Bridging the Objective/Subjective Divide: Towards a Meta-Perspective of Science and Experience1 Introduction2 Applying perspective shifts to conceptualizing human experience from the first- versus third-person perspective3 Gaining a third-person perspective on people’s first-person experience3.1 Temporal dissociations of meta-awareness 3.2 Translation dissociations of meta-awareness 3.3 Investigating temporal and translation dissociations of meta-awareness in the context of mind-wandering 3.3.1 On the veracity of self-reports of mind-wandering: How susceptible is mind-wandering to translation dissociations? 3.3.1.1 Behavioral measures3.3.1.2 Neurocognitive measures3.3.2 The intermittent meta-awareness of mind-wandering: How susceptible is mind-wandering to temporal dissociations? 3.3.2.1 Self-caught/probe-caught methodology3.3.2.2 Retrospective classification of mind-wandering episodes3.3.3 Summary3.3.3.1 Why is mind-wandering so easy to report but so difficult to catch? 3.3.3.2 Are there ways of enhancing people’s awareness of their mind-wandering?3.3.3.3 What are the implications of this approach for the more general enterprise of the science of first-person perspective? 4 Toward a meta-perspective for considering the metaphysics of first- versus third-person perspective4.1 Ontological third-person  perspective—Material reductionism4.2 Ontological first-person perspective—What material reductionism leaves out4.3 Why physicists dismiss the flow of time and the privileged present4.4 Reconciling first- and third-person perspectives of reality4.5 The possibility of a subjective dimension of reality 5 Summary and final conclusions