I’ve never went on a trip, but I always find descriptions of the experience puzzling. The various things that people describe seem like things I “do” myself when I put my mind to it.
This confuses me as either people are bad at describing what the experience is like or I’m different from people who write about their experiences on LSD.
edit: To be clear, people generally note that it’s difficult to put into language what the experience is like, so when I say people are bad at describing the experience, I don’t believe this to be an accountable failure on the explainers part.
LSD doesn’t make your brain do anything your brain is incapable of doing, just many things that your brain hasn’t done in a long while. The best description I can give is that it gives you the intellectual openness of a 5-year-old, the emotional openness of a 3-year-old, and the sensory experience of perhaps a baby who has not formed strong enough predictions of things like “the clouds don’t shift in shape while I look at them”. All of these are in your brain, but they’re usually suppressed by the strong top-down predictions and ego-narrative that are generated by parts of your brain like the Default Mode Network. Psychedelics suppress the DMN and let the rest of your brain run free.
I’ve never went on a trip, but I always find descriptions of the experience puzzling. The various things that people describe seem like things I “do” myself when I put my mind to it.
This confuses me as either people are bad at describing what the experience is like or I’m different from people who write about their experiences on LSD.
edit: To be clear, people generally note that it’s difficult to put into language what the experience is like, so when I say people are bad at describing the experience, I don’t believe this to be an accountable failure on the explainers part.
LSD doesn’t make your brain do anything your brain is incapable of doing, just many things that your brain hasn’t done in a long while. The best description I can give is that it gives you the intellectual openness of a 5-year-old, the emotional openness of a 3-year-old, and the sensory experience of perhaps a baby who has not formed strong enough predictions of things like “the clouds don’t shift in shape while I look at them”. All of these are in your brain, but they’re usually suppressed by the strong top-down predictions and ego-narrative that are generated by parts of your brain like the Default Mode Network. Psychedelics suppress the DMN and let the rest of your brain run free.