Accounts of people describing deep meditation often present such states as "pure consciousness experience" which feel alert yet are practically devoid of any content other than "awareness itself." In general, these states are described as timeless, suggesting a loss of the notion of time and other aspects of temporal phenomena, including concepts such as the past and future. But if one is aware of being consciously awake and alert, shouldn't one also be aware of being awake for some time? Can deep meditative states be truly timeless?