They work more on your perception. And people often talk about an initial sense of discomfort as sort of patterns, normal patterns of perception of the world and the self are broken down, and then there’s this, the phenomenological effect seems to be that you really perceive things in a very different way, whether it’s features of the, of the external world, you can see patterns and things that that weren’t previously there. You experience yourself in a very different way too, and as Stephen said, there’s a breakdown in the categories that often separate the different ways in which we normally perceive things. So we might experience ourself as not the unified separate entity that we do, or at least we think that we do day to day. I mean another question here is that we think we perceive the world and the self in particular ways and maybe we don’t actually do this all the time. And that’s the mind manifesting aspect of psychedelics. It can make clear that the repertoire of the ways in which we can have conscious experiences is very much larger than we might typically be aware of.
Silentbreakers – Unknown Lights
