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by sergiomattei 1611 days ago
X for Doubt, but interesting nonetheless.

Not so sure about spraying psychoactive chemicals up my brain without more trip reports though…

Edit: apparently a study found it ineffective https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/intranasal-oxytocin-ineffe...

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Hung out with a guy at BM for a week who swore by it.

His baseline was different than the Redditor presents as theirs, but he had comparable if scaled down versions of the same claims and experience.

He had brought cases of his go-to spray and was giving them out to anyone interested for self experimentation. AFAIK modulo source control there is not much risk from these nasal sprays.

Tried some myself. Would not claim to be able to differentiate any affective difference from placebo and set/setting effects. Which at BM are considerable. But at the time I thought I might have gotten a peasant if mild social-anxiety and general equanimity bump.

I am not a native, please what is BM?
In this context, I presume that BM means Burning Man, though it took me a while to arrive at that answer.
In my opinion, the mu-opioid receptor is a more promising target for autism (some forms of ASD anyway)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28369738/