For babies, life may be like an LSD trip
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For babies, life may be like an LSD trip
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#2Alternatively: Adults experience Baby-like consciousness during an LSD trip.
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#3Hmmmmm...
Seems like "I found these few studies, it must mean babies are super humans that are tripping constantly!"
Or healing happens faster because cell-division has a greater impact given the greater impact it has on total number of cells, and an abundance of stem cells still present as they develop helps with healing alongside growth and development. Then the fact that MOST things they encounter in the world are new to them which can instill a sense of awe and wonder...
LSD is cool but people need to chill out about it. It might have some therapeutic uses, it can absolutely cause neat visuals and even have you had lucid dream-like fantasies but come on man stop trying to compare everything to, or cure everything with, LSD and other psychotropics.
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#4I had LSD once when I was a young adolescent. It was by far the greatest drug related experience I ever had. So many colors, thoughts and stories. Sleeping the next day was difficult though.
Afterwards, I never felt any bodily urge to take it again, but, my mind was very keen to another round. So much, that I got scared, and never did it again.
Maybe I should give it another shot now that I have had babies
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#5While a lot of this makes great sense, this:
> Blake thought that the doors on perception are artificially kept semi-closed for cultural reasons - i.e. the ability to focus and do work for the enrichment of the powers that be
Just reads as an intentional satirical portrayal of "anti-establishment" stereotype.
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#6Alternatively: Adults experience Baby-like consciousness during an LSD trip.
Alternatively 2: Adults experience headaches reading extended segments of bolded _underlined_ text.
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#7Makes logical sense to me.
A baby has nothing but its own genetically inherited model worldview to map its sensor input to.
A model worldview that is primarily concerned with faces, treats, hunger and feelings.
I takes many years to map these phenomena to a fuller model of the objective world.
The brain and therefore the human consciousness cannot see the world as it is; the brain gets its information through sensory input. For the input to make sense it needs to be fitted to a model worldview (a table is only viewable as a table once the mess of colors coming from the eyes can be mapped to the representation of a table)
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#8>Blake thought that the doors on perception are artificially kept semi-closed for cultural reasons - i.e. the ability to focus and do work for the enrichment of the powers that be.
Statements like that sound a bit political and make me doubt what he is writing.
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#9While a lot of this makes great sense, this: > Blake thought that the doors on perception are artificially kept semi-closed for cultural reasons - i.e. the ability to focus and do work for the enrichment of the powers that be Just reads as an intentional satirical portrayal of "anti-establishment" stereotype.
I've also read a study that images the brain on LSD which shows that there's less activity in perception which kind of goes against the folk story of LSD opening one up to input. What happens is that some input gets stopped and so, common to all illusions, the brain creates stuff to fill in the gaps. This might be just to do with hallucinations though.
In other words, LSD closes the doors of perception rather than opens them!
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#10I took a strong hit of acid when I was a teenager at Glastonbury festival. I ended up falling into a delusional, catatonic state where I thought I was in some kind of war zone surrounded by dead people. Thankfully some friends found me and talked me down. I hope babies don’t have an experience like that!