The normal sense of time suspended, collapsed, or dissolved entirely
The normal sense of time suspended, elongated, collapsed, or dissolved, including experiences of timelessness, eternity, or the simultaneous presence of past and future.
The wide gap between the two numbers tells an interesting story: time distortion is frequently mentioned but rarely described with much depth. People noted it without fully putting it into words.
There was no time, no space, no name, there was not even the idea of Consciousness because it was prior to even language, prior to even conceptualization — and that was the most important thing to me because that to me was pure Consciousness without any kind of phenomena.
There was no space. There was no time. There was no location. It was just infinity. And I felt instant nihilism in that moment. I felt like I was everything. I felt like I was nothing.
It wasn't even right to say I was one with all of creation — I was one with the Sea and the sky and the sand and the people and the birds and the sounds and it was all happening timelessly. Presence was happening and I was simply the conscious celebration of it all.
I was in a whole other reality — a wonder of boundless space, timeless, no form — but there was an incredible powerful and vital presence that surrounded me and filled my whole being and was so beautiful and full of light.
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience, drawn from the interviews in this collection:
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