I never considered it to be "the answer" to everything by any means but the way it seemed to temporarily "scramble" my usual, established thought patterns and p

I never considered it to be "the answer" to everything by any means but the way it seemed to temporarily "scramble" my usual, established thought patterns and perceptions made it very easy to look at and consider things as if from a different angle or perspective. I think our natural mechanisms for filtering out stimuli so we can focus on the things deemed important are useful as a whole. They're the result of millennia of evolution. But at the same time, I wonder if occasionally, those same mechanisms make it easy to miss things. I don't think LSD and friends are the only way around this nor do they guarantee any "useful" results from the temporary state they induce. At the same time, I think it can be rewarding or at least interesting to look at everything as if for the first time at least once or twice in your life if that's something that sounds appealing to you. I was never interested in taking large doses like some people I knew back in college. Those dudes who would eat like 5 or 10 hits of acid and "trip balls" seemed nuts to me. I was cool with taking 1 or 1.5 a few times in my early 20's and found it interesting with little of the anxiety that seemed to constitute the dreaded "bad trip" I'd heard so much about.