No, it did what it's supposed to, it induced trance awareness, something you were clearly not ready for.
Symptoms of trance, or mind awake body asleep are: Numbness, tingling, hyperawareness, electric-like vibrations, visions, noises, voices, and energy symptoms. The muscle twitching was probably because of the binaurals (I'll get more into it as I explain what they are and what they do.)
Those are not Kundalini symptoms- if that's what the Wiki article said, it's probably incomplete. Many systems of thought call everything related to altered states Kundalini, which in a way isn't wrong, because Kundalini is simply your energy body awakening. However, your symptoms are much more mundane. For a proper list of Kundalini symptoms, look at the stickied
thread in this forum, it has better information.
Now,
binaural beats are sounds that are rhythmic that are piped into both ears at the same time. So you are hearing 'rat-a-tat' in both ears. How hemispheric synchronization works is, both sides are beating at slightly different frequencies, and your brain will create a third strobe or tone, at the difference of the frequencies. This puts the brain at this frequency while it is listening to it, which is theta, which is the frequency in which most meditators are able to access expanded awareness.
Something that should have been in the binaurals you used is the warning that all strobing of all kinds can cause epileptic seizures. Of course, you have to be epileptic to get them, but if you are and didn't know about it, it's a way to find out.
Some frequencies of beats (usually relaxation frequencies, not trance frequencies) cause this symptom in 'normal' people- I get it with some beats and not with others. It's nothing to be alarmed about, it's just something that happens.
The muscle twitching you experienced could have been caused by the same response to the rhythmic strobing of the beats, but this is a temporary brain response, and not permanent.
However: Muscle twitching is a normal part of going to sleep, and it happens to everyone. The thing is, that most people don't notice it (or much of it) because they're numb and asleep, but if you just experienced an awake trance state, you are now experiencing all these things about your body you didn't know happen, and are then freaking out about it.
Have you ever looked at someone else when they're sleeping? You can see the twitch. It happens more often to babies, because their sleep is a bit different than an adult, but it happens to you while in REM, at the very least.
The tension that you are now experiencing may be causing the other symptoms- possibly your sleep states are out of whack, and this causes the other numbness. When you're panicked, there is no energy for sex.
Yes, as soon as you calm down and get a good night's sleep (or a few, depending on how long you've been sleep disrupted).
It does. Before you use any mind altering device, you should do all the necessary research about it, to avoid problems like this. Also, your age is the age in which some mental illnesses develop or come out- that is why we discourage anyone younger than 18 to embark in some practices, and if they do (my 15 year old son meditates, for example, but he was taught what to expect when he started, younger than.) they need the necessary information to not have the results you just did.
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