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I’ve had similar experiences after my first time attending a retreat. It was particularly pleasurable yet scary, I hadn’t expected meditation to dramatically affect me that way. I remember thinking that I had underestimated all these seemingly hyperbolic statements about the power of mind’s clarity and deep senses of bliss. The fear came I think from not knowing how to relate to it and also from not having a cause, such as drugs or a mental illness. Luckily I had a meditation teacher who I could confess that I felt like I was Jesus or I was crazy. He laughed a bit and understood and talked me down. Told me it would wear off, eat normally, exercise, sleep-in other words ground myself.

And it did wear off. Seems to be a common experience, a fruit of meditation, yet still something that needs to be integrated, and as Davide said, taken with humor.

It helps to have a teacher or community who can relate to what you’re goin through so you don’t feel so “out there”.

And the dharma is amazing 🙂

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