Question: I had been actively meditating for a couple of weeks. I stopped because of unusual things that happen.

After a good 5 minutes, when I feel relaxed, I increase my breathing rate to 27-30 breaths/minute. I do this to as it evokes a ‘tingle’ sensation. Once I feel it my breathing returns to a normal rate, usually after a minute.
The ‘tingle’ generally begins in my lower extremity and I can shift it around. I can build on the sensation, basically intensifying it until my whole body is affected. It is then my whole body begins to tremor - seizure-like, to a point where I fall from sitting position (I can do this when I am lying in bed just concentrating on the roof as well) although the last few times I meditated I seemed to have bypassed the tremor stage. When the tremor stops, my muscles are all seized up and twisted. The 'tingle' is still there and remains intensified. It is not just a slight tingle, but almost like a continuous humming electric shock. My body then slowly begins to relax to a point where I start to feel disconnected. It feels like I am either sinking into the ground or projecting outward. The experience is intense. This is when I pull out because I don't know what will happen if I continue. I guess the main reason I pull out is because I don't know if I am still breathing or not, though I have never had to gasp for air or anything like that.
I am consciously aware of what is happening and it is like all my other senses are blocked out; if someone was to walk in and talk to me I could completely ignore them. Afterward, when I get up and walk around I feel so light as if I am floating.
I am a medical student and do not want to disclose any of this with my doctor in case he deems me unfit to practice. I requested testing for temporal lobe epilepsy, to be safe, which come back negative.
I am top of my class although I know that I could be doing much, much better hence the attempts at meditation. What is your opinion of what is happening? Should I continue meditating? Is what I've explained just a phase of meditation that I need to get past? Would I be wasting my time investigating it more? I don't want to get all caught up in the spiritual side of things unless it provides some kind of significant beneficence to my studies.
I am also diagnosed adult ADHD last year when I was 21. I started treatment on dexamphetamine. I was on it for about 6 months, small dose 2 x 5mg a day. I stopped taking them about 4 months ago because they were not making much of difference, even when I altered to a higher dose on occasions. I am booked in to see a neuropsychologist next month for dyslexia assessment because I don't think it is ADHD. I am investigating these things because I know in terms of academia I am not functioning at an optimal level (although I am still top of class), just as an athlete knows when they are not performing at their best.
Not sure if this is relevant, but no history of depression or schizophrenia. Little anxiety, but no more than the average person. On no medications.
Any advice, please.


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What is the significance of what is happening? If I do this a few times a day will it improve any of my cognitive functioning, or would I be wasting my time?

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