altered consciousness
Mind state change
Altered consciousness is any mental state that differs significantly from ordinary waking awareness.
The term covers a wide range: drug-induced states, meditation, hypnosis, dreaming, religious experiences, and dissociation.
The shaman entered an altered state of consciousness through rhythmic drumming.
The phrase often appears in discussions of psychedelics, spiritual practices, or neurological conditions.
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- hypnotic tranceInduced suggestible consciousness
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
lucid dreaming · dream state · meditation · fugue state · enlightenment · sensory deprivation · sleep · depersonalization · ego death · altered state · suggestion · waking dream · dissociation · near-death experience · samadhi · flow state · astral projection · intoxication
- religious ecstasyecstasy, rapture, religious ecstasy, ecstatic states, trance
- oxygen deprivationhypoxia, hypoxemia, cyanosis, blue lips, blue skin
- astral projectionastral projection, astral travel, astral plane, astral body, out-of-body experience
- cardiac symptomschest pain, chest tightness, chest pressure, palpitations, heart palpitations
- overdoseoverdose, drug overdose, fatal overdose, heroin overdose, fentanyl overdose
- surgical riskscardiac arrest, respiratory failure, hemorrhage, anaphylaxis, aspiration
altered consciousnesslucidity
Clearness of mind
mental clarity · clear-headedness · presence of mind · groundedness · sobriety