Hi DP,

Great question! It sounds like what you do is a form of daydreaming. If you are watching it all and not becoming attached to any of it that would be a form of meditation.

I think meditation is about awareness. It is about creating a space for your higher Self to emerge. I remain still in a quiet area and am in a state of awareness. If a thought emerges I watch it and let it float on by. I try not to judge anything that occurs during meditation. I generally start by being aware of my breathing. I think being completely in the here and now is meditating.

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Yeah, it is quite true that what i do is closer to daydreaming than meditation, But you know, for me , meditation is a way of finding out who you are, of discovering your true self, a way of evolving spiritually and mentally. I already tried to become thoughtless, it didn't work, i guess it's a lack of patience, but i personally don't see how not thinking about anything could help you evolve in any way, because in that state you're unconscious, quite like if you were dead for a moment while when you actually think about something , you're also not conscious of what is going on around you, but you can put yourself in different situations, live different adventures and know how you would react if this or that happens.

Sometimes when someone asks you "what would you do if...happens?" and you give an answer, you can get surprised when the situation happens in reality noticing that you do the exact oposite of what you said you would do. In such case it meant that you don't know yourself as well as you thought you did. Well when you deeply daydream, you can creat anything you want around you, creat any situation and then you can see what you would really do if that specific event really happened because in that state of awake dreaming, you believe that what is around you is happening for real (just like when you dream while you're asleep) until you "come back to reality".

That is why i call this a form of meditating because you're visitating your own mind, discovering thoustands of new things about yourself, while when there is no thoughts, nothing particular happens, a thoughtless meditation helps more when you want to let go of your anger and be in harmony with yourself and others.

Peace be upon you

DeistPrincess

Let me just mention a few things about meditation. One is that meditation can be done for a variety of purposes including no purpose at all.

Secondly, some feel that meditation must just involve sitting and saying "Om" continuously, but that's only one form of meditation. That form doesn't work too well for me because I get too antsy so, instead, I rely more on walking meditation.

Third, all of us meditate at one time or another even though we may not be aware of it. If one is stuck in deep concentration, or maybe just letting our minds float (like "daydreaming"), these are really types of meditation as well.

There's really nothing magic about meditation, and different people have different takes as to how to use it (such as Therevada versus Zen Buddhists).

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