Towards Meditative Experience Using Daylight

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Prabu Wardono
Andriyanto Wibisono

Abstract

Reaching a meditative experience during prayer is not easy to achieve. Infinite number of designs of mosque and church has been developed, but seemingly the result is still dissatisfied. We experimented how daylight can meet that needs and used 24 university students to evaluate the responses. The ANOVA statistic results show that the samples perceive the spatial effect from the maximum and a lesser amount of skylight above the mihrab or altar significantly differently from that of the lesser wall openings. This study proves the positive effect of daylight in achieving a meditative experience.

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Wardono, P., & Wibisono, A. (2018). Towards Meditative Experience Using Daylight. Journal of ASIAN Behavioural Studies, 3(8), 183–190. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i8.288

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