Weird body feeling

[baodur]

While I was meditating I entered deep focus and then felt as if my upper body is slightly turned to the left. I started using rope technique for the first time and I visualized it pretty good but then I started feeling like my upper body is so turned to the left that it made me quite discomforting. Anyone know why or what it was?

[MisterJingo]

Deeper meditative levels reduce ones awarenss of the physical body. This can have strange effects such as feeling bodily distortions (common ones are twisting, or body parts vanishing, or even body parts merging together into a single part).
It seems the mind makes up for reduced sensory input (the same principles on which sensory deprivation tanks work).

[baodur]

I started feeling like my body was twisting and it made me so discomforting that I had to stop. Do you think in time I'll get used to it or something similar? Thanks for replaying.

[MisterJingo]

Had you been meditating for long when this happened? Some of the feelings of deep meditaion (when one borders or drops below the level of sleep consciously (or where sleep would usually take over)) can be quite uncomfortable. In my experience the same sensations do not always arise, so you might not feel such a thing again.
Was this twsiting sensation equally uncomfortable everywhere? or was there certain spots where it was worse?

[baodur]

I was meditating for about 10-15 min I'm not sure. I felt it only in the upper body(I was sitting cross-legged) like I'm stretching and rotating to the left to the level of discomfort(the feeling intensified as more time passed)

[MisterJingo]

The reason I asked if it was centred on any location is that meditation can take away any barriers we have erected (subconsciously) to hide pain. So the uncomfortable feeling can suggest some form of strain or injury in the physical body. Sometimes when I meditate, aches which I didn't notice can almost make me grit my teeth in their sudden intensity.

[baodur]

Thanks for clearing that up