Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

Post by jules-jules » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 6:26 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…

Post by mistermann » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

stvltvs wrote: post #240

mistermann wrote: post #135

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> Before using psychedelics, it's important to anchor ourselves by questioning the difference between knowing something and feeling like we know something. The inverse seems more prudent to me, since mostly all global decisions get made when not on psychedelics, and we arguably have a severe lack of truly novel, out of the box ideas...who knows, maybe something useful for addressing climate change, polarization, etc…

Idea generation from psychedelics is okay, but we should avoid thinking we've received a divine revelation of unquestionable truth because it felt true.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

aatd86 wrote: post #126

core_dumped wrote: post #83

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Similar thing. My good friend and early college roommate took his own life with a gun after having a bad trip. I wasn’t there for it, but the way he described it he felt ridiculed and deserted by his old high school friends during the trip. He was left alone to deal with these feelings. His mood post trip became increasingly abysmal. He became highly paranoid, and started questioning the loyalty of the people close t…

Access to weapons is also a problem. That could have been a transient event he would have recovered from.

Post by sjm » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 8:26 PM UTC

jojobas wrote: post #186

dyauspitr wrote: post #175

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I’ll back you up but having done shrooms about a dozen times decades ago, you’re really missing out on a truly out of this world experience.

Betting your life to get a hallucination is not worth it even at 1:10000 odds. Guess what - you're missing out on a fentanyl high, so awesome that people sell all they have to get more!

Post by ipaddr » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

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The amount of antivax shit that floats around in a supposedly well informed community such as this is nauseating. Makes me lose my faith in humanity a bit every time I read it.