david-ar/des-beep-corpus huggingface dataset:
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Standing at bus stop thinking about book chapter structure
Experience: Saw bright cyan blue from passing car (50%), heard/spoke inner words 'you have to decide' with emphasis on 'have' (50%).
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 2
Context: On bus looking at black cab
Experience: Unsymbolized thinking that parents aging, should visit more. Dimly inner-saw mother's profile looking right. Also noticed bright orange from cab's taxi light.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, inner_seeing, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 2
Context: On London Underground
Experience: Focused on small black mark on opposite seat (70%). Simultaneously inner-saw word 'LIGHT' in white capitals on wooden plank with spotlight effect (30%).
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 3
Context: In bookshop reading Where the Crawdads Sing
Experience: Words 'rotted duff' stuck out (80%) with surprise/confusion about semantic strangeness. Inner vision showed faint-colored swamp with flat grassy plain, water, bird (20%).
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Phone call with travel agent
Experience: When asked 'when would you like to go?' responded aloud 'Go?' Inner-saw the word 'Go' in black ink on dark brown wooden plank. Felt bodily confusion/anxiety in chest/stomach.
Categories: inner_seeing, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Sitting on sofa petting cat, looking at bookshelf
Experience: Saw bright redness of various book spines (red to red scanning), with meta-awareness of zeroing-in on redness.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Entered coffee shop, saw friend Naz smiling
Experience: Inner-spoke and heard whisper 'story' (only that word). Simultaneously mused about what constitutes a story generally, and saw Naz.
Categories: inner_speaking, unsymbolized_thinking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Walking near apartment, noticed small white gate with sign '37'
Experience: Focused primarily on number-ness of 37 (smaller part: noticed sign colors — gold and contrasting black/white).
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 7
Context: In bookshop, eavesdropping on nervous customer asking about book
Experience: Heard employee say 'the paperback is out' (30%). Felt 'worried — a physical, unpleasant, light-tickly sensation' between chest/stomach (70%).
Categories: sensory_awareness, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Joe (Neuroscientist and writer, researching book The Quiet Mind)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Walking home
Experience: Wondered 'whether selling cat food is a good business idea' — 'pushing, expansive cognitive-y experience.' Inner-saw very blurry indistinct mini city in transparent sphere-like area (like snow globe) from bird's eye perspective.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Joe Jebelli
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 1
Context: In Cheeseboard line
Experience: Deciding between buying a new roll or using bread heel at home. Innerly seeing the roll and then the bread. Also aware of cheese smell, woman's plaid pants, social distancing concerns.
Categories: inner_seeing, unsymbolized_thinking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Reading Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Experience: Encountering the word 'sop' in a long sentence. Experiencing a 'Huh' reaction — the word seemed incongruous with surrounding flow. Described as precognitive-like.
Categories: feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Meditating
Experience: Worrisome recollection of heart palpitation from previous night. Either imaginarily feeling or cognitively recalling palpitation sensations. Experiencing worry as emotional state.
Categories: feeling, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Received text from 94-year-old mother with confusion about visit dates
Experience: Feeling sadness and frustration about mother's cognitive state. Simultaneously typing reply correcting misinformation.
Categories: feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Preparing fish, heading to refrigerator after salting
Experience: Innerly exclaiming 'Pepper!' in own voice, realizing he'd forgotten to pepper the fish.
Categories: inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Reading dry linguistics text about body awareness
Experience: Re-experiencing uncomfortable scene from 15 years ago: moderating panel with unexpected participant. Innerly seeing a stage with people milling around and horseshoe of chairs, dark wood appearance. Feeling shiver of embarrassment.
Categories: inner_seeing, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Meditating, mind wandered to article about scientists
Experience: Thinking about email to colleague Tony regarding slow progress — how to professionally encourage urgency. 'Thought-y experience without words.' Simultaneously feeling annoyed/irritated with possible bodily warmth.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Morning meditation, mind wandered to afternoon walk
Experience: Thinking without words or imagery: 'we should go to Inspiration Point.'
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Walking with wife, she's discussing chair cushions
Experience: Speaking aloud about foam cushions. Simultaneously feeling imaginative bodily sense of sitting in too-low chair — a deflation sensation.
Categories: inner_speaking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Reheating coffee, heading toward pantry
Experience: Experiencing word 'snack' without voice or picture, possibly with disapproving tone.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Stepping outside, wife approaching from unexpected direction
Experience: Experiencing perplexment — 'just the experience like a question mark.'
Categories: feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Editing paper
Experience: Deciding whether to cut clause 'we're constantly translating our thoughts into words.' Binary analytical process without words.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Michael (Author and journalist)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Moving buttered toast from cutting board to plate
Experience: Feeling hotness in fingers from crust and cognitive surprise that toast remained so hot.
Categories: sensory_awareness, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Michael Pollan
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Vacuuming
Experience: Nothing particularly present in experience.
Categories: just_doing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Doing something mundane
Experience: Nothing in her experience.
Categories: just_doing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Preparing for movie
Experience: Unsymbolized thinking about movie timing — no words or images.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Social situation
Experience: 'Positive/happy/light vibe' — less than a specific feeling, more like an ambient experiential tone.
Categories: feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Packing while music plays
Experience: 'Bopping along' with happy vibe while packing. Experiential state present but not particularized.
Categories: feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Looking at photo of friends
Experience: 'Absorbing/soaking in' the photo. Not analyzing or thinking about it, but taking it in.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 6
Context: After exercise
Experience: Sore, throbbing sensation in glute region.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 7
Context: At computer
Experience: Unsymbolized wondering about email questions — thinking without content being specified.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Resting
Experience: 'Feels heavy' throughout body — whole-body heaviness sensation.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 8
Context: Reading while experiencing digestive discomfort
Experience: Bloated abdominal pressure. Reading content not in experience.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 8
Context: Watching movie Saltburn, buffering
Experience: Frustrated thinking about WiFi during buffering. One of her few instances of identifiable cognitive content.
Categories: feeling, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 9
Context: Bending over
Experience: Bodily pressure/weight in feet.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 9
Context: Trying to compose something
Experience: 'Active-featureless-pondering' what to write — the experience of effortful thinking with no content present.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Notes: Quintessential Mel: the process of thinking without any content
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 9
Context: Standing
Experience: Tingling sensation in feet — lightness/weightlessness quality.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 10
Context: Looking at website
Experience: Visual focus on misaligned website lines with 'confusion/disappointment' feeling.
Categories: sensory_awareness, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 11
Context: Hand injury
Experience: Hand/finger pain — tight and throbbing — while moaning.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 12
Context: Reading
Experience: Empathetic loneliness/depression while reading; relaxed body.
Categories: feeling, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 12
Context: Handling plastic wrapper
Experience: 'Caught by the crinkly crunchy sound' of plastic — sensory awareness of sound quality.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 12
Context: Lying down
Experience: Face pressure against pillow; tranquil relaxation.
Categories: sensory_awareness, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Mel (Young woman, strikingly minimal inner experience — never inner speech or imagery)
Sampling day: 13
Context: During routine activity
Experience: Unsymbolized thought 'What do I have at 3?'; simultaneous bladder sensation.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Mel
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Daydreaming about upcoming kayak trip
Experience: Vividly colorful, detailed inner seeing of Snake River scene with sister in dry suits. Also thinking about Instagram caption, innerly saying 'all the gear and absolutely no idea.'
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Hiking with housemate, telling story about hiking with father
Experience: Speaking aloud 'I wouldn't even eat them because I was too slow.' Inner seeing of father hiking ahead holding pink Starburst, detailed from her perspective.
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Jogging in woods, friend Drew telling story
Experience: Inner seeing of scene at bar with specific people positioned clearly or blurrily depending on how well she knew them.
Categories: inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Talking to sister about potential hike
Experience: Inner seeing detailed hiking scene: overgrown grass, lake, tents, rocky mountains. Inner speech in cheery tone 'We could wear bug nets!'
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Saying 'caramel' about mother's hair color
Experience: Inner seeing detailed caramel-colored hair close-up with texture of individual strands. Some blurred salon furnishings.
Categories: inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Recalling voice memo with branding advice
Experience: Inner hearing of own voice saying 'Coke is an established brand' in characteristic pitch and cadence.
Categories: inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Blow-drying hair while remembering birthday party
Experience: Inner seeing detailed scene: cream, blue, and orange rug; three friends on couch in specific clothing. Inner speech 'thirty is not so bad, it's twenty-nine that sucked!' in slightly animated storytelling voice.
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Listening to song and singing along
Experience: Singing along to lyric about 'golden retriever in a flower crown.' Inner seeing detailed dog's smiling face with leathery lips and twinkling eyes wearing plastic flower crown.
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 8
Context: Wheeling bike into garage while listening to podcast
Experience: Mostly (90%) experiencing hands pushing bike and coldness of handlebars. (10%) inner seeing of two podcasters in green room with maroon walls and mirrors with lightbulbs.
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 8
Context: Replaying phone conversation in head
Experience: Inner hearing own voice saying 'you were the last person I spoke to about it and I just had to tell someone' in normal voice. Only own side of conversation, nothing visual.
Categories: inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 9
Context: Doing dishes while listening to podcast
Experience: Listening to host say 'Vanessa Hudgens got good use out of that fridge.' Inner seeing old white childhood refrigerator with long silver handles, some rust — small seeing, roughly size of spatula she's holding.
Categories: inner_seeing, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Kerry (Young professional, graphic designer, rich inner visual world)
Sampling day: 9
Context: Reading ski resort website
Experience: Seeing and reading 'Jenny Creek / Arestua Hut Access' title. Inner seeing yurt on Eldora mountainside (mashup of Wyoming yurt and Colorado location) viewed from hilltop, behind-and-to-right of head.
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Kerry
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Playing chess online, contemplating queen capture
Experience: Saw possible queen paths as shimmering 3D squares on phone display that lost depth when reaching occupied squares; other squares appeared blurry.
Categories: inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Notes: Chess-specific inner seeing with depth and shimmer effects
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Zipping backpack
Experience: Innerly saw Magnus Carlsen (as color blotches with white outline), felt metallic coldness of zipper handle, saw backpack dimly, heard zipper sound.
Categories: inner_seeing, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Typing 'coffee roll' into Google
Experience: Read and innerly said 'coffee roll' (50%, whispery transparent human voice) while reading required effort. Thought of Google's 'did you mean' link (50%) as pressable button.
Categories: inner_speaking, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Reading phenomenology paper
Experience: Innerly said 'the body' (50%, internal voice). Innerly saw rectangular ferns area (top-left), black square mind/Cartesian theater (top-right), and shimmery-red head square (bottom-right) — representing body/phenomenon/mind as diagram.
Categories: inner_speaking, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Notes: Inner seeing as conceptual diagram of philosophical concepts
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 8
Context: Reading 'Hesperus is Hesperus'
Experience: Wondered (70%) if omniscient being would find it cognitively equivalent to 'Hesperus is Phosphorus.' Innerly saw small 3D black box with white Venus sphere, diagonally cut. Innerly said 'Hesperus is Hesperus' (20%, raspy whisper).
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 10
Context: Received text asking why doesn't get groceries 'like normal people'
Experience: Innerly said 'normal people' (50%, raspy/whispery reading voice). Innerly saw usual grocery store (50%) with interior visible (missing front wall), column with basket, woman picking grapes, cashier, people.
Categories: inner_speaking, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 11
Context: Watching YouTube video, Adam discussing steak fat
Experience: Heard 'is definitionally...' with full meaning 'Because a steak is definitionally...' in experience. Saw deep red steak with fat ring. Wondered whether Adam would explain Marco Pierre White wrong — clear, specific, wordless thinking.
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_seeing, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 12
Context: Had texted 'that's so cooooool'
Experience: Typed and innerly said 'that's so coooool' (raspy/whispery inner voice). Innerly saw Misa from Death Note — blonde, goth, sitting in bed with stuffed animals, color, not in motion.
Categories: inner_speaking, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 12
Context: Sitting eating breakfast
Experience: Innerly saw girlfriend (black hair, left profile, blue/green dress) walking toward brown brick school building — still picture of in-motion. Whispered aloud 'you're getting late' directed to innerly seen girlfriend.
Categories: inner_seeing, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gabriel (Philosophy-interested college senior)
Sampling day: 13
Context: Alarm sounding
Experience: Innerly said 'scales' (raspy inner voice). Innerly saw pixelated Minecraft-style scales. Heard musical alarm from phone. Felt bodily warmth especially in legs.
Categories: inner_speaking, inner_seeing, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gabriel H.
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Napping
Experience: Thinking 'something is impossible' without words — unsymbolized thinking during drowsy state.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Walking with dog
Experience: Saying made-up Italian word aloud while hearing and feeling the articulation.
Categories: inner_speaking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Notes: Frequent phenomenon: spontaneous faux-Italian speech
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Eyes closed, dozing
Experience: Clearly seeing friend Dean operating X-ray equipment — detailed inner vision during semi-sleep.
Categories: inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: no
Notes: Only clear visual image across entire study
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Squatting with dog
Experience: Feeling weight shift, seeing visual scene, talking to dog — multiple diffuse simultaneous experiences.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Doing crunches during exercise
Experience: Four simultaneous strands: hearing 'S' sound, feeling crunch exertion, hearing workout video, seeing room.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Performing tai chi form
Experience: Feeling body presence throughout in motion, seeing room. Whole-body proprioceptive experience.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Gualtiero (Philosopher of mind)
Sampling day: 8
Context: Reading on screen
Experience: Alternating between seeing word 'CONTROL' and '(OF BODY)' on screen, considering qualifier usage — reading as analytical process.
Categories: just_reading, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Gualtiero Piccinini
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Typing the word 'educators' on computer
Experience: Innerly said 'educators' with anxiety-provoking sense of wrongness and bodily feeling.
Categories: inner_speaking, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Typing 'All we imagine is light'
Experience: Innerly said 'imagine'; sense of urgency to write correctly; heard jazz guitar; cognized guitar line was intricate.
Categories: inner_speaking, sensory_awareness, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Listening to friend Danielle talking
Experience: 40% anxious, noticing Danielle used many words, trying to keep up, figuring response. 30% listening with comprehension. 30% innerly saw friend Eiko dancing in white dress.
Categories: feeling, sensory_awareness, inner_seeing
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Driving while friend describes gas leak
Experience: 60% innerly saw dead furries and pipe. 40% saw stoplight, registered need to stop. Heard friend with comprehension.
Categories: inner_seeing, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Reading academic text
Experience: 60% latched onto 'significant event,' innerly articulating without voice. 40% felt anxiety and stomach pain (linked but separable).
Categories: inner_speaking, feeling, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Looking at lamp on Amazon
Experience: 60% thought design and gold color good (no words/images). 20% wondered about cost. 20% felt stomach pain and 'I have to poop' sensation.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Reading on toilet
Experience: 40% saw and particularized word 'resoluteness.' 40% thought reading was useless, should read cognitive science instead (linked to anxiety). 20% coldness/wetness sensation.
Categories: sensory_awareness, unsymbolized_thinking, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Playing chess
Experience: Saw chess position on screen. Vaguely innerly saw various positions to defend back rank — cycling through inchoate inner seeings of possible moves. Anxiety that no moves were good.
Categories: inner_seeing, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 10
Context: Watching movie
Experience: 33% visually drawn to bright orangeness of lit cigarette. 33% latched onto word 'lingerie.' 33% anxiously thought about when to write paper (no words/images), diffuse bodily anxiety.
Categories: sensory_awareness, feeling, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Tristan (Graduate student, pervasive anxiety in experience)
Sampling day: 13
Context: Watching Emily put out cigarette on shoe
Experience: Visually focusing on cigarette glow and pleasing visual scene. Felt bodily frustration/anxiousness from holding breath due to smoke nausea. Contemplating asking about smoking break.
Categories: sensory_awareness, feeling, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Tristan
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Reading about aphantasia
Experience: Predominantly (70%) mouthing words without sound while simultaneously feeling slight itchiness on forehead from fan-blown hair (30%).
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_speaking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 1
Context: Holding water bottle
Experience: Felt weight of bottle in fingers and refreshingly cold water on tongue and throat simultaneously.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 2
Context: Eyes on screen without processing text
Experience: Felt 'metal-y sharpness of comb going through beard' and bodily tiredness, particularly in leg muscles and heavy eyelids.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 3
Context: Self-instructing
Experience: Innerly speaking 'John Joe end screen' (50%, no lip movements). Simultaneously saw the color purple shading from darker below to lighter above on wall (50%).
Categories: inner_speaking, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 4
Context: Reading tsunami headline and picture
Experience: Noticed 'the yellow color of the building' distinctly while simultaneously experiencing both the bristles of hair on fingertips and fingers pressing hairs into skin.
Categories: sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 5
Context: Reading on screen
Experience: Innerly spoke 'possibly interesting podcast' (most prominent) while reading '5-HT hypothesis of depression' with comprehension and slightly seeing person's face.
Categories: inner_speaking, just_reading, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Friend mentioned 'rural Ireland'
Experience: Innerly saw 'a beautiful bucolic Irish scene — green fields with ramshackle stone wall.' Felt positive/happy bodily valence from neck down centered at stomach. Heard friend talking.
Categories: inner_seeing, feeling, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 6
Context: Discussing potential podcast with friend
Experience: 50% directly apprehended thought 'that could work' without words/imagery. 50% felt bodily energization concentrated around chest area.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, feeling
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Watching football clip
Experience: Thought 'fucking hell!' (present but not spoken/heard). Simultaneously marveled at clip quality with bodily appreciation. Very aware of orange color of jersey.
Categories: unsymbolized_thinking, feeling, sensory_awareness
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin
Participant: Evan (Podcaster, interested in consciousness and neuroscience)
Sampling day: 7
Context: Eating orange while planning cell consciousness podcast
Experience: Tasted orange. Innerly saw detailed cell-receptor-triangle animation in color/motion. Wondered 'is it conscious?' Faintly felt coldness on front teeth.
Categories: sensory_awareness, inner_seeing, unsymbolized_thinking
Multiple simultaneous experiences: yes
Source: Hurlburt, IEO Evan McGloughlin