The largest randomized psychedelic trial in history happened in Brazil. Its strangest finding isn’t about ayahuasca at all.

  • Cabbanis@lemmy.eco.brOP
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    3 days ago

    Are you serious? I am super curious to know more about your experience, if you don’t mind sharing.

    This particular study was not a clinical trial; it was a field experiment where participants in a religious ritual in Brazil filled a self-assessment questionnaire to measure the outcomes of the ayahuasca ceremony. This article was not peer-reviewed and is basically an explorative article rather than a rigid study, so I think your experience was different.

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      3 days ago

      I have never taken DMT or anything associated. I just managed to be there for everyone else doing it and offering it to be. I’d didn’t have a reason to refuse, I was just super paranoid.

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        I was offered it from a vape pen once, and I gave it a try, and the only thing I really noticed was that two-dimensional images looked three-dimensional, and I felt really warm, and as it faded, it kind of felt like a rush of heat went through my bladder, which made me feel like I needed to pee.

        It was interesting, it was over in like three minutes, but I probably wouldn’t do it again unless I was actually going for psychological benefits.

        Oh, I just remembered there was one other side effect, which is weird, as like somehow after doing that, I immediately knew I could write with my right hand almost as well as I could with my left hand, and I tried it, and I could, even though it was still weird and awkward, like I was doing difficult math problems in college again.

        I feel like if I kept it up I could become fully ambidextrous now.