[Broken_Hippo]

It was like someone massaged my thoughts or rinsed off my brain. Maybe it is more like a reboot. In any case, my brain felt good. So many thoughts that were negative just didn't have the same sort of affect on everything else. My worries had a different sort of framing on them. I could look at some of these things and make a reasonable decision about them. Some things, sure, I need to work on - but I was a bit more motivated to actually do so. Other things, I was able to make a decision not to be bothered by them. Since I had some time without so much mental stress, it wasn't so difficult to teach myself that those things were a bit ridiculous. I had a better sense of personal well-being and self-love that has stuck around.

I imagine doing this with an actual therapist would be even more helpful. I completely understand why it seems like a miracle for mental health in drug trials.

I've done other sorts of drugs in my life - lsd, for example. While they shaped some of my perception and thoughts about the world and life, nothing was quite like this. I couldn't describe myself as unhappy before, but now I'm really content with life.

I should now mention that I would urge folks to have caution. I can understand how folks would get addicted to it. And there is a risk of simply doing it too often and actually having the opposite effect. This is something to do occasionally, not every weekend or even once a month. The most profound change was the first time: I've done it since then, and it while (for me) it reinforces the things I learned the first time and still feel mentally refreshed the next day, it simply isn't as large of a change.

Another small sidenote: I've done it with my spouse. It also strengthened our relationship as well simply because we basically sat and talked positively for hours.