Meditation has some weird side-effects. They're not particularly predictable, nor is there a good science for explaining them.
I've lost any ability to be frightened by horror movies, and don't suffer imagination-based aftereffects either. Weird.
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It would be fair to ask how I can claim that's related to meditation, and obviously I can't prove it.
But I notice the number of situations where limbic responses go bone deep are decreasing. The system seems to modulate itself more actively.
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There is also a large extent to which emotional responses are trained and modelled, moreso than authentic.
You are acting out a script. "I'm scared, and this is how scared people act." Only, that part is just a story. Without it, there are only some sensations. Sometimes.
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I've had the understanding before, in some sense, but there's a difference between an "oh, that makes sense" intellectual sort of understanding...
... and actually getting to experience it in your own body, at a sensory and thought level.
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I mean, I was completely aware that "it's in muh brain" when I was experiencing horror-laced pseudohallucinations after a film or story.
But now, even the thought of having that reaction seems a bit absurd. "Oh, I'm getting a bit tense," is a pretty extreme reaction, currently.
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