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Cumol  ·  3502 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is LSD about to return to polite society?

The moment I got to this paragraph, I was a little worried about the overall message:

    “The video is frustrating in terms of public perception,” she says. “But trepanation has had subtle but definite benefits for me, and to the other people I know who have had it done. Jamie had chronic headaches until he was trepanned, but not since. I think it has a lot of potential advantages. My theory is that trepanation improves the level of blood circulation round the brain to that of childhood. You get more blood into the brain with each heartbeat, and also an increase in washout of toxins. I’d suggest that cannabis and psychedelics do the same thing, but at a higher level. There are other techniques that can achieve this, like yogic breathing or cranial osteopathy, but trepanation is permanent.”

But then the lady also mentioned in the end that she is not a scientist and that she would rather stay in the background. Which I totally respect!

Then there were the talks about the benefits of recreational use.

A discussion I keep having with a friend is about this halo effect.

He says that taking the drugs makes you feel as if they helped you in something but all of this might be just placebo or even harming in the long term.

Now I have talked LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin and smoke Cannabis. The things I experienced were mind blowing, amazing, hard to describe. After that, I was fascinated by the substances and I am actively working on building up an NGO for the support of psychedelic studies in Germany.

I don't have the feeling that it was placebo. What about you Hubski? Do you think it could be all "fake"?





darkdantedevil  ·  3502 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Anyone can see my history with mind-altering substances here .

As to what the impacts were: well, I would say my sense of humor has changed a bit. The....absurdity of the everyday? Bleeds through more now. As an example, I occasionally think about how strange it is we keep animals in our houses. It's kind of a weird thing, which we just take for granted.

I trip whenever I get a break from both work and school (obviously I have to be in the mood as well). Trips seem to put everything in context for me, and bring to the forefront what I am worrying about. Sometimes, for example, I will just have a basal stress level, and not really notice it, but while tripping, I generally realize exactly what I am worrying about, and that's helpful to resolve it.

I certainly don't think it's a placebo, but I also don't observe many STRONG changes to myself or my ways of thinking between trips. I do think that people tend to over-value every thought they have while tripping, because it feels extremely meaningful. Writing your thoughts down and going back the day after a trip, then the week after a trip tends to put those thoughts in a more reasonable context. Some things just don't translate to sober life, some are complete nonsense, and some are valuable insight.

I certainly think that psychedelics should be examined for medical uses. It's ridiculous to say that they cannot have a strong impact on the conscious mind, I suppose the question is how predictablely positive can we make the experience? If, in proper controlled settings, we could achieve, say, a 1/50 negative experience, with 49/50 feeling positively afterwards, I would say it has very good medical utility.