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Sam Woolfe November 17, 2025

Elastic Minutes and Eternal Moments: How Psychedelics Alter the Perception of Time

Time distortion is one of the classic effects of psychedelics (although I rarely see this mentioned as an expected effect of psychedelics on educational, retreat, and therapy sites). I think that time distortion needs to be discussed more from a harm reduction point of view: many challenging experiences are related to alterations to one’s perception…

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Experiential Richness and the Perception of Time

The richness of our experiences in life can often drastically alter our perception of time. While we may not always think of time in a subjective manner (after all, a minute is a minute, an hour is an hour), the pace at which reality unfolds does, in fact, change throughout the day, depending on myriad…

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Elastic Minutes and Eternal Moments: How Psychedelics Alter the Perception of Time

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