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Comedy Central animates Shane Mauss DMT "Tales from the Trip"
🕑 Added 2020-07-29 21:40:19 +0000 UTCComedy Central animated one of comedian Shane Mauss' DMT trip reports. Again I'm not much of a fan of trip reports, don't like to influence other people's experiences, but this is a good example of the wild possibilities when it comes to DMT. It is also another example of how far psychedelics have come when comedy central is even jumping on board! I actually talked to Shane about this story before, he swears he never told this friend anything at all about the "Purple Woman" before his experience (which is hard to believe, I wonder if his friend just heard about it indirectly).
And just to throw a little science into the mix to "balance out" the perspectives you will come across... One common theme with DMT is this "sense of the familiar" either places or entities that seem familiar or a sense of "going home" to some place you've been before or seeing a person/entity that you feel like you've known for a long time. I did some research into that phenomenon, and it turns out scientists have actually been able to trigger this strange & beautiful sensation without any drugs at all. As we know from MRI scans, when people are on psychedelics, their brain activity lights up like a Christmas tree with regions that don't normally connect, appearing to do so.
Hope this doesn't ruin the "magic" for you, but this "sense of the familiar" or deja vu is a "mind trick" that can be reproduced in the lab without drugs, just from precise electrical stimulation within the temporal lobe (a region of the brain that is particularly known to be stimulated by psychedelics). It is quite likely that DMT and other substances can stimulate this same part of the brain that causes the sensation of deja vu (or familiarity with a place or entity).
Also note that anxiety (like pre-trip anxiety that is so common especially with DMT) can cause deja vu according to published research findings. On a personal note, I had considerable "deja vu" the day BEFORE I used DMT for the first time, something I thought was pretty unusual at the time, but now I understand why...
Regards,
Gordo
Comments
Scout
Thanks so much for this post! I’ve been fascinated by that intense feeling of familiarity—like visiting a forgotten place you have been to many many times in the past. I would like to read about that research if you can direct me to it.
GordoTEK
Yes and yes. I actually watched the premier of Psychonautics with Shane in person (remember back when people could meet up? Seems like so long ago, haha).
The Beehive Ashram
Those Comedy Central skits are good. Did you see the first one Shane did? Have you seen PSYCHONAUTICS?
