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Comparing reports of psychedelic and meditation experiences using language analysis
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Abstract
Essence
Psychedelic and meditation reports were broadly similar, but psychedelic experiences appeared more emotionally intense.
Evidence
This exploratory study analyzed 197 open-ended reports of meaningful experiences, including 134 psychedelic and 63 meditation reports, using text similarity, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis.
Caveat
The conclusions are limited by self-reported narratives and methodological limits in the dataset and NLP approach.
Simplified
Key numbers
39.27 years
Age of Participants
Average age of participants.
27.78% of 5058 unique words
Shared Vocabulary
Percentage of unique words shared between and experience reports.
0.972
Cosine Similarity
Cosine similarity score between average embeddings of and reports.
Psychedelic Science