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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Yeah, those sorts of (for lack of better words) energetic effects are common.
I've had a lot of that happen while meditating, or during/after postural yoga. Also started having it spontaneously, in everyday life. The more I meditate, the more it happens.