Concept
Altered state of consciousness
Overview
An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called an altered state of mind, altered mental status (AMS), or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state. It describes induced changes in one's mental state, almost always temporary. A synonymous phrase is "altered state of awareness".
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This is the extreme of what is called dispersed attention. Between this extreme and the extreme of concentrated attention, in which absorption in the interest of the moment is so complete that grave bodily injuries may be unfelt, there are intermediate degrees, and these have…
William James, Psychology
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The state of consciousness so generated is, in fact, comparable in quality to the initial state of consciousness caused by a blow (distinguishing it from the pain or other feeling that commences the instant after); which state of consciousness caused by a blow may be taken as the primitive and typical form of the nervous shock. The fact that sudden brief disturbances thus set up by different stimuli through…
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
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But inasmuch as I forbore using somnambulism, I perhaps robbed myself of a preliminary stipulation without which the cathartic method seems inapplicable. For it is based on the fact that in the altered state of consciousness the patients have at their disposal such recollections and recognize such connections which do not apparently exist in their normal conscious state. Wherever the somnambulic broadening of…
Sigmund Freud, Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneuroses
Names Altered state of consciousness.
Related ideas
- Epilepsy
- Ken Wilber
- Meditation
- Psychosis
- Shamanism
- Schizophrenia
- Mysticism
- Abraham Maslow
- Yoga
- Self-awareness
- Behavior
- Dopamine
- Theory of mind
- Hallucination
- Awareness
- Behaviorism
- Consciousness
- Episodic memory
- Cerebral cortex
- Phenomenology (psychology)
- William James
- Anxiety
- Fasting
- Neural oscillation
Place in the tradition
Part of Mysticism.
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