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Re:Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety,... by knowa42 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:54AM (#22170467)
Does it remind you of who you are on a personal level, i.e. core values, aspirations, and what makes you happy? Or does it just remind you of your humanity, thus that you're connected to billions of other people through that alone?
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Re:Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety,... by ericmcer on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:10AM (#22170660)
Lower doses are more about the former, lots of introspection and viewing my life from an altered state.

Higher doses are all about the latter, a lot more ego death and huge weighty difficult to describe type emotions.

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Re:Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety,... by asynch8 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:04AM (#22170587)
it can remind you of both, but mainly the first. I've read that during the peak of tripping LSD(assuming that something similar happens with mushrooms) your neurons and their patterns weaken, before being 'restarted' and forming even stronger bonds than before.
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Re:Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety,... by travisjungroth on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:57AM (#22170510)
For me, more the latter.
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