>but they're not entirely so and seem to be capturing some patterns that my brain is picking up that I can't articulate through other mechanisms. Drugs made me

>but they're not entirely so and seem to be capturing some patterns that my brain is picking up that I can't articulate through other mechanisms. Drugs made me more aware of how routinely our brains mildly hallucinate in ways that are designed to be imperceptible so as to 'smooth over' our perception of the world (i.e. our blind spots https://visionaryeyecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/eye-test-find-your-blind-spot-in-each-eye/ https://visionaryeyecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/eye-test-f... ). It always seemed as if drug-induced hallucinations were less some kind of emergent or externally-imposed phenomenon and more of the drugs simply ratcheting up the misfire rate on normal systems of consciousness like face recognition, pattern recognition, piecing together incomplete information via extrapolation from memory, etc. Learning to recognize this kind of 'misfire' and label it as distinct from objective reality was enormously helpful to me when it occurred to my emotions later, because of bipolar disorder.