Insight is commonly studied in laboratory paradigms as a sudden shift in understanding accompanied by characteristic “Aha!” experiences. However, such paradigms may not capture the full phenomenological range of insight as it occurs in naturalistic contexts. This study compared the phenomenology of insight across four contexts—psychedelic experiences, everyday-life insights, Compound Remote...
We argue that the powerful transformative effects of mystical-type experiences can be understood using the same machinery that underlies insight problem solving, and that both mystical experiences and insight are species of a genus of “realization experiences”: experiences wherein some phenomenon or piece of information becomes suddenly experienced as real or true. Specifically, we argue that...