Chapter 63: First Experience with Meditation
Previously, my senior had mentioned the benefits of the Meditation Room and naturally touched upon some of its functions.
The Meditation Room is essentially a tool that assists with meditation, as with aromatherapy. It can provide me with an excellent environment and atmosphere for meditation, with adjustable lighting and sound being the most basic operations.
The Meditation Room naturally stores various soothing audio tracks that can help with meditation, and there are even solidified spells with various effects that I can adjust as I wish.
For example, there’s a calming spell that can influence the mind, allowing a person to quickly enter a state prepared for meditation, regardless of their current state.
Another example is a mild hypnosis spell that helps prevent oneself from being disturbed or constrained by random thoughts, putting one in a mental state conducive to meditation.
In short, there are many solidified spell effects, from physical conditions to hormonal secretions within the body, and from one’s psychological state to thought and memory, all of which can be adjusted according to personal circumstances.
Additionally, the area where the Meditation Room is located has the highest level of dream activity. Although I don’t know what this means, I have already heard the term “dream” from several seniors.
It seems that meditation is, to some extent, related to dreams.
After finding the controller in the Meditation Room, I lay down in an extremely comfortable position.
That’s right, I lay down.
Meditation does not have a fixed pose restriction; the book also stated that if lying down is comfortable, it’s perfectly fine to meditate in that position.
I adjusted my lying posture slightly, with the incense burner positioned right beside my head.
The scent of the incense surged toward my forehead, but it wasn’t too overpowering or nauseating.
Closing my eyes, I continued to follow the meditation guidelines, filling my mind with content I had previously read in the book.
Adjusting my state and controlling my thoughts sounds simple, but it’s difficult to execute.
So, in the end, I still had to rely on the solidified spells here to facilitate my self-adjustment.
After activating the spell, the results weren’t as good as I had imagined. It seems that the threshold for beginners in meditation is indeed high.
After my initial attempt, I gave up on hoping to enter meditation today.
That was unrealistic; far too unrealistic.
The effects of the incense even made me a bit drowsy.
In the end, after confirming that I had no clues, I started to entertain some defeatist thoughts.
Doing nothing and lying here for two hours can also be quite torturous, you know?
After relaxing, especially under the influence of the spell that forced me to relax, I suddenly realized that without my subjective will to restrain myself, my Spirit Vision activated on its own. This state was reminiscent of when it first opened up upon my arrival in this world.
I did not stop this state from continuing. Even with my eyes closed, the Spirit Vision had already escaped the biological constraints of the eyes.
What I saw was merely one perspective I could accept, a normal way to perceive the Spirit Vision perspective.
By actively rejecting the visual limitations of my Spirit Vision, the so-called Inner World presented itself unreservedly in my cognition.
I had explored the concept of Spirit Vision and the distinction between the Inner and Outer Worlds before, but the information circulating in society regarding these concepts is mostly speculation and personal definitions.
No one has conclusively stated what is correct. Perhaps a person released a video explaining the Outer and Inner Worlds a while ago, and just a few days later, someone else made a video debunking their findings while promoting their own theory.
After all, Spirit Vision and similar extraordinary powers have always been a topic of interest online, never going out of style.
At this moment, I felt as if I had activated a three-dimensional God’s-eye view, which was even more terrifying than what descriptions of mental powers suggested.
In this perspective, the distance between objects was merely information; the forms of objects were also purely information. If one failed to understand, it became an incomprehensible visual mosaic.
In this place, the walls were no longer limiting; I could easily sense that the senior beside me was leisurely changing the incense for her burner.
I could also see many seniors remaining still, as if meditating.
So… what is meditation?
I looked at the seniors under the Spirit Vision state; this was my first time consciously exploring the information I had previously overlooked through this perspective.
The presentation of information under the Spirit Vision state has no limits, but my brain has its limits.
So, when I was an infant, in order to survive, I had to learn to filter out useless information and ignore the unknown. Otherwise, I never knew when my mind would burst from the overwhelming influx of information.
This time, I actively pushed aside the overlooked information, even if it could potentially put me in danger.
However, overlooking had become my habit, even a form of self-protective instinct, making it inherently difficult to go against life and instinct.
I tried for a long time, but it seemed like I only ended up with some useless information. I couldn’t even respond to this information or understand what it represented.
Nonetheless, I persisted.
Until…
“What is this…?”
I instinctively wanted to ask, because I felt like I had uncovered something remarkable. It resembled a space that felt like the Witch Academy wrapped in a curtain wall.
But it was a small and very illusory area, as if it could break at any moment.
When I realized this information, I looked at all the seniors, and most of them appeared to be in such an illusory space.
My brain raced, trying to match this new information with what I already knew.
Ultimately, I barely found a potential link.
“Meditation Space.”
That concept was mentioned in the book!
A mental space subjectively derived in a meditative state!
This space is indeed not as “solid” as the academy’s curtain wall, and even the “feel” it gives me is quite elusive. So does such a mental space arise during meditation?
Can I do it?
Thinking of this made me feel as if I had found a clue, which was quite exhilarating.
This was another perspective that Spirit Vision provided to me. It was clear that as a transmigrator, I had some special privileges.
After experiencing the initial excitement, I gradually calmed down because I realized that I seemed to lack such a “meditation space.”
And I had no idea how to generate such a space.
This felt like a dead end, breaking my state of excitement, as if I had discovered a true but useless truth.
It was like the absurd conclusion of “the bigger the banana, the larger the peel.” Can you say it’s wrong?
Not really, but it means nothing to me.
So… how can I meditate, after all? I truly must be useless, right?
Although my senior said that those prodigious geniuses shouldn’t exist, I still yearned to pursue that kind of talent.
Though I had mentally prepared for it.
However, personally arriving at the conclusion that it doesn’t work still dealt a significant blow to my emotions.
I placed my hands on my hips, sighed, and silently headed back.
