MyQualia

MyQualia helps you catch your own experience in the act. Most of us have no real idea what is going on in our heads moment to moment. We think we do, but the instant you try to look, you have already tidied it up. MyQualia uses a method built to get around exactly that. A few times a day, at random moments, your phone beeps. Right then, you jot down what was actually in your awareness the instant before: the words, the picture, the feeling, the bodily sensation, or nothing in particular. That is it. It takes about a minute. At the end of the day, Jinx - an AI interviewer - talks your notes over with you, one beep at a time. He asks the kind of careful, patient questions that help you separate what was really there from the story you tell about it afterwards. Over days and weeks, a picture builds of what your inner life is actually made of. This is Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), the method psychologist Russell Hurlburt developed to study inner experience, moved out of the lab and onto your phone. MyQualia is for curious adults. It is not therapy or a medical device, and Russ is not a clinician. If you are struggling with your mental health, please talk to a doctor.