altered states
Psychedelic mental experiences
Altered states are conditions of consciousness that differ from ordinary waking awareness.
The phrase usually refers to states induced by meditation, drugs, sensory deprivation, or intense experience: The ritual was designed to produce altered states.
The term gained currency in the 1960s and 1970s through psychedelic culture and consciousness research.
- psychedelicsDrugs distorting perception
- ayahuascaPsychoactive Amazonian plant brew
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
- meditationFocused attention practice
neurofeedback · dissociation · out of body · astral projection · near death experience · shamanism · synesthesia · third eye · vision quests · peak experience · hypnosis · mysticism · breathwork · deep trance · sensory deprivation · mind expansion · religious ecstasy · sacred ceremonies
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
- Altered Realitydreams, illusions, visions, mirages, hallucinations
- altered statestrance, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion, derealization
- consciousnessconsciousness, self-awareness, awareness, wakefulness, alertness
- Hallucinationsvisual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucination, auditory hallucination, seeing things
- PsychedeliaLSD, acid, psychedelic posters, tie-dye, hallucination
altered statessobriety
Unimpaired mental state
waking state · lucidity · clear-headedness · mental clarity · default mode