Carl-Richard

That's ridiculous.

Scientific literature?

@Wildcattt555 I don't see what that has to do with physical damage or addiction. Yes, it can serve as a stressor for mental illness, just like many things.

I agree. I just place it a bit higher than personal anecdotes. ?

Define chronic use of psychedelics. You're conflating the accuracy of scientific literature and prescription practices. It's not a mystery that you can prescribe medicines that have side effects. You have to weigh the pros and the cons.

I read in an academic book about public health (latest edition from 2021) that LSD is neither physically damaging nor addictive, only that it might produce terrifying experiences. However, I'm not sure if that applies to 5-MeO-DMT. It has a much beefier pharmacological profile. I think these are valid concerns. Martin Ball (5-MeO master) lately worsened his pre-existing sleep problems to dangerous levels.

I can personally confirm this having experienced DP/DR on separate occasions (both drug-induced and sober) and sober awakenings.

I think "rigid" is a bit too loaded. It's just careful. It doesn't seem like something that needs to be explained, but rather something that needs to be tested empirically, and it doesn't exactly help to point to MBTI in this regard considering how it's the least empirically sound model . Tbh, I think what MBTI is doing is explaining away their low construct validity

The desire to typologize personality is not very scientific (which is the critique of things like MBTI). Personality traits tend to follow a normal distribution in the population (one bell-shaped curve in the middle of the distribution), which is why trait models (like Big 5) are more scientific, i.e. you can score low or high on a trait (e.g. dominance), but you're really never a "dominant type" (e.g. Alpha) or "submissive type" (e.g. Beta). If the traits instead followed a bimodal distribution (one peak on each extreme), then there is a better case for a typology (one such example would be biological sex).

Maybe you should ask someone who remembers this process in detail (*cough* Sadhguru *cough*).

In NDEs where people are declared clinically dead and then revived, many people report experiences similar to God awakenings a la 5-MeO. Awakening to God happens in the domain of ego death, and ego death is what the experience of death is like. It's simply the process of distancing oneself from one's individuated physicality. Similarly in void experiences, you literally lose contact with all sense perceptions and mind activity.

I feel there is something Sci-Fi-y about going to a party with a DMT vape pen.

Get to a place where you're able to feel the immediate raw effects of healthy behaviors, learn to prefer that feeling over anything else and do whatever you can to maximize it.

I've thought about this while having a glass of water outside, and it just feels right.

Meth cooking is an art! ?

Materialism deals well with spacial locality and temporal linearity, but it's limiting for other things. You can figure out how things work without materialism, because you can establish patterns for non-local and non-linear things. For instance, for all the dreams I mentioned in that thread, it seems that the significance of the event is important. For the tornado event, Joe Biden approved a federal emergency disaster declaration for the state of Kentucky. For the death of my dad's boss, he was basically a national celebrity, and his death became headline news and impacted many people's lives. For PsychedSubstance's family problems, it forced him on a new trajectory in life, and his channel reaches millions.

Never said it wasn't.

I've had one such dream, but it also had a Sci-Fi (Psy-Fi) twist to it. God damn my writing was shit 2 years ago, I had to fix a lot of mistakes

No, but I can tell my friends about it after I wake up in the morning.

Because we can.

Can you not be so god damn abstract just for one second? ? I can't understand a word you're saying.

@Ineedanswers Intentions are validated relative to one's survival agenda. Nazis cared about the survival of themselves but not others. Same with rapists.

What about DMT aliens?

It also happened on the other side of the world (I live in Norway while Kentucky is in the US), which means that the only truly probable factor you mentioned (granting your framework) is online news articles about the tornado season, but that still doesn't sufficiently explain the timing aspect. Something you should notice about this materialistic explanation is that it is very non-specific and post-hoc. It doesn't explain exactly by which mechanism the exact representations within my mind arise (the Hard problem in a nutshell). It only deals with correlations and probabilities. Also, the strength of your argument seems to mainly depend on how many factors you want to bring up. It's like "you experienced x amount of factors, therefore it seems to make sense that x representations may arise." The exact items you choose is largely arbitrary and non-specific, and the exact quantity of items is even more arbitrary, and it's all done after the fact (hence it's post-hoc). On the other hand, the ontological idealism standpoint (of mind being non-local) is much more simple and direct (and it can also account for the timing aspect): sometimes the personal mind picks up information from events happening in the larger mind. It's extremely simple. Now, you will probably dismiss it for being too simple, because that is just the marriage between materialism and overly complicated explanations. Why is it that materialism is so complicated? Maybe that is something you should question.

@AtheisticNonduality Ok, so you got a general mechanism. Now, how do you explain the fact that I was dreaming about it temporally parallel to one of the biggest tornado events in history? (dreaming about it as it was happening). I'm also curious what type of material conditions I would need to subconsciously pick up on in order to have a symbolic representation in a dream (being chased by ghost) occurring temporally parallel to when my dad's boss would die from a drowning accident while trying to save his dog who had fallen through the ice on a lake.