Ebook: On the Experience of Time

How do we experience time? What do we use to experience it?

In a series of remarkable experiments, Dr Ornstein shows that it is difficult to maintain an ‘inner clock’ explanation of the experience of time and postulates a cognitive, information processing approach. This approach alone makes sense out of the very different data of the experience of time, and in particular of the experience of duration — the lengthening of duration under LS D, for example, or the effects of an experience felt to be a success rather than a failure, time in sensory deprivation, the time-order effect, or the influence of the administration of a sedative or stimulant drug.

As Professor Pribram writes in his Editorial Foreword, ‘Ornstein’s approach to the analysis of the time experience makes eminent sense. Besides this, Ornstein’s experiments are ingenious and his approach is fun to read about and to contemplate. Fun should be shared — so here is Ornstein on the experience of time.’