altered perception
Shifted sensory experience
Altered perception is a change in how someone experiences reality through their senses or mind.
The phrase typically describes effects of drugs, meditation, sensory deprivation, or mental states where ordinary awareness shifts: The medication caused altered perception of time.
In legal and medical contexts, it often signals impairment: He was driving under altered perception from the hallucinogens.
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- altered stateModified consciousness experience
- synesthesiaInvoluntary sensory crossover
- derealizationPerception that surroundings aren't real
dissociation · LSD · bad trip · euphoria · delusion · mescaline · mind expansion · time dilation · visual distortion · hypnosis · psychoactive · sensory overload · depersonalization · ego dissolution · out of body · meditation practices · sensory deprivation · dream state
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, consciousness expansion, derealization
- Dissociationdissociation, depersonalization, derealization, multiple personality disorder, alters