Hyperventilating leads to hallucinations instead of stimulation. I went to a Holotropic Breathwork session once. Some years before that, I went to a Sufi workshop in NYC where Hu was chanted to get the same result. I have to admit I cheated at both events—I limited my breathing rate or depth so not much happened to me.
Listening to the reports from the other participants of the Holotropic Breathwork session made my motives very clear to me. I don’t want any of that. I like the way my mind works. I might consider making purposeful and careful changes to how my mind works, but I do not want random changes. I don’t take psychoactive drugs for the same reason.
Random changes can be useful. Human minds are not good at being creative and exploring solution space. They can’t give “random” numbers, and will tend to round ideas they have towards the nearest cached pattern. The occasional jolt of randomness can lead to unexplored sections of solution space.
Hyperventilating leads to hallucinations instead of stimulation.
With me, hyperventilation leads to just a woozy/l’m-gonna-faint feeling.
As an aside, if you hyperventilate for several minutes, you then can stop breathing for a surprisingly long time. You just go around your daily routine—and not breathe. It’s a weird experience :-/
Yes, I learned that from no-equipment divers. With this simple trick people can look around down there with just a mask and fin. They claim with practice the mental effect disappears.
Don’t hyperventilate before diving (or at all, really). It doesn’t oxygenate blood more than ordinary breathing but it does confuse the breathing reflex allowing you to overextend yourself and possibly drown.
For free diving, sure, but the weirdness is in walking around your kitchen (or office, or whatever) for several minutes and not breathing. Especially when you realize that if you want to talk, you need some flow of air in your throat :-/
Hyperventilating leads to hallucinations instead of stimulation. I went to a Holotropic Breathwork session once. Some years before that, I went to a Sufi workshop in NYC where Hu was chanted to get the same result. I have to admit I cheated at both events—I limited my breathing rate or depth so not much happened to me.
Listening to the reports from the other participants of the Holotropic Breathwork session made my motives very clear to me. I don’t want any of that. I like the way my mind works. I might consider making purposeful and careful changes to how my mind works, but I do not want random changes. I don’t take psychoactive drugs for the same reason.
Random changes can be useful. Human minds are not good at being creative and exploring solution space. They can’t give “random” numbers, and will tend to round ideas they have towards the nearest cached pattern. The occasional jolt of randomness can lead to unexplored sections of solution space.
With me, hyperventilation leads to just a woozy/l’m-gonna-faint feeling.
As an aside, if you hyperventilate for several minutes, you then can stop breathing for a surprisingly long time. You just go around your daily routine—and not breathe. It’s a weird experience :-/
Yes, I learned that from no-equipment divers. With this simple trick people can look around down there with just a mask and fin. They claim with practice the mental effect disappears.
Don’t hyperventilate before diving (or at all, really). It doesn’t oxygenate blood more than ordinary breathing but it does confuse the breathing reflex allowing you to overextend yourself and possibly drown.
For free diving, sure, but the weirdness is in walking around your kitchen (or office, or whatever) for several minutes and not breathing. Especially when you realize that if you want to talk, you need some flow of air in your throat :-/