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.
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.
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.
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.
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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