The other night I was meditating and instead of the usual dark room, I closed my curtains and shut off my computer lights as well, also putting a shirt in the crack under my door. Not completely dark, but really close to it. I could sit in one spot and depending on where it was I could close my eyes and open them and not know the difference.

I was doing my usual meditation, sitting cross legged, back straight, looking into the dark trying to clear my mind. I usually focus inside, but after a while of my normal meditation I began to physically look outward into the darkness. I felt the need to breathe in and out, didn't think this was out of the ordinary since during meditation my breathing becomes very low. I started to breathe in and out of my nose. The keywords became, in and out, I repeated them in my mind. I started to feel a little fear as I was breathing, the light specks that you always see in your eyes became clustered like when you rub your eyes hard and open them. After a couple breaths these cleared away and I saw a few white specks in front of my, kind of like looking into the sky at night. Then I stopped the breathing (not entirely, I returned to my normal breathing). The I felt like everything in front of me was in a circle. But within that circle was, kind of another world, one god (if there is any) could see into. It was like I was in a vacuum. I could hear and was still away of the outside world, but I felt like it couldn't possibly affect me in any way. My body kind of melted away, I was still away of it but it's importance wasn't apparent. I visualized the world and some other things.

I stopped because my leg was feeling numb due to my posture. I didn't have to stop but I felt like I should. What felt like a little numbness was half my leg being almost completely numb. Many people try to say during meditation to visualize the openness of the darkness within and such, but only until now did I really see how far that can reach.

Was this a trance? Questions? Comments? Similar experiences? Any experiences during meditation you'd like to share?