Wondering how many people had had trips in which there whole concept of time becomes meaningless. Or minutes literally feel like hours days etc. Or believing time has literally stopped.

I recently read a trip report where someone said they would look at the clock and it would be say 5:59. They would then think four or five hours had passed and when they checked the time it was still 5:59. They said they checked the time at least six times and each time if was still 5:59 and yet it felt like it had been hours since last they looked. This resulted in them thinking time literally stopped that tvljey had died.

I hear people speak of time dilation and I've had time go by very fast when tripping but never anything this extreme. Where I was literally perceiving seconds as hours and feeling time had been broken.

If you have experienced this is like to know on what substance and what exactly happened ?
Do you think this is more common with certain su stances

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Also in regards to smoked dmt specifically. While I've heard of people saying the experience felt like and eternity or they lived through the whole existencof the universe since creation I find there rare and hard to come by midday its over fast.

Seems shrooms I've found the most reports of this with. Do you think this happened generally when people resist the trip and want it to end so it seems long yet its slightly exxagerrated or does this happen on blissful trjps as well and does and can time literally become as distorted ad in the example I have earlier

I've had several trips in which the illusion of time was exposed for what it is.

This concept that there are an infinite (or large) sequence of moments, like stills in a motion picture, is the illusion of time. While most people assume this without question, I believe that it's not only untrue, it's the furthest from the truth you can get. There is not an infinite number of moments—there is only one!—the eternal now. Psychedelics can shatter that illusion and place you in the now, in the "thickness of the moment."

Nothing is lost. All is well, here.. and alive. Eternal now. Drop it. Drop everything. Allow existence to exist as is. That which that is never lost is discovered. If you think you've lost something, you only give space for the mind to chatter. De-condition from what you thought once was. Our minds cling to the concept of time. The heart does not. For a moment of opportunity, just be.

I never had time stop that way from smoked DMT.... I have had time distort itself quite dramatically with LSD, psilocybin, amanita, San Pedro, Ayahuasca, Salvia and mushrooms though. Also had time distort itself when sober.

First time distortion I ever experienced was when I was drowning in the ocean - my whole life flashed before my eyes and then I saw many glimpses of possible futures (with and without me in them). Lasted about a moment I think, but felt like my entire life.

Second time distortion was a couple months later when I tried LSD for the first time - time stopped and suddenly I was back in the ocean.... God spoke to me and I experienced so much, but when I came back to my body it had only been a single moment....

Salvia creates the most dramatic time distortions in my experience.

Relevant - there have been a few studies examining this effect in controlled lab settings. I'm just pulling citations from my Zotero, don't feel like digging up links, but the full texts should be available online:

Wackermann, Jirí, Marc Wittmann, Felix Hasler, and Franz X. Vollenweider. “Effects of Varied Doses of Psilocybin on Time Interval Reproduction in Human Subjects.” Neuroscience Letters 435, no. 1 (April 11, 2008 ): 51–55. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2008.02.006.

Wittmann, Marc, Olivia Carter, Felix Hasler, B. Rael Cahn, Ulrike Grimberg, Philipp Spring, Daniel Hell, Hans Flohr, and Franz X. Vollenweider. “Effects of Psilocybin on Time Perception and Temporal Control of Behaviour in Humans.” Journal of Psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 21, no. 1 (January 2007): 50–64. doi:10.1177/0269881106065859.

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I would say I've had pretty extreme time dilation on mushrooms, and likely LSD.

But where time as a concept just drops, or you're outside of it, I've experienced most profoundly with DMT and some experiences with high doses of ketamine, that I would qualify as somewhat different.

As others have alluded to, it seems time is a function of us, and illusory. I remember saying upon a sort of 'breakthrough' ketamine dose: "Did I break it?"
Also, other experiences with DMT, feeling dissolved/dying/rebirthed have been experiences of losing the concept of time, or leaving and returning to it.

A lot to be said about this stuff haha. Hope my input is helpful.

I totally have- My first, and only, DMT experience, as well as many Salvia and Psilocybin experiences.

Almost every experience of infinity I've had has been less than 10 minutes in real life.

It's funny, actually, I met this very eccentric old man the other day. He stopped me and asked if I believed in magic, to which I replied "I believe everything is real," then he proceeded to tell me a story. It was a story of these elves he met in Vietnam. The guys sanity was questionable, but there seemed to be a sort of wisdom about what he said.

The guy told me a number, which was something that ended in 6060 (for 60 minutes, 60 seconds) and it was basically our preconceived time-frame. He went on about how we're all trapped in this time-frame.

Anyways, just some weird story that just happened that has some relevance to this discussion. Perhaps what happens is our brains do a very precise job of keeping time, and when we lose track of time, everything appears to be somewhat.. Infinite? I mean obviously that theory is totally miniscule to the grand scheme on the transcendence of Space-Time.