Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 10:21 PM UTC

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #53

notnaut wrote: post #12

While the analogies are often useful, everyone reading HN comments should be very aware and very skeptical of just how often computer/tech people rely on computer/tech analogies to understand things that are fundamentally not computers/tech. It is very very easy for smart people with functionally specific jobs/hobbies/ways of thinking to see all reality through that narrow window. It often leads to important details…

> You can start feeling like you KNOW big sweeping Truths. Yep. During a pretty bad episode of delusional schizophrenia (for lack of any better diagnosis) I had that, many years ago. I felt like I was either on the verge of a huge epiphany or I'd just had one, for a few weeks. Every time it was nonsense or couldn't be explained. Luckily I have not relapsed and I have been off the antipsychotics for a few years The on…

Post by mistrial9 » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 10:32 PM UTC

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #110

CacheRules wrote: post #106

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Sources?

Anecdotal, but I've tripped with two people who showed seizure like symptoms that they never had before or since. Couldn't find any data at the time. Tried to get them to submit experience reports on erowid so that there would be some data out there, but they didn't want to put anything about it in writing.

Post by radlad » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 10:40 PM UTC

psunavy03 wrote: post #112

kjkjadksj wrote: post #69

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Part of the lesson of this story is the danger of having a gun in the home at all. He could have been sober and depressed and did the same just as easily thanks to having access to a gun. There's a lot of statistical evidence for how dangerous situations like depression or domestic violence can become once a gun is nearby.

Your first statement is not supported by the second. Yes, in a DV situation or a situation where someone has severe mental illness, it's probably not a good idea to have easy access to a firearm. But if you actually look at the numbers, the average firearm is not used in self-defense, nor is it used to endanger a family member. The vast majority just . . . sit there. They're machines which must be used respectfully a…

Post by jrussino » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 10:51 PM UTC

psunavy03 wrote: post #112

kjkjadksj wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of the lesson of this story is the danger of having a gun in the home at all. He could have been sober and depressed and did the same just as easily thanks to having access to a gun. There's a lot of statistical evidence for how dangerous situations like depression or domestic violence can become once a gun is nearby.

Your first statement is not supported by the second. Yes, in a DV situation or a situation where someone has severe mental illness, it's probably not a good idea to have easy access to a firearm. But if you actually look at the numbers, the average firearm is not used in self-defense, nor is it used to endanger a family member. The vast majority just . . . sit there. They're machines which must be used respectfully a…

Post by dylan604 » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 11:03 PM UTC

kjkjadksj wrote: post #66

empath75 wrote: post #49

I can't think of anything in the world I would enjoy doing less than completing "a simple auditory–visual matching task" while in an MRI scanner on shrooms.

The set and settings researchers typically use for usual psych studies are going to bias psychedelic results so much. Think that building you hated in undergrad's crusty unlit cinderblock basement with no windows but coated in cameras and microphones. Its so dystopian, you are literally a caged rat. I don't think you can perform this research in good faith without having experienced a proper trip yourself. It's just…