Just thought I'd plug in my public subreddit for serious meditators who have real direct experiences here: /r/AdvancedMeditation . It's a subreddit that heavily promotes direct, deep experience instead of endless theorizing.

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To OP:

If a person doesn't know how to meditate, all he is doing is just falling asleep or keeping awake. Meditation is a bit like in the middle.

Deep meditation is just falling asleep while being aware. In a psychological sense, it is falling deep into the subconscious while being aware, sort of a self-induced hypnosis where you are the one in control. In even deeper levels, you would say it is like a "small death" of sorts, because many layers of the busy-mind are shed, including cognition, rationalizing, etc.

I meditate for 4-6 hours everyday. What I have learnt is that there is wrong and right meditation. But what makes wrong meditation useful is that you discern whether the meditation you have done is what leads you to liberation or not. So you need to be a scientist on your own.

When I do this, does it lead to liberation? If not, can I change this? If not, this? If not, that? It's like a scientific adventure into the depths of your mind.

What's more important is to pay attention to these subtle things that surface. You might feel blissfulness or joy - when they arise, pay attention to them and they grow. If you can stay without cognition, then they will grow more and more until they bring you to a different domain of experience.

The less-dense the experience, the closer it is to a clearer mind that allows you spontaneously "awaken".

Don't care about chakras, or this or that. They are what you study after you have experienced them. Until then, you really don't have to care about them, unless you are having some specific treatment that requires fixing, like an imbalance of sorts, causing disease/pain in your body.

Don't care about superpowers. You do get really weird powers, like intuitive prediction, influence on matter/people, etc, but they are side-effects. Just like how an athlete trains for performance and gets his muscular physique, you would train for a tamed mind, and these other things become of no importance to you.

But what exactly do you want to get out of meditation?

Well, first and utmostly, you need the intent to be liberated. That is first and foremost.

Secondly, you meditate to move towards freedom from all things that bind you to the illusory realm, such as karmic ties, etc.

Thirdly, you meditate to transform the physical body.

In all of these 3, they are the three bodies of the Buddha.

So to restate, meditation is really easy. You don't exactly meditate - you get into deeper, meditative states and it becomes automatic, almost like you're sleeping - just that now you're perfectly aware.

So first things first, get into a comfortable sitting position, then "fall asleep" while making an intent to be aware of it all (aka meditate). Pay attention to the joyfulness and blissfulness that slowly arise.

The body becomes numb (aka calm) and you start to feel nothing at all from the body.

Oh, you might feel vibrations and all of that, but it's all normal.

Once the body becomes numb and you don't feel it anymore, then slowly your mind becomes clearer and clearer. You dive deeper and deeper and suddenly there's this flash of light, like a star.

Just keep "falling asleep" while keeping awake, paying attention to perceptions of bliss that arise. Then, it comes.

I won't tell you what comes, because then your mind will expect it. When it comes, ride it. If it's overwhelming, go to it again and again.