Have you ever been in a "flow" state? Sleeping, dreaming, being stressed, being in "flow" - Altered states of consciousness are something we all experience every single day and yet there is a lot more research to be done. Linda Ariel Ventura may only be at the beginning of her academic career, but her enthusiasm for Cognitive Science is already infectious. She is a bachelor student at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück and a member of the Unimind initiative where she researches psychedelic science and altered states of consciousness.