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Our first qualitative study on the Flotatation experience as Preprint: "Silence, darkness, and gravity: A qualitative analysis of individual experiences during Floatation-REST". By Kristin Schiffer, Eric Pfeifer, Christine Stolterfoth, and Marc Wittmann osf.io/preprints/ps...

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My @timingresforum.bsky.social talk from February 2025 on the Embodiment of Time now available on Youtube: youtu.be/1F1X7bG-ouc?...

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Our paper in Consciousness and Cognition on the afterglow effect following floatation in the @igpp.bsky.social floating cabin: "Experience after Floatation-REST: Relaxation during floating mediates the afterglow effect" by Iraklis Pantazis and Marc Wittmann www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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@kursbuch.bsky.social 221, März 2025, über Verteidigung. U. a. mit einem Interview, das @sianderl.bsky.social mit mir zum Thema »Verteidigung der Lebenszeit« geführt hat. kursbuch.online/shop/kursbuc...

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Subjective time is embodied time. My talk on February 26 (10 am EST, 3 pm GMT, 4 pm CET). Abstract and link for registration below.

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Today, in one week (February 26; 10 am EST, 3 pm GMT, 4 pm CET) my talk on the embodied sense of time. Please register and join if you have the time ... mailchi.mp/0a8d89931899...

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3rd birthday of the @igpp.bsky.social Freiburg Floatation-REST cabin at Prana built by floataway.com, supported by Float Research Collective. Our research on ASC resulted in four studies: 1 article, 1 preprint, 2 manuscripts; 2 study grants by Hanns-Seidl-Stifung and Bial foundation. More to come.

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Subjective time is embodied time. My talk on February 26 (10 am EST, 3 pm GMT, 4 pm CET). Abstract and link for registration below.

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Hans Bender in Conversation with Carl Jung. Participation Mystique and Its Implications for Our Understanding of Time and Death. new paper by @marcwittmann.bsky.social and Angeliki Yiassemides brill.com/view/journal...

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Ein Gefühl für den Verlauf der eigenen Lebenszeit: Morgen vor 12 Jahren erschien mein SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen-Gespräch mit der ungewöhnlich gut vorbereiteten Journalistin Katja Gentinetta. www.srf.ch/play/tv/ster...

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Am Sonntag, 26.1., 18.00 Uhr der @kursbuch.bsky.social - Salon im MalerSaal des Deutschen Schauspielhauses Hamburg, ein Gespräch über die subjektive Zeit mit @sianderl.bsky.social

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This BrainPost blog covers the main results of our recent publication in the Journal of Neuroscience showing how the heart beat through the heartbeat-evoked potential in the brain and the subjective awareness of bodily signals predict accuracy in time perception: www.brainpost.co/weekly-brain...

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Today, 25 years ago, the last painting of the millennium was created by my friend Dirk Thiel. Read my Psychology Today blog on art and existence and on where and how the last painting was created. www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se...

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It is about time! Miriam Frankel's article about observations and research on how time passes in our lives, with deliberations by me, Ruth Ogden, and Steve Taylor. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

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An essential talk by @jeroenderidder.bsky.social in the @igpp.bsky.social seminars on how to trust science: the good and the evil. Highly recommended!

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The Journal of Anomalistics 24-2, published by the Society for Anomalistics and the IGPP, is online. The articles of the peer-reviewed bilingual scientific open-access journal are available at: www.igpp.de/allg/ZfA/zfa... #Anomalistik #Anomalistics

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Everything you always wanted to know about Altered States if Consciousness, from historic classification schemes to contemporary approaches.

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My latest Psychology Today blog on models of consciousness and why physicalism is dead: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se...

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Call for papers: A Special Issue for honoring the memory of Philip Zimbardo's life and work (1933-2024) in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences, edited by Maciej Stolarski, Marc Wittmann, Jeff Joireman, and Oksana Senyk: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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The second Floatation-REST study from my igpp.bsky.social lab as PsyArXiv preprint, with Iraklis Pantazis. Participants report a stronger feeling of afterglow as measured with an afterglow inventory, more state mindfulness, and more interoceptive awareness: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I am part of an intriguing symposium on the "Sense of self: one body, multiple mechanisms" organized by Anne Giersch and Iris Trinkler at University of Strasbourg. Registration soon possible: bodyself.sciencesconf.org

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Warum vergeht die Zeit im Alter gefühlt schneller? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich der Psychologe @marcwittmann.bsky.social in einem Interview mit dem RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) shorturl.at/LVKTw

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My Online First chapter with Sylvie Droit-Volet in an upcoming Springer Nature book edited with Irina Strigo and Alan Simmons on "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig": link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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My talk on "Subjective Time and Self in Ordinary and Altered States of Consciousness" presented at "Disordered Temporalities – Toward Quantitative Phenomenology" Conference, July 5th, 2024, at the University of Heidelberg, now available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBq...

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Our preprint by Larry D. Fort, @costines.bsky.social, Athena Demertzi, and Timo Torsten Schmidt summing up historical and contemporary models of ASCs with a clustering of terms to visualize the common core features across the classification schemes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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The final version of our article now available to those interested in how the heart informs the brain on the duration of external events (send an email): When the Heart Meets the Mind: Exploring the Brain–Heart Interaction during Time Perception www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...

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Following my previous Psychology Today blog with deliberations on why we as humans have free will: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se... here is our PsyArXiv paper with stringent arguments formulated together with my philosopher colleagues Carlos Montemayor and Mauro Dorato: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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My latest Psychology Today blog on the dynamics of the conscious brain: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se...

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Our paper from the EU project VIRTUALTIMES with researchers Shiva Khoshnoud and @federicoalvarez.bsky.social: The experience of bodily feelings and the EEG brain signal, which registers the heartbeats, the heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP), predict subjective time: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Helena Hruby, doctoral student in my lab, is presenting our first #Floatation-REST study results www.nature.com/articles/s41... on how the body boundaries dissolve and time is distorted, by invitation from the Float Conference in San Antonio, August 9 to 11: www.floatconference.com/speakers

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An unusal in-depth article by Conor Feehly on our @igpp.bsky.social Freiburg #Floatation-REST study exploring the induction of altered states of self and time consciousness, the text also providing the background regarding our prior investigations: www.discovermagazine.com/mind/sensory...

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Heute, kommt zum Vortrag in personam am @igpp.bsky.social oder über zoom. Felix Hasler!

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My new Psychology Today blog on our just published @igpp.bsky.social study in Scientific Reports: How altered states of consciousness as induced during #Floatation-REST have a relaxing and anxiolytic effect in healthy individuals. www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se...

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Just over two years after the first of the 50 study participants entered the @igpp.bsky.social Floatation-REST cabin we publish the first quantitative study on how the senses of time and self are downregulated as indicators of altered states of consciousness: link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

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Day 2 of the Essentia Foundation conference on Time and Mind: Going Beyond Einstein. With physicists and cognitive neuroscientists presenting their ideas and starting with my own talk on self and time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKC...

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Preprint with Steve Taylor et al. on validating our new instrument for measuring “wakefulness”: 'Increased Wakefulness as Measured by the WAKE-16 is Related to Mindfulness and Emotional Self-Regulation in Experienced Buddhist Meditators'. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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How does the brain keep time? A comprehensive article by Saga Briggs on work by myself and Irena Arslanova based on Bud (A.D.) Craig's theory of linking subjective time with the body and the insular cortex: bigthink.com/neuropsych/h...

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My latest Psychology Today blog on How to Subjectively Expand Our Lifetime: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sens...

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The Epilogue of the just released paperback version of my @mitpress.bsky.social book "Altered States of Consciousness" now available in THE MIT PRESS READER: Scientists are finally taking altered states of consciousness seriously: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/scientists-a...

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In synchrony with the now available paperback version I found again a review of my book on the Inside Higher Ed webpage. How lucky I am that in my profession I can follow in William James' footsteps: www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/0...

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Coming closer to revealing the mechanisms underlying the embodiment of time. The preprint of our EU VIRTUALTIMES project on how the heartbeat evoked response (HEP) predicts the judgment of duration: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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See the preprint of our very first IGPP Floatation-REST study where 50 participants report a dissolution of body boundaries and a distortion of subjective time, as compared to a bed-REST control condition: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3...

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The paperback version of my @mitpress.bsky.social book Altered States of Consciousness is out: When the self and time are up- and downregulated during differently altered states ... drugs, meditation, near-death experiences, psychopathological states, and more ... mitpress.mit.edu/978026254608...

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Find my online talk from 30.6.2023 on the embodiment of time and the time sense in altered states of consciousness at the Co-Embodied Self Lab (CELab) led by @annaciaunica.bsky.social at the Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon: youtu.be/3H_qFNU1n6U?... via @YouTube

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The mystery of time consciousness is solved! Read about the work by Alice Teghil from La Sapienzia in Rome and mine at IGPP Freiburg on interoception and the insula theory of time, first suggested by Bud (A.D.) Craig: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se...

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