time distortion

a type of perceptual transformation, sometimes experienced in altered states of consciousness, in which time appears to pass either with great rapidity or with extreme slowness. Perception of past and future may also be transformed.

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May 8th 2024

bizarreness effect

see distinctiveness effect.