Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin

Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by pantalaimon on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:43AM (#36429513)

Opioids are the most dangerous as they go straight to satisfy your deepest desires like nothing else, anyone can fall for them.

I feel it takes a certain kind of person to get hooked on stimulants, I just find them rather boring.

Those are also drugs that can be rather subtle, so it’s possible to integrate them into daily life which makes starting an African easy.

Psychedelics on the other hand are much too intense of an experience to take casually, those truly let you tinker with consciousness. Most people will take them a couple of times a year at most and are fine.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by danielbln on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:08AM (#36430889)

Psychdelics are only intense and borderline overwhelming with a high dose, at low/micro doses they have a very different effect/expression. That's why microdosing is a thing, and why the term "museum dose" exists.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by spoiler on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:15AM (#36430961)

There's some research that shows that microdosing psilocybin isn't nearly (or at all) as effective as taking a regular dose. "Heroic" doses seem most promising from the neurological/neuroplasticity aspect, but yeah they can be... Quite something (even when you take care of S&S).

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by grugagag on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:23AM (#36431039)

Never heard of the museum dose term. Can you share your experience?

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by morog on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:13AM (#36431653)

Museum dose is somewhere between art gallery dose and planetarium dose. Under forest explorer dose and way under isolated beach dose.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by danielbln on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:11AM (#36432453)

At least in the LSD world it is said that 10mcg is a microdose, 20-50mcg is a museum dose (meaning, you can appreciate and navigate a museum while being acutely affected by the effects of the psychedelic, but not to a degree that it's overwhelming/debilitating. Anything north of 100mcg is a "proper" recreational dose, and a heroic dose I believe is anything from 300mcg upwards (very dependant on person, experience, tolerance).

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by FeteCommuniste on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:30PM (#36435708)

What does "starting an African" mean?

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by pantalaimon on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:26PM (#36592098)

It should mean "starting an addiction" but auto-correct decided otherwise :/

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