Table 1. Ratings on the dimension of the Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) rating scale [25] within the 3 Hz and 10 Hz conditions.
5D-ASC Dimension | 3 Hz | 10 Hz | p | ||
M | SD | M | SD | ||
Altered State of Consciousness (global) | 12.04 | 9.66 | 14.20 | 10.27 | 0.034 |
Auditory Alterations | 2.67 | 4.73 | 5.48 | 10.03 | 0.375 |
Dread of Ego Dissolution | 7.25 | 5.35 | 7.09 | 6.71 | 0.663 |
Oceanic Boundlessness | 13.41 | 16.14 | 15.85 | 15.85 | 0.065 |
Vigilance Reduction | 32.13 | 25.17 | 32.63 | 20.12 | 0.855 |
Visionary Restructuralization | 15.60 | 10.44 | 20.12 | 13.13 | 0.039 |
11-ASC Dimension | 3 Hz | 10 Hz | p | ||
M | SD | M | SD | ||
Anxiety | 1.64 | 2.51 | 2.81 | 5.31 | 0.671 |
Audio-Visual Synesthesia | 6.61 | 9.11 | 10.31 | 12.86 | 0.117 |
Blissful State | 12.78 | 21.40 | 16.56 | 20.79 | 0.522 |
Changed Meaning of Percepts | 5.78 | 9.20 | 7.56 | 10.53 | 0.117 |
Complex Imagery | 16.93 | 24.61 | 20.90 | 26.36 | 0.169 |
Disembodiment | 18.04 | 24.70 | 16.46 | 24.12 | 0.961 |
Elementary Imagery | 48.44 | 27.59 | 63.05 | 27.90 | 0.060 |
Experience of Unity | 14.50 | 20.51 | 15.45 | 18.89 | 0.756 |
Impaired Control and Cognition | 13.91 | 12.57 | 12.14 | 12.19 | 0.262 |
Insightfulness | 5.94 | 12.05 | 9.89 | 16.80 | 0.316 |
Spiritual Experience | 3.87 | 7.25 | 6.54 | 12.66 | 0.135 |
Note. Differences between conditions were assessed by Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. Data were analyzed according to the five-dimensional ASC Rating Scale (5D-ASC) scheme and to the 11 subscales of the ASC Rating Scale (11-ASC). Mean and standard deviation are reported in percentages.