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by mehwoot
1235 days ago
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why is it so common for people to think psychedelics are opening us up to what is ""real"" or some deeper truth Because the very changes in brain chemistry you're talking about affect your ability to determine whether something is real or not. Many psychedelics cause Apophenia, Pareidolia and other disorders. In loose terms, the ability of your brain to determine what information is meaningful or not is affected and you begin to over interpret the meaningfulness of things that happen and your own thoughts. So your idle thought becomes some earth-shattering revelation. Something similar can happen to people with Schizophrenia. They'll be walking down a street and see a license plate XUE-383 and the function of the brain that tells whether something is meaningful or not misfires, telling them that this is very important. The brain then tries to explain why this is incredibly important, hence hidden messages, spies, all sorts of things. You can of course be on drugs or schizophrenic and understand this is what is happening but it's hard to override an emotion with logic. |
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