Research Program / Claims / physical-time-8

During psychological-time experiments, Jane reached a prolonged dissociated state, felt half-dissolved, heard a male voice whispering outside the window, and smelled a gray smoke odor.

珍在心理时间实验中达到长时间解离状态，感觉半溶解，并听到窗外男声低语和闻到灰色烟雾气味。

Concept physical time · Domain Nonlinear Time and Self-Cognition · experiment record · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ 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)
Adjudicating experiment
The historical case cannot be directly repeated after the fact. Prospectively recruit about 120 participants in a randomized crossover design undergoing psychological-time practice and ordinary closed-eye rest, each 4 times of 30 minutes over 4–6 weeks; simultaneous EEG, eye movement, environmental audio, and air-quality recording, with randomized sound and odor probe trials. Dissociation, body boundaries, and sensory experiences are recorded in real time, coded by blinded raters, and wakefulness versus sleep-onset transitions are distinguished.
Suggested paper title
Dissociation and Multisensory Experiences During Guided Attentional Practice: A Controlled EEG Study
What it would overturn
Merely replicating dissociation and sensory-like experiences does not require overturning mainstream hypotheses; only by demonstrating accurate identification of external stimuli without sensory input would the hypothesis that 'external perceptual identification depends on available sensory information' be modified.
Candidate labs / funders
Willoughby B. Britton，Brown University; Jared R. Lindahl，Brown University; Matthew D. Sacchet，Massachusetts General Hospital
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The account is specific, but no prior probability, duration criterion, or source criterion is provided; vividness does not constitute mechanistic specificity.
Note
'Untested' applies to this historical record; similar phenomena have been studied, but the text alone cannot determine whether it was hallucination, genuine external stimulation, or any particular clinical state.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim physical-time-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/physical-time-8