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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March 13th 2025

visceral sense

the sense associated with functions of the viscera.