Meditation is alerted awareness - consciousness.
Sometimes this awareness transcends the body
and from this state you can say: I am not this body
You may even forget that you somehow live in
a body. When consciousness is absorbed in consciousness "you" might not be aware of
anything in time and space and yet "your" body
will perform its role on the stage called ordinary
life.
This was in an extreme way the case for Captain
Lal Chand. During the II. World War he was
serving in the English army as a soldier.
Often he was fighting with great courage against
the Germans. He even got a medal for his bravery.
 
But now he tells me that he actually doesn't remember any of these events! Other people told him about this period of his life. He can only
remember a state of ultimate bliss in deep states
of meditation. While his body was fighting on the
battlefield his Soul soared high above time and
space. Later it seemed his Surat, the ultimate soul
by itself ascended in the body and again made it
possible for him to be aware of events in time in space.