of a gypsy came up and it “booed” me, it felt a lil scary so I asked my friends if it happened to them, only then did I know that that doesn’t happen to anyone of them.
Thank you so much this makes such sense. I sometimes see people, places etc and never knew why. I then started to expect it but as you say it then doesn’t come. So now I “go with the flow”. Thanks Ben your explanations are very easy to follow. 👌
Thank u that is/was a beautiful explanation to a question I’ve had for a very long time it, seeing faces and places happens often and at a rapid speed as I meditate subsides just as quick but I see so many so much, I really appreciate your insight.
I have never heard such a clear explanation of the "whys" of meditation. I have questioned this topic for many years. Now, I feel, I can expand beyond it. You're a wonderful teacher! Please keep on sharing your insights.
I love your channel, thank you.
This is very helpful to me. I’m a visual learner and the way you explained helps me tremendously. Thank you very very much❤❤❤❤
Fascinating! My experience is a tad different. I am and have been on a journey to get pregnant. It’s been a beautiful, spiritual experience so far and when I meditate or have a Reiki session and acupuncture and am fully relaxed, I will see a face of a baby, similar to what you would see on a 4D scan. Colors and a baby’s face are pretty regular for me.
Thank you Ben 🙏🏽🦋☀️
Thank you for sharing this. I have been seeing people objects,images in my dreams.
Thank you do much! Especially not trying to force some type of medical reasoning behind spiritual experiences
Very helpful and synchronistic that this appeared as I had been asking for guidance concerning this phenomena. I had come to the conclusion that it was probably something about the astral realm. At first it was disturbing but now I am more relaxed about it but also, I don’t necessarily want to play in that domain. I see these when I close my eyes to go to sleep not necessarily in meditation.
Thanks a bunch!!
Your video is again revealing and the suggestion given to go beyond the faces and places is helpful as well. We rise in consciousness 🙂↕️ as we let go and open and it's wonderful to get these insights so we can have more clarity about where our elevation is taking us. I have again experienced this past morning in a semi conscious state of ( almost falling back to sleep) a sound hearing 3 knocks. This happens once in a while. This can be a few months or maybe even around 6 months apart. It seems to occur when going through something profound or a change. Usually upsetting times or realizations in my daily life seem to be happening due to some change of events. This does not produce Fear. I'm just trying to understand the purpose of this phenomenon. I Thank You again Ben for the mist helpful insights into meditation and how we are raising our vibrations in our physical world experience and beyond. 🙏 Namaste 💖
Thank you for sharing, Ben. During meditation, I usually feel the brush on my body, or face, or a slight wind blowing on my face or forehead, or an itch on my face or neck. Then I knew that I am in meditative zone and that a natural being is with me. My feeling of goose bump can go from slight to a tornado like on my body. I hear spiritual people say that, that is because each individual natural being has different level of vibration energy, which I thought that made sense to me. Very rare that I see scenery. If I did see it, I couldn't make out a clear sense of it. Clairvoyant vision is not my strong suit, but I tend to get clairvoyant vision unexpectedly because I meditate often. I believed "What you seek is seeking you." is true statement. I never liked to be surprised especially in a supernatural sense, and maybe it is why so far I have not seen faces during my meditation. If I did see it someday, it is because I consciously seek it.
Like others in the comments, I’ve seen flashes of people, places and objects for a long time, not understanding why. This is the best explanation I’ve ever come across and really encouraging. Thank you for all the work you’re doing to educate and share your experience.
It is nice to see younger people getting into the exploration of these phenomena. I also started at this long road at 17 and though under some guidance for decades, I was never fully prepared for what I would learn.
Enjoy it and enter the stream!
Though the journey is very long; once entered - you will never again fail to find the Dharma.
Hi Ben. Very good explanation, makes sense to me. During a meditation session some weeks ago i saw a woman in her 20s sketching. I watched for a moment. Then she turned and became aware of my observation. I was thrown out of my meditation. I have seen people and faces before. But this was the first time they were doing something else and noticed me. This was probably only seconds. Manifestin as thier previous carnation is like the matrix analogy. Residual self image. Your enrgy is shining to me. Thanks for an informative video.
i have been wondering for awhile now this very question!! thanks!
Blessings thank you so much , I wish we had this taught in all our schools as PE …I’ve learn a lot!! I am also learning to tune into my psychic abilities as we all have them. Meditation helps me center and make wiser choices in my life. It sharps my abilities 👏🥰🌸💗🤩🥳
Really interesting Ben , thank you. Watched this video thinking I’m not too interested in what this actually means . But found myself enjoying the knowledge and reasoning behind it all. So great thank . 🏴🙏
Thank you for your helpful explanation 🙌🥰
Awesome video thank you 🙏🏾 I see faces and all kinds of things! Was going to go to the doctor but didn’t want to get locked up 🤣🤣🤣
I love it…thanks
Hello Shell here from Florida! I just found your channel and subscribed. I enjoy the way you break things down and explain them. Thank you for your teachings I'm looking forward to experiencing more ~Shell
OMG I get this! I have never heard anyone talk about it!
I see this pretty consistently at the start of my meditations. I felt that getting caught up in the visuals was distracting me from going deeper so I just ignore them and continue. I wondered what they were and this video came up in my feed today. I would imagine that some of those faces might be of others who are still alive but have managed to enter the astral realm. The first time I saw faces was at a Dr. Joe Dispenza event and after the meditation I saw several people I recognized from the flashing faces I had seen.
I haven’t seen faces but I once experienced being at a location that looked quite foreign. I stood atop a precipice that overlooked red rock formations and pools of deep blue water. It was so vibrant, vivid, and real! When I realized this I knocked myself out of meditation. I can still remember quite clearly what I saw. Pretty amazing.
Excellent. 😎 thank you
Thank you for this. This morning, during meditation, I saw both faces and landscapes. But, first….when I started meditation, I used to see very vivid colours.
I had this experience today. Thank you for the explanation and the tips.
I find it hard to visualise but I have visions like this quite easily. Funny.
Thanks again.
Thankyou,I have seen faces as I fall asleep at night,it doesnt alarm me but it's great to get an explanation
Interesting. I’ve seen moving images for years, especially before I fall asleep. I’ve also heard these images can be related to the memories of the soul coming online.
New to your channel. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this video! I am a meditation novice but have experienced seeing faces & places several times. I thought my mind was making it up or I was dreaming, but it felt like I was more of an observer . Nice to know this is common & Im not crazy lol
Thank you😊
Thank you 🌷🌷🌷
Thank you for this! Early on in meditation practice I would see faces , a kaleidoscope of colors, and things that i have no reference for. I didn't know what was happening.
I’ve seen my own face with my eyes closed many times. I assumed my vision lifted up out of my body. ✨
it happens to me but right before I start dosing off to sleep.
I didn’t realize until within the last year, I have aphantasia. I do “see” when I dream, however I’ve had experiences with color while meditating. I’ve also seen faces (of living souls) yet those faces are like looking through a mist or water. Same with seeing places. It’s as if o experience these things as if I’m sensing a vibratory frequency (I don’t know how else to say it. It’s as if it’s a recognition of “energy”… it’s more “felt”
I’ve seen faces while I’ve been meditating. Thank you for the explanation. I always thought it was the astral plane.
I enjoyed flying down tunnels the other day while meditating. It was as beautiful golden tunnel and I just kept flying down through it. It was a lot of fun.
Yes, I see faces quite often, however, it has never bothered me. I also see oceans of colour, which is overwhelming but in a good way, it's nice. Greens, reds, purples and blues. Never seen any of your videos before, the thumbnail on this one caught my eye. So I shall watch a few more of your vids. Cheers.
Merci 🙏🏻🦋
🎉Thanks ❤
Thanks for this!
Once, during meditation I saw a person with a crystal in one hand, trying to arrest a person. The person grap the arm of the man and then the other man(some sort of police) used the cristal to make him stop agression.
I have many sceneries during meditation. This one was the craziest.
When I first started over a year ago I was blown away I saw an owl, a black bear, eyes or a single eye, colours, flash’s of light, a gold scarab beetle, an ankh and then rolling short snippets of scenes and scenarios etc etc but that only lasted for the first couple months and then it’s just been black since. I’m not expecting to see anything either I just enjoy the energy and I do it daily sometimes twice
Thank you for your beautiful explanation.They have been very helpful in my nascent journey..I was wondering if you can do a video on why we see symbols during meditation?
This is the first time that I’ve heard anyone address this… Ben, did this come from your teacher or based on your observations and interpretation? I’m very familiar with this phenomena and have personally learned that it’s best to keep it to oneself. I’ve been a student of Buddhism for decades and have asked teachers about these visuals without any answers or encouragement to pursue these visuals, being told that they are a hinderance to my meditation practice. Because of this response, and other reasons, I’m now studying other spiritual practices that accept visions and “mystical” experiences. I long ago decided that all fingers point to the same moon so it doesn’t matter where I hang my hat, so to speak. I would like an answer to my question… how do you know your explanation is valid? Are there suttas to support what you present in this video?
Hello, yes I have experienced this and yes the answer to why came from my teacher (who I once met me on a higher plane!)🙏
. I love Buddhism, but only a God-realised individual or Avatar would be able to know this (I’m not referring to me, but to my teacher). Buddhists and other meditators would only be able to give ideas, but not absolute answers.
The reasons they teach not to give these experiences importance is twofold: partly because many people delude themselves into believing they are having a profound experience, when actually it’s a trick of the mind. Two - because people become attached to the experiences and make the experiences the goal of their meditation. This then becomes a hindrance to their growth. This is why I advise to enjoy the experience for a few minutes, then move on. Hope this helps!
An oak leaf floating on water.
An open human eye.
Two large rocks in front of trees.
A symmetrical hedge maze from above.
These are visions I’ve had. They were immersive. Not a flash. I was there. I now know the meaning of them.
“There was within me a stillness of silence, and I heard the Blessedness whereby I knew my real self…..And I turned to myself and saw the Light that surrounded me and the Good that was in me, I became divine.” --Allogenes (NHL Codex XI)
Dear Ben Smith,
Thank you for making the great about the meditation experiences.
I see faces when I had deep meditation, I see faces in different angles. Very rarely I see sky and some times different colors of starts moving. I see that start through the head, I see through a hole on top of my head. Can you please explain what is different meaning of seeing faces , scenarios and sky ?
Thank you for doing amazing work of teaching meditation. Love you ❤
I am now in my eighties and as a small child faces were constantly scaring me when i shut my eyes to sleep, always old bearded men ,the faces came and went .As I got older I would see places , then much later it would be women. Now it is just light and colours but mostly blank. So glad it has at last been explained.
Thanks Ben. I’m always seeing faces when I lay down for sleep. Usually not human. It’s progressed now to seeing them move around and do things. Other times it’s very fast flashes of 1000s of faces, or faces morphing into other faces quickly.
I see faces emerging from the darkness. My favorite is a landscape pop up in full color.