We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression

Re:We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drug... by AtHeartEngineer on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:55PM (#23459565)

The best way I can describe it is, before you experience anything like that, you are only aware of the normal/sober extents that your mind uses, and afterwards you realize that most the dials/knobs/gradients/ups/downs you've experienced are only within a small threshold of what your brain is capable of. Experiencing that allows you to have a better understanding of where your thoughts/emotions/experience fall on those spectrums the rest of your life. It puts the range you normally operate into perspective.

Think of it as a kind of messy recalibration, a jostle of the box of your mind. Jostling your box occasionally can help you sometimes break through a local optima to a more global optima, shaking the fuck out of your brain all the time, well, it'll probably make you creative but no guarantees anyone else will understand you.

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Re:We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drug... by vlasev on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:03AM (#23473800)

I think it's a pretty good analogy. I was experiencing a personal paradox of mine for over a year and no amount of writing or thinking about it helped. Then after a single experience with weed, the next day I was able to piece things together and resolve this paradox. It's been about 9 months since and the solution still holds up to my own scrutiny. I believe this would not have been possible without the weed. It's funny how a single day can help you resolve something that bothered you for hundreds of days.

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Re:We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drug... by esotericn on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:53PM (#23462128)

This is a really good description.

It also puts into context the fact that other individuals have _different_ extents.

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