(Created an alternative username for replying to this because I don’t want to associate my LSD use with my real name.)
I’d just like to add a contrary datapoint—I had a one pretty intense trip that you might describe as “fucking weird”, which was certainly mind-blowing in a sense. My sense of time transformed stopped being linear and started feeling like it was a labyrinth that I could walk in, I alternatively perceived the other people in the room as being real separate people or as parts of my own subconsciousness, and at one point it felt like my unity of consciousness shattered into a thousand different strands of thought which I could perceive as complex geometric visualizations...
But afterwards, it didn’t particularly feel like I’d have learned anything. It was a weird and cool experience, but that was it. You say that one’s worldview won’t be the same after coming down, but I don’t feel like the trip changed anything. At most it might’ve given me some mildly interesting hypotheses about the way the brain might work.
I’m guessing that the main reason for this might be that I already thought of my reality as being essentially constructed by my brain. Tripping did confirm that a bit, but then I never had serious doubts about it in the first place.
(Created an alternative username for replying to this because I don’t want to associate my LSD use with my real name.)
I’d just like to add a contrary datapoint—I had a one pretty intense trip that you might describe as “fucking weird”, which was certainly mind-blowing in a sense. My sense of time transformed stopped being linear and started feeling like it was a labyrinth that I could walk in, I alternatively perceived the other people in the room as being real separate people or as parts of my own subconsciousness, and at one point it felt like my unity of consciousness shattered into a thousand different strands of thought which I could perceive as complex geometric visualizations...
But afterwards, it didn’t particularly feel like I’d have learned anything. It was a weird and cool experience, but that was it. You say that one’s worldview won’t be the same after coming down, but I don’t feel like the trip changed anything. At most it might’ve given me some mildly interesting hypotheses about the way the brain might work.
I’m guessing that the main reason for this might be that I already thought of my reality as being essentially constructed by my brain. Tripping did confirm that a bit, but then I never had serious doubts about it in the first place.