How long does it take to read The Doors of Perception?
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley takes about 1 hour 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 27 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1954. 79 pages, about 21,725 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Doors of Perception is Aldous Huxley's account of taking mescaline one morning in May 1953, hoping to glimpse unusual states of mind. Instead of visionary landscapes, he finds his perception of the everyday world transformed, with ordinary objects taking on startling significance while time and the sense of a separate self recede. He draws on philosophy, art and religious traditions to interpret this, considering what the brain filters out, the relation between contemplation and action, and the link to madness. He argues that psychedelics can open a route to mystical insight.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: English essays, Peyote, Hallucinogens, Hallucinogenic drugs, Mescaline, Visions
