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Those who have used DMT often talk about machine elves. I imagine there is a part of the brain that specifically recognizes humanoid figures even in the distanc
by adzm 2mo ago
Those who have used DMT often talk about machine elves. I imagine there is a part of the brain that specifically recognizes humanoid figures even in the distance that is getting overstimulated.
- wraptile 2mo agoyour eyes are usually closed during DMT trip so I don't think your hypothesis stands.
- xboxnolifes 2mo agoThankfully your brain continues working even when your eyes are closed.
- TonyStr 2mo agoRemember when stable diffusion would create image soups full of horrifying humanoid faces and figures? I imagine something similar happens when you dull the brain in the right way.
- colordrops 2mo agoAssuming your model of reality is materialist and all of reality is created by grey matter, then yes.
- birdsongs 2mo agoThis is obviously just anecdotal, but when I was 6 I got very ill with the flu and was in bed for days. Super high fever and was quite out of it. I had a, idk, spell one afternoon where I saw this quilt we had on the wall open up at all the squares, and thousands of tiny people/elves poured out. They marched around carrying little boxes and were all around me. I remember it so vividly more than 30 years later because it freaked me out so much. Tried telling my parents about it and they just dismissed it as a nightmare, but I swear I was awake, just out of it with fever. Anyways, it was early 90's, and I know I was close to the dangerous temperatures of high fever. Perhaps the brain does interesting hallucinations in these situations? Have never hallucinated or had anything like that happen since.
- phist_mcgee 2mo agoI've hallucinated with fevers before, and they do feel surprising that you swear you are awake, but perhaps you're really in a twilight between awake and asleep and the dreams break through.
- birdsongs 2mo agoYeah. To be clear I don't think anything mystical happened, it was just my brain doing very odd thing outside of its default state.
- boorang 2mo agolikewise, the opening to Comfortably Numb always resonates.
- hinkley 2mo agoYou can get brain damage and seizures with a high fever and we knew that in the 90’s. We already had almost all of the fever controlling drugs we use today by the 90’s. What the hell was wrong with your parents? Do you still talk to them? That’s child abuse, buddy.
- pavel_lishin 2mo agoYou're interpolating a lot from a little.
- birdsongs 2mo agoI really don't need you to tell me the reality of my past, like I don't already understand these things. It's also not the topic we're here to discuss. Go be mad elsewhere, please.
- pavel_lishin 2mo agoI've had very, very bad dreams and hallucinations when I had fevers as a child. Never saw tiny people, but definitely had weird non-euclidean experiences, and my parents told me that I'd be laying there screaming about something that I had no memory of the next day.
- OroPla 2mo agoI've read about someone "exploring" the DMT realm with the machine elves by putting a hundred or so willing participants into that state and they found that multiple participants encountered the same machine elf, so there's more going on than just that. Also, machine elves are not all humanoid. Some of them are complex geometrical shapes that are too complicated to parse. It was very fascinating to read about this phenomenon. I remember that what people described felt like some kind of Internet that is accesses with your consciousness.
- DaiPlusPlus 2mo ago> multiple participants encountered the same machine elf Repeat the experiment and instruct the participants to ask the Elf for the solution to P=NP and let’s see what happens!
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago>Some of them are complex geometrical shapes that are too complicated to parse. What happens if you see Brown Jenkins?
- hinkley 2mo agoOne hundred participants and two saw the same elf is just the birthday paradox isn’t it?
- shostack 2mo agoSo like, some spren from Roshar?