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by Ian Sample
21/03/2023

Study gives most advanced picture yet of DMT compound’s effect on advanced functions such as imagination

The recordings reveal a profound impact across the brain, particularly in areas that are highly evolved in humans and instrumental in planning, language, memory, complex decision-making and imagination. The regions from which we conjure reality become hyperconnected, with communication more chaotic, fluid and flexible.

“At the dose we use, it is incredibly potent,” said Robin Carhart-Harris, a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. “People describe leaving this world and breaking through into another that is incredibly immersive and richly complex, sometimes being populated by other beings that they feel might hold special power over them, like gods.”

He added: “What we have seen is that DMT breaks down the basic networks of the brain, causing them to become less distinct from each other. We also see the major rhythms of the brain – that serve a largely inhibitory, constraining function – break down, and in concert, brain activity becomes more entropic or information-rich.”

The results, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the most advanced picture yet of the human brain on psychedelics. The recordings show how the brain’s normal hierarchical organisation breaks down, electrical activity becomes anarchic, and connectivity between regions soars, particularly those handling “higher level” functions such as imagination, which evolved most recently in humans. “The stronger the intensity of the experience, the more hyperconnected were those brain areas,” said Timmermann.

full.https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -scans-dmt

Everyone with unanswered questions should tried it.

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:24 pm Everyone with unanswered questions should tried it.

If that last LSD experience hadn't been such a horrifyingly insane psychological train wreck of an event, I'd be up for it.

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:35 pm

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:24 pm Everyone with unanswered questions should tried it.

If that last LSD experience hadn't been such a horrifyingly insane psychological train wreck of an event, I'd be up for it.

It is very different. LSD is a drug, Ayahuasca is medicine.
You can stay on a bad trip, you can’t stay on bad ayahuasca “trip”. Next day you back to normal. But the teachings/experience stays with you.

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:00 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:35 pm

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:24 pm Everyone with unanswered questions should tried it.

If that last LSD experience hadn't been such a horrifyingly insane psychological train wreck of an event, I'd be up for it.

It is very different. LSD is a drug, Ayahuasca is medicine.
You can stay on a bad trip, you can’t stay on bad ayahuasca “trip”. Next day you back to normal. But the teachings/experience stays with you.

Aya- dontwanna-huasca - just in case.

On my last visit in SHV there was a gruop of DMT users hanging around at Seagarden Otres. It was not a pleasant experience seeing them full on. Complete ego-trip.

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:00 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:35 pm

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:24 pm Everyone with unanswered questions should tried it.

If that last LSD experience hadn't been such a horrifyingly insane psychological train wreck of an event, I'd be up for it.

It is very different. LSD is a drug, Ayahuasca is medicine.
You can stay on a bad trip, you can’t stay on bad ayahuasca “trip”. Next day you back to normal. But the teachings/experience stays with you.

YOU think you are back to normal. That might not be the case in reality. Jenny probably genuinely believes she is normal.

Why did the Grauniad article have a headline about ayahuasca when the article is all about DMT? Sure they are related but one is raw and the other is concentrated.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:38 pm Why did the Grauniad article have a headline about ayahuasca when the article is all about DMT? Sure they are related but one is raw and the other is concentrated.

DMT is ayahuasca or chemically simlar enough;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine.......

As someone who has lost it on drugs more times than I care to remember I am all in for trying Ayahuasca or DMT.