"A dose of magic mushrooms is like two weeks of psychotherapy." I forgot whose quote is that. -- I am an hardcore atheist, and on Wikipedia I read that many

"A dose of magic mushrooms is like two weeks of psychotherapy." I forgot whose quote is that. -- I am an hardcore atheist, and on Wikipedia I read that many people experience God on shrooms, which convinced me to try them out. I didn't see God, but I learned that my brain is doing a LOT of sensory filtering behind the scenes [1], and when you lift that screen up, the world is mind-blowing in its complexity and beauty. The most beautiful things I've experienced with them are trees. It's like they grow a fourth dimension, and their fractal design is better than anything humans can create. Damn, I haven't had any hallucinogen in 13 years, and I'd love to chance to peer through the curtain once again. Hallucinogens simply offer a perspective, a vantage point unreachable while sober. 1: years later I learned that we have more green cones in our eyes than red and blue, to better distinguish shapes in nature. Made me smile, because I experienced that during one of my trips: I was totally mesmerized by green things because they appeared so vibrant, with much more resolution than any other colour. I remember spotting a person with green shoes from very far away, like I grew a superpower. I always had it, but in my sober life it's filtered otherwise it would be overwhelming. Many people go through their life without having had the chance to see the unrefined, raw signal of reality. EDIT: geez, tough crowd in here.