gonzebo
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So as I was reading the original question and the following answers, things suddenly started clicking in my brain as I was finally able to link a few ideas I've had floating around lately.
Primarily, I've been reading Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception". While that deals with mescaline, I feel that the basic nature of psychedelics transcends the specifics of each individual substance.
Let's start at the beginning. Through my research in Psychology, I have discovered that your unconscious constantly deals with approximately 2 million pieces (bits) of information (data). This is a gargantuan number, as your conscious can only process 5 - 9 pieces of data without becoming overwhelmed. Therefore, filters must be in place "between" the unconscious and conscious that will reduce all the possible data to a manageable quantity.
Therefore, these filters must only allow passage to the data that is required for basic survival. This happens to be information relating to spatial and temporal (space and time) dimensions, "how fast is that object moving towards me?" would be an example, or, in a much more vague fashion, "what in relation to what?".
What happens when you take said psychedelic, is the amount of data that the filters "conceal" from your conscious is reduced because the "bottleneck" of the filters is loosened, allowing more to trespass from the unconscious to the conscious. This is why, when a sober person looks at grass, they may say it is all 1 shade of green, but someone on mushrooms may tell you that they see 50 different colours there. Simply speaking, when you are on mushrooms, a lot of the BIOLOGICALLY USELESS information that your brain would otherwise not be concerned with because it does not require it to survive makes it to your conscious.
Likewise, I believe this is why creativity is boosted when on said psychedelics. If you think of the information transfers between unconscious and conscious in regards to external information (i.e. received from your senses through contact with the external environment/world), you can also apply the same logic to internal information. I would imagine that there must be loads of great ideas and conceptions in my brain that I will never be aware of when sober simply because my brain has more important things to focus on. But, when the mushrooms are in action, space and time become much more meaningless, although by no means non-existent.
Does this make some sense?
Primarily, I've been reading Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception". While that deals with mescaline, I feel that the basic nature of psychedelics transcends the specifics of each individual substance.
Let's start at the beginning. Through my research in Psychology, I have discovered that your unconscious constantly deals with approximately 2 million pieces (bits) of information (data). This is a gargantuan number, as your conscious can only process 5 - 9 pieces of data without becoming overwhelmed. Therefore, filters must be in place "between" the unconscious and conscious that will reduce all the possible data to a manageable quantity.
Therefore, these filters must only allow passage to the data that is required for basic survival. This happens to be information relating to spatial and temporal (space and time) dimensions, "how fast is that object moving towards me?" would be an example, or, in a much more vague fashion, "what in relation to what?".
What happens when you take said psychedelic, is the amount of data that the filters "conceal" from your conscious is reduced because the "bottleneck" of the filters is loosened, allowing more to trespass from the unconscious to the conscious. This is why, when a sober person looks at grass, they may say it is all 1 shade of green, but someone on mushrooms may tell you that they see 50 different colours there. Simply speaking, when you are on mushrooms, a lot of the BIOLOGICALLY USELESS information that your brain would otherwise not be concerned with because it does not require it to survive makes it to your conscious.
Likewise, I believe this is why creativity is boosted when on said psychedelics. If you think of the information transfers between unconscious and conscious in regards to external information (i.e. received from your senses through contact with the external environment/world), you can also apply the same logic to internal information. I would imagine that there must be loads of great ideas and conceptions in my brain that I will never be aware of when sober simply because my brain has more important things to focus on. But, when the mushrooms are in action, space and time become much more meaningless, although by no means non-existent.
Does this make some sense?
