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, Russ - 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. WHAT YOU DO EACH DAY - Schedule a handful of beeps inside the hours you choose - Catch each one and describe the moment in your own words - Talk the day over with Russ - Done. There is no streak to keep and no missed day to make up. WHAT YOU DISCOVER Researchers keep finding five recurring kinds of inner experience: inner speaking, inner seeing, feelings, sensory awareness, and unsymbolized thinking (clear meaning with no words or images at all). Most people are surprised by their own mix. Your experience breakdown fills in as you sample and sharpens after every interview. DESIGNED AROUND THE METHOD - Describe, do not categorise. You say what was there in plain words; naming it is Russ's job, not yours. - No pressure. No streak, no score, no catching up. Miss a beep and it simply waits for you. - Beeps are scheduled on your own phone, so they work even with no signal. PRIVACY, IN PLAIN WORDS What you write is personal, so we keep it plain: no tracking, no analytics, no ads, and nothing sold. Once it is anonymised, what you write may be used to better understand inner experience and to train AI on how people describe it. You can delete your account, and everything you wrote, from inside the app. The full policy is written to actually be read. 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.