strange article.. i wonder why ffytche doesnt capitalise his name? anyway I had trouble relating this to psychedelic hallucinations, or to anything at all other than seeing pretty colours under certain conditions of flashing light? maybe this explains psychedelic phenomenon by saying that psychedelics sort of make the connection between eyes and brain choppy, to give qan effect similar to using a strobe visual stimulus... but thats a matter of TRYING to make sense of the document what did you think the article was saying, rb10101?
Still absorbing. I'm not certain I can align this particular research with chemically induced experiences. However, if the way our brains filter information... rather, the way these filters are disrupted while under chemical influence... (thinking out loud) What if... the brain were not readily capable of managing the additional input from the suspension of said filters? What if the brain were forced to alternate inputs? Further, what if the reduced effect of a strong (dosage of substance X resulting in >12 hr experience) was due to the brains adaptation to the additional input? I find that in similar experiences, while OEV/CEV occurrences decrease over time, the introspection remains. Perhaps OEV/CEV occurrences of the psychedelic experience were due simply the brains in ability to immediately process common and new inputs simultaneously; a strobe of input which decreases as the brain adapts. I feel I'm not adequately expressing my thoughts. Perhaps someone with a greater understanding will chime in.
Changes in the trip over the duration may have a biochemical explanation: that the drug will bind in a certain area of the brain for x amount of time, and then releases, but binds a different area of the brain for y amount of time. The effects will alter based on the time it stays in a certain area of the brain. Of course this wouldn't account for everything that happens, or the results of redosing.
That's very interesting because my whole life I have had a very strange problem, every time I'm in a moving vehicle and I'm looking towards the sun and it's being filtered very rapidly by trees, I fall into a trance-like state, almost blacking out sometimes. It's actually very pleasurable and I welcome it every time it happens.
