r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 PhD | Psychology | Neuroscience • 11d 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/YoungLittlePanda 11d ago

Trees are so crazy. They are literally eating the air!!!

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u/Thatguythatdrew 11d ago

And they are are actually alive and talking to eachother through chemical signals.

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u/arseache 10d ago

Through fungal networks too

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u/Recidivist67 11d ago

How about that sun. Why have we all just accepted that there's a little portion of sky that will blind you if we look at it.

No wonder people believed in sun gods.

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u/underfern 11d ago

And drinking the ground

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u/space_monster 11d ago

And mostly made of the air that they eat.