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Reading about DMT hallucinations is pretty fascinating, but at some point it conincidental to DMT's popularity, I became firmly convinced that a feedback loop h

Reading about DMT hallucinations is pretty fascinating, but at some point it conincidental to DMT's popularity, I became firmly convinced that a feedback loop had developed. More people took trips after hearing wild trip reports, and with those in mind, either seemed to fixate on the reports they read, finding their version what they imagined the report to be, or told tall tales to be cool. Much like the guy who turned into a glass of orange juice while tripping on LSD, the interdimensional elf gnomes seem to be this legend lore of the DMT trip now. Nonetheless, whatever the fad imaginary spirit animal is these days, it's interesting to see clinical proof that most hallucinations require a priori knowlege to envision. The mind doesn't seem capable of conuring concepts never experienced.

NathanKP 9y ago
Yeah it isn't so much conjuring new concepts as it is that the hallucinating mind connects existing concepts in ways never experienced before. So someone would never normally connect the concept of their self identity with the concept of a glass of orange juice while sober, but while high on LSD this could seem like a plausible scenario, and the synaptic connections made during that trip can persist afterward and leave a lingering sense of bizarre connection. I read a very interesting piece on the use of LSD by creative people and how some felt they benefited immensely from taking LSD precisely because of those random connections that they formed between mental concepts that they had. The basic theory was that creative people in these scenarios had minds full of concepts that would tend to work well together and could benefit because there was a high probability that the connections that formed were valuable and useful ones.
imesh 9y ago
Yeah I don't care how much Joe Rogan tells me everyone sees elves, I did DMT twice and never saw any elves or felt any presence.

NathanKP 9y ago

Yeah it isn't so much conjuring new concepts as it is that the hallucinating mind connects existing concepts in ways never experienced before. So someone would never normally connect the concept of their self identity with the concept of a glass of orange juice while sober, but while high on LSD this could seem like a plausible scenario, and the synaptic connections made during that trip can persist afterward and leave a lingering sense of bizarre connection. I read a very interesting piece on the use of LSD by creative people and how some felt they benefited immensely from taking LSD precisely because of those random connections that they formed between mental concepts that they had. The basic theory was that creative people in these scenarios had minds full of concepts that would tend to work well together and could benefit because there was a high probability that the connections that formed were valuable and useful ones.

imesh 9y ago

Yeah I don't care how much Joe Rogan tells me everyone sees elves, I did DMT twice and never saw any elves or felt any presence.