Difference in Experience Among Mindfulness Meditators

Author(s): Brown, D., Dysart, M.

Journal/Book: Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 1987; 7:

Abstract: A survey of 110 subjects was conducted to investigate the differences in the phenomenological quality of mindfulness mediators who attended retreats of either two days (twenty-seven subjects), two weeks (twenty-live subjects), or three months (fifty-eight subjects). A questionnaire, the Profile of Trance, Imaging, and Meditation Experience (TIME), was used for the survey. Discriminant analyses were used to construct models of the dimensions of experience along which the three groups differed. A number of phenomenological dimensions, in the major areas of attention, thinking, memory, imagery, body sensations, emotions, time sense, reality sense, sense of self, perception, and interpersonal interaction, were found which could accurately distinguish among the three groups of retreatants. No attributions as to the causes or sources of these phenomenological differences are made, as the survey was not large enough to provide comparison groups, subject matching or other statistical controls necessary for causal analyses.

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