Wow.

[Skeepsis]

Apparently, if you concentrate hard enough on a particular thing, you will reach an altered state of conciousness. This altered state is said to be blissful, and Buddhists call it Nirvana. Is this true?

Naturally, since I am human, I would like to pursue this blissful state. But does it really take years of practise? I already have good concentration. I've tried concentrating solely on some music and nothing else, and for a moment I really wasn't aware of anything else. But it is extremely hard.

[xKore]

Maybe it's just lucid dreaming?

[ShadowChao96]

You could just be high

[Allocer91]

Even if it does take years of practice, i'd say it would be worth it, espically if you have nothing else to do.

[Tramps]

It's called killing your eyes. The so-called 'bliss' was what was discovered by Tibetan monks if I recall correctly. They would train themselves to focus on one object for days. When you're succeeding in doing it, your eyes begin to black from around the edges and close in on the thing you're focusing on. This kills the nerves in your eyes if it goes on for too long, but leaves you in a state where your eyes are open but you can see the phosphenes.

Blinking cancels itself out and nerve damage is slowly repaired. The blackness you were experiencing goes away after a few seconds.

[m4x0]

Get some drugs in ya :)

[Zerok]

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