Hallucinations here are not "really" hallucinations in a sense you rarely actually see things that are not there (for that, google deliriants). It's more like,

Hallucinations here are not "really" hallucinations in a sense you rarely actually see things that are not there (for that, google deliriants). It's more like, everyone is acting out a certain role or a set of role in lives, and have been doing it for so long that they have forgotten they are just acting. LSD and such smash the fourth wall of human theater, allowing actors to realize they are actors. Once they have realized this they have several options: 1) Continue playing the role they were playing after coming down, if they like it. 2) Change the role -- hence why a lot of people change their lives after dropping psychedelics. 3) Leave the play for a while -- this is possibly why some people commit suicide after psychedelics. It's like, imagine you're coding.. and you're just so in flow that you forget you can do anything but code: you don't go to the bathroom, forget about food, in the zone. Now somebody snaps the chair out of you, and you realize you can do more things than just code. Now imagine you've been coding for 10-20 years straight. Well, acid is like that guy who snaps the chair out of you. Society considers it dangerous because it has spend so much time making you exactly what it wants, training you, brainwashing you with random shit that it doesn't want you to actually gain control of who you want to be. You wouldn't want a dog you trained for years to bring sticks and shit on the toilet to realize all of a sudden it doesn't have to follow your commands all the time. I suppose, and I just realized this now, that psychedelics are a way of chemically disabling social conditioning for a while. Perhaps marijuana is associated with lack of motivation not because it makes you unable to do things, but because it makes you realize some things are not worth giving a fuck about.