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Re:People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fanta... by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday May 04, 2025 @09:06PM (#43891039)
Nope. Don't especially mind, not remembering them.

I have since learned about schizophrenia/schizoaffective (from having a family member suffer from it), and it sounds almost exactly what they went through.

The thing that I remember, was that I was absolutely certain of these “revelations.” There was no doubt, whatsoever, despite the almost complete absence of any supporting evidence.

Re:People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fanta... by akrotkov on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:24PM (#43891438)
I wonder if that's a similar mental state you have while lucid dreaming or just after waking up. You feel like you have all of the answers and struggle to write them down before your brain wipes them out.

Reading it over once fully lucid? It's gibberish.

Re:People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fanta... by Nursie on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:15AM (#43892377)
If we're talking about certain derivatives of ergot fungus ...

It's something I experienced as well, this sense of profound realisation of something important, life-changing maybe. And then the thought evaporates and (as you discovered) never really made sense anyway.

I think it's this that led people in the 60s to say things like how it was going to be a revolution, to change the world! And then they started communes and quickly realised that people are still people...

Re:People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fanta... by namaria on Monday May 05, 2025 @06:59AM (#43893660)
LSD is a dirtbike of the mind. Some people can do amazing cross country trails, some people can fall off and break their skulls instantly.
Re:People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fanta... by iggldiggl on Monday May 05, 2025 @10:12AM (#43895370)
There's that Paul McCartney anecdote how he thought he'd found the meaning of life during one of his first drug experiences and the next morning he found a piece of paper on which he'd written "There are seven levels".