Research Program / Claims / states-of-consciousness-11

Psychological time is a natural method to connect with the inner world; one can obtain rest that does not depend on clock time, and can extend the experience.

心理时间是连接内在世界的自然方法，可在其中获得不依赖钟表时间的休息，并可延长体验。

Concept states of consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
  • dreams-projections §2
Adjudicating experiment
Corresponding to extended question 3: ~80 people including 40 who frequently experience internal vibrations, each with 3 sessions of 64 or 128-channel EEG, random experience probes combined with spontaneous event markers, synchronized EMG, accelerometer, ECG, respiration, and ambient sound; analyze pre-report microstates and event-related potentials, with matched button-press controls. In separate blocks, give light touch or median nerve stimulation to measure somatosensory evoked potentials, avoiding calling spontaneous potentials without external stimulation evoked potentials. For corresponding question 5: ~120 people perform crossover of lying still practice, ordinary relaxation, and flow vs. non-flow dance matched for movement intensity; measure time reproduction, retrospective estimates, alertness during movement and after recovery; ~60 others perform low-movement fMRI flow tasks to test cross-task default mode network metrics and common associations with time distortion. Each study about 9–12 months.
Suggested paper title
Subjective Time, Restorative Outcomes, and EEG Dynamics During Absorption and Flow
What it would overturn
Subjective time distortion does not overturn existing theory; only if short practice produces objective recovery equivalent to longer rest would it modify models where recovery extent is mainly constrained by actual rest duration.
Candidate labs / funders
Martin Ulrich; Johannes Keller; Georg Grön; Thomas Koenig; Antoine Lutz
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Distinguishes clock time from experienced time, but does not define rest, magnitude of extension, or neural mechanisms; heavily overlaps with absorption, flow, and attentional time models.
Note
No studies were found directly linking Rob's internal vibrations to somatosensory evoked potentials or EEG microstates; shared prefrontal or default network changes alone do not prove common mechanisms, and subjective rest is not equivalent to reduced sleep need.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim states-of-consciousness-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/states-of-consciousness-11