What Happens When Happy People Take Ayahuasca?
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A massive psychedelic experiment suggests the healing comes from the ritual, not just the molecule.

The largest randomized psychedelic trial in history happened in Brazil. Its strangest finding isn’t about ayahuasca at all.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I was offered it from a vape pen once, and I gave it a try, and the only thing I really noticed was that two-dimensional images looked three-dimensional, and I felt really warm, and as it faded, it kind of felt like a rush of heat went through my bladder, which made me feel like I needed to pee.

    It was interesting, it was over in like three minutes, but I probably wouldn’t do it again unless I was actually going for psychological benefits.

    Oh, I just remembered there was one other side effect, which is weird, as like somehow after doing that, I immediately knew I could write with my right hand almost as well as I could with my left hand, and I tried it, and I could, even though it was still weird and awkward, like I was doing difficult math problems in college again.

    I feel like if I kept it up I could become fully ambidextrous now.

    • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 days ago

      To get the full effects of DMT it’s best to have it in a powder form (I think) then take a hit from a crack pipe. When I had a functional vape cartridge I had to take 3-5 pulls in rapid succession to get close to the same effects. That’s the point where you start seeing geometric shapes and maybe an extra dimensional being. The one I met the one time I hit from a pipe suggested I lay off the chocolate milk.

      Like you suggested, I don’t think it’s very recreational, but it is a very interesting substance.