Effect category
Cognitive Effects
Cognitive effects are subjective effects that directly alter or introduce new content to an element of a person's cognition.
81 effects across 5 groups
Amplifications
21Cognitive amplifications are defined as any subjective effect that increases, enhances, accelerates, or intensifies a facet of a person's cognition.
- Analysis enhancement
- Anxiety
- Creativity enhancement
- Dream potentiation
- Ego inflation
- Emotion intensification
- Empathy, affection, and sociability enhancement
- Focus enhancement
- Immersion enhancement
- Increased music appreciation
- Increased sense of humor
- Increased suggestibility
- Irritability
- Memory enhancement
- Motivation enhancement
- Novelty enhancement
- Personal meaning enhancement
- Thought acceleration
- Thought connectivity
- Thought organization
- Wakefulness
Suppressions
20Cognitive suppressions are defined as any subjective effect that decreases the intensity of a facet of a person's cognition.
- Addiction suppression
- Amnesia
- Analysis suppression
- Anxiety suppression
- Cognitive fatigue
- Confusion
- Creativity suppression
- Delirium
- Disinhibition
- Dream suppression
- Emotion suppression
- Focus suppression
- Language suppression
- Memory suppression
- Motivation suppression
- Personal bias suppression
- Sleepiness
- Suggestibility suppression
- Thought deceleration
- Thought disorganization
Novel States
12Novel cognitive states are defined as any cognitive effect that does not merely amplify or suppress familiar states of mind; rather, it induces an experience that is qualitatively different from that of ordinary consciousness.
Psychological States
20Psychological states are defined as any cognitive effect that is either established within the psychological literature or arises as a result of the complex interplay between more simplistic components such as cognitive enhancements and suppressions.
Transpersonal States
8Transpersonal states are defined as any subjective effect that feels as if it alters a person's cognition in a manner that relates to their place in the universe, the inner workings of reality or consciousness, and/or the context of their existence. The highest manifestations of these effects fall under what are commonly known as 'peak', 'transcendent' or 'transformative' experiences.