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My take on this is that the drugs make the feelings and experience so strong it must be real. It’s so overwhelmingly strong that it must be real, because it fee
by maCDzP 4y ago
My take on this is that the drugs make the feelings and experience so strong it must be real. It’s so overwhelmingly strong that it must be real, because it feels real.
But it’s still a hallucination.
On the other hand it could enable new strong feelings towards things that before didn’t elicit those feelings. And you get a new perspective on those things. Which could be a good thing if you are depressed for example.
- Maursault 4y ago> But it’s still a hallucination. Not to undermine your point, which is fine, but hallucinations are rare. Pseudo-hallucinations are pretty common, but usually what it is that is experienced, which you describe accurately, is technically delusion, i.e. thinking something that feels very real, an irresistible self-deception, as opposed to literally seeing and/or hearing it.