Cannabis use alters time perception in a dose-dependent manner, leading to time overestimation in preclinical studies and impaired time estimation and reproduction abilities in humans, along with subjective temporal fragmentation and depersonalization. These effects may stem from indirect dopaminergic action and structural, functional, and metabolic changes in the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit. Despite growing interest in time perception's role in psychiatry, few studies have examined the link between cannabis-induced timing alterations and psychiatric symptoms such as those in psychotic and mood disorders.
Hypnotic inductions can trigger real out-of-body experiences (OBEs), allowing researchers to interview participants during the event. Six participants described an intermediate entity called a "subtle body"—a white, silvered cloud around the physical body with enlarged hands and feet that moves quickly like flying, though with a vague sense of attrition when passing through walls. This subtle body connects to the physical body by a brilliant white link, sometimes described as a silvered string, while no visible links connect it to the "psychic body" (the self or I-identity). Both bodies can move forward and backward in time without a sense of time. These descriptions align with Vedanta philosophy and Theosophical tradition.