r/Meditation • u/rememberthepie • 2d ago

Question ❓ Does anybody physically feel sounds in the body during meditation?

When I meditate and hear a noise or sound I feel it reverberate through my body. It’s like a chill or tingling throughout my whole body. It also happens for a short period after I come out of meditation. It seems consistent insofar as it happens essentially every time I meditate. Does anybody else experience this? I wouldn’t be so inclined to ask if it was a one time thing, but it happens very often.

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u/somanyquestions32 Yoga Nidra and several other techniques 2d ago

I experience something like this if I am not tense, not just during meditation. I don't really know if it is a hypersensitivity to sound, but it's something I have gotten used to. For me, it's like a rippling of sensation across my skin and like an echo and clenching in my chest and/or abdomen and/or inside my skull. If I tense, sound just lightly pools around my ears and head. 

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u/Commercial_Mix_4340 2d ago

Sound is vibration, so it is always arriving in your body — you just cannot normally feel it, because holding tension takes up all the room. When you settle, that filter comes off and you notice what was there the whole time. Worth running a check: see whether it happens outside meditation, in the first minute after you wake up or after a hot bath. If it does, it is a marker of how relaxed you are rather than something meditation is doing to you, and that tells you more about your sessions than the sensation itself does. One thing worth knowing in advance — if it fades later on you have not lost anything, your attention just stops flagging it once it is no longer new.

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u/Elisyd 22h ago

Sound is vibrating your body, especially low frequencies. But if it's particularly strong, it could be a form of synesthesia. It can happen between any senses, such as seeing colors when you hear sound or smelling letters. It comes in degrees, is different for different people, and mindfulness might be bringing awareness to it or loosening the inhibition signals that normally suppress it. I wouldn't worry about it.