Altered states of consciousness : experiences out of time and self / Marc Wittmann ; translated by Philippa Hurd.

Wenn die Zeit stehen bleibt. English

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

xiv, 176 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-171) and index.

Prologue : an "I" awakes -- On time consciousness. Time expansion and moments of terror -- Time and space : the intoxication of drugs -- At one with the world -- Timeless in near-death -- The moment. Absolutely in the moment -- The duration of a moment -- Mindfulness and time -- Beyond the moment to timelessness -- Daydreams and mind wandering -- Loss of time and self. A puzzling patient -- Body, emotions, time -- Me, myself, and I : boredom, depression, meditation -- Epilepsy and timelessness -- Schizophrenia, or When time stands still -- Timeless through the doors of perception -- Epilogue : on scientific awakening.