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 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.
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.
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 found myself standing in the middle of nowhere... it was almost as if someone had picked up the grains of my being and threw them into a strong wind that just scattered me across this infinite timeless expanse of the universe.
Among accounts that include time distortion, these were the most common pathways that preceded it:
Experience types most commonly reported in the same accounts:
Among the 108 accounts that include time distortion, these integration challenges appeared most often — shown as a percentage of those accounts:
Physical phenomena reported by people whose accounts include time distortion:
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience — drawn from the interviews in this collection:
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