Re:High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the bra...
by jeffbee on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:25AM
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That’s the wonderful thing about drugs: they trigger the areas of the brain that normally signal an insight or epiphany, but without the hassle of having an actual epiphany. In reality you’re lying motionless on the floor for hours thinking nothing.
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Re:High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the bra...
by tasty_freeze on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:54PM
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Ages ago my next older brother told me that when he smoked pot he liked to sit and think because he had deep insights, and the right answer to what he was considering was clearer than in a sober state.
He didn't smoke around me and I hadn't (and still haven't) smoked pot. One Saturday night he came home and it was obvious he was pretty baked. That is when he dropped one of his insight bombshells on me: Stevie Wonder is the Frank Sinatra of our generation.
I had the same though you just made: maybe it wasn't that he had clearer insights, just the perception of it because other thoughts that might contradict the conclusion didn't cross his mind.
Re:High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the bra...
by pinopinopino on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:49AM
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That is correct, but it is only half of the story. I think, I have to say it for the lack of a better word for it, but 'spiritual experiences' are worthwhile. They are not void of value.
You shouldn't do it to often. But that is with all drugs.