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> I believe there’s a lot of truth to it, from my experience it totally matches a mini psychotic event. From Wikipedia: "Psychosis is an abnormal condition of
by blubb-fish 9y ago
> I believe there’s a lot of truth to it, from my experience it totally matches a mini psychotic event.
From Wikipedia: "Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that involves a loss of contact with reality."
If we use this definition I'd be inclined to differ. LSD only to some extent and under certain circumstances will cause of loss of contact with reality. In my experience LSD intensifies perception and affect to such an extent that it can become overwhelming. It also alternates how we see things.
Like overclocking a CPU will make it faster and more useful until a point where starts to work unreliable.
- StavrosK 9y agoI have the exact same reaction as you, but many of my friends don't. I'm perfectly lucid and have never lost reality, I just get very intense perception and am hypersensitive to social cues (I read too much into people's reactions).
- psyc 9y agoIt depends on how extreme your standard for break with reality is. Most trip reports I've read indicate a break with consensus interpretation of reality, which is consistent with psychosis. I have experienced bipolar psychosis twice, and LSD psychosis ~12 times, and subjectively they are far more similar than not. I'd say they are only barely distinguishable by subtle intangibles. Again, subjectively.
- djtriptych 9y agoOverclocking a CPU seems to me to be analogous to a manic episode. So, not too far off to say LSD can be used to mimic a psychotic break.