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mmm

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Describe a theory of why time distortion occurs during meditation.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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How can a person recognize that he or she is in a meditative state? List Allen's six indicators of an altered state that may be associated with meditation.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
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One theory of why time distortion occurs is that the right hemisphere (for right-handers though for left-handers it may be the left hemisphere) is more dominant during meditation. The left hemisphere is the time keeper and the right hemisphere is believed to engage in non-time linked thinking. Therefore, during meditation as the right hemisphere dominates, we lose our perception of time. Usually, this means that a 20 minute meditation seems much shorter, more like 5 to 10 minutes or sometimes even less.

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Allen (1983) discussed six indicators of an altered state that may be associated with meditation. These are time distortion, ineffability, present-centeredness, perception distortion, enhanced receptivity, and self-transcendence.


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