“Gooning is a sort of modernized version of tantric sex/masturbation without the spiritual aspects that have been traditionally associated with it in the past. ... It’s an almost hypnotic, semi-meditative mental state a person can enter after prolonged masturbation.”
The ones who travel furthest for self-pleasure say that, if they edge long enough, they fall into a mind-numbing trance where nothing matters but nutting. Only then can an edger truly claim to be “gooning.”
-- M. Stahl, "THE PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE OF ‘GOONING’ — OR MASTURBATING INTO A TRANCE, Mel Magazine (accessed December 20, 2022)
Just when you think you know how to masturbate, someone finds the goon trance. Now you can spend your whole day almost getting off.