I was meditating, simply feeling "grateful" with my heart.

That feeling initially started from my own spontaneous emotions, and gradually shifted to gratitude for those around me, and gratitude for the people close to me.

It seems that the scope of that gratitude is expanding, from personal feelings to the surrounding environment, to the people close to me, and then to the regional level.

I interpret this as not necessarily having purified the entire region, but rather having removed some kind of cognitive obstacle within myself. It's as if a huge nest, like a cocoon, that had been dwelling in my perception of Tokyo suddenly disappeared, and the cocoon instantly vanished, leaving only the traces of the nest.

Initially, I was simply meditating on feeling "grateful" with my heart, and expressing gratitude to someone who might be my wife in a past life or a future wife, or to my mother. However, gradually, the object of that gratitude naturally shifted to the region where I currently live, which is Tokyo.

Then, as I looked at Tokyo and expressed gratitude to it, I saw, along with the image of somewhere in Tokyo, perhaps near Meguro or Takadanobaba, something like a huge cocoon that seemed to be drawing energy from Tokyo.

I didn't feel any particular desire to defeat it or anything like that, but simply thought, "What is this?" and continued the meditation, that is, the "gratitude" meditation, as before.

There was something like a strange cocoon-like nest, and while I think it might be something unpleasant, I didn't feel particularly disgusted, but rather in a fairly neutral state, and I was wondering what that cocoon was, while repeating "gratitude" and "thank you." Suddenly, that cocoon became translucent and disappeared.

Only a little of the cocoon's thread remained, like the traces of a nest, but when it reached that state, a feeling of tension in my body suddenly subsided even further, the restlessness of my consciousness decreased, and I felt that I had reached a deeper state of stillness.

I probably interpret these kinds of images not as the true appearance of Tokyo, but as something that is appearing as an image due to some cognitive aspect within myself. I'm not sure if I've solved something real about Tokyo, but if I really have solved something, that would be desirable, and it would be okay if that were the case. However, at least for now, I don't have any certainty, so I think it might be that I have reached some kind of resolution within my own perception.