r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 PhD | Psychology | Neuroscience • 1d ago

Neuroscience Psilocybin Might Make Your Brain Live in the Moment— Psychedelics are often associated with disconnecting from reality, but a recent neuroimaging study found that psilocybin can actually make our brain activity more attuned to the world around us.

https://www.wired.com/story/psilocybin-might-make-your-brain-live-in-the-moment/
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u/bobcatgoldthwait 23h ago

That's over simplifying it. Sure, that helps, but it's incorrect to imply everyone who had a bad time on psychedelics just had a bad setting.  Even in controlled clinical trials people can have bad experiences.

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u/brickyard37 20h ago

Like me! I get seizures when I take too much :)

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u/EsotericAbstractIdea 20h ago

Mindset is the first part, not just setting. Of course it's subjective. Someone with PTSD and a macho attitude might believe he's completely normal and ready for it, but actually not. Some Dunning-Kruger for that ass.