{"id":205759,"date":"2025-02-06T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/time-expansion-experiences-why-time-slows-down-in-altered-states-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:13:29","slug":"time-expansion-experiences-why-time-slows-down-in-altered-states-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/time-expansion-experiences-why-time-slows-down-in-altered-states-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Time expansion experiences: why time slows down in altered states of consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-expansion-experiences-why-time-slows-down-in-altered-states-of-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much longer than week at home.<\/p>\n<p>Time also seems to pass slowly when we are bored, or in pain. It seems to speed up when we\u2019re in a state of absorption, such as when we play music or chess, or paint or dance. More generally, most people report time seems to speed up as they get older.<\/p>\n<p>However, these variations in time perception are quite mild. Our experience of time can change in a much more radical way. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenmtaylor.com\/books\/time-expansion-experiences\/\">my new book<\/a>, I describe what I call \u201ctime expansion experiences\u201d \u2013 in which seconds can stretch out into minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much longer than week at home. Time also seems to pass slowly when we are bored, or in pain. It seems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}