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"For the most part, those that indulge in more “traditional” hallucinogens at moderate dosages are able to retain full functionality and awareness of the illusory nature of their altered perceptions." I have no experience with this, so I wonder if it is true. It's not how I imagine the "high" state and not how it seems to me portrayed in literature and media.
"For the most part, those that indulge in more “traditional” hallucinogens at moderate dosages are able to retain full functionality and awareness of the illusory nature of their altered perceptions." I have no experience with this, so I wonder if it is true. It's not how I imagine the "high" state and not how it seems to me portrayed in literature and media.
The article deals with one of the specific kind of drugs[2] that "kind of" work that way.
To be fair, interacting with real people who are high while one is sober can get boring pretty fast. Maybe that makes accurate portrayal in fiction not worth it.
[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...
We do have other perhaps similar “shared experiences” in the form of fear of snakes, which is theorized to come from primate evolution — we may even have “hard-coded” snake detection! Anecdotally and according to some studies, people can recognize a snake faster than they would even consciously realize it. This is also what snake attack survivors often tell. Maybe something similar exists for Hatman, it is just being repressed by default? Another evolutionary fear are birds as far as I know, plus fire. Some think this may be the origin of dragons (flying, fire-breathing snakes).
"For the most part, those that indulge in more “traditional” hallucinogens at moderate dosages are able to retain full functionality and awareness of the illusory nature of their altered perceptions." I have no experience with this, so I wonder if it is true. It's not how I imagine the "high" state and not how it seems to me portrayed in literature and media.
"For the most part, those that indulge in more “traditional” hallucinogens at moderate dosages are able to retain full functionality and awareness of the illusory nature of their altered perceptions." I have no experience with this, so I wonder if it is true. It's not how I imagine the "high" state and not how it seems to me portrayed in literature and media.
Getting your character high is just a narrative vehicle to some tropey destination[1]. It is sometimes done in a deliberately exaggerated tongue-in-cheek manner ("This is how squares must think drugs are always like!") by the ones that know better, but oftentimes it must be just plain unawareness and/or disregard for realism. The article deals with one of the specific kind of drugs[2] that "kind of" work that way. To…
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...