RE: Seeing Things: Pareidolia in My Collage for LMAC #128
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This is a peaceful piece, like looking at an aquarium. I enjoyed your discussion of pareidolia. Under the influence of certain psychedelic chemicals, the inkblots actually transform into creatures and scenes right before your very eyes. They shift and move and morph and make sounds, they have tastes, odours, and strange sensations. You can create an entire world and universe where you live for thousands of years across multiple lifetimes, all in the space of a few minutes or even seconds. It is quite an intriguing phenomenon that tells us a lot about our consciousness, and yet in the scientific literature, there is only silence. I guess sometimes an inkblot is just an inkblot. :)
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Hello my friend, @litguru. Thank you so much for coming by and commenting. I am not opposed to mind-altering, or enhancing drugs. If used judiciously these may be (have been for many people) a transformative experience. However, I really am extraordinarily sensitive to stimuli. Enhancing my experience of the environment might not be a good idea 😁
Unfortunately, the only research on this sort of experience has been done in a military environment (!) or in a casual, recreational setting. As is true with marijuana, there are no good studies. There are no metrics. This serves I think those who want to perpetuate the idea of a drug war. It also suits the pharmaceutical industry that wants to package chemicals they can sell to us.
Maybe someday we will be a more enlightened society.
Take care of yourself. Looking forward to reading more of your highly intelligent, creative blogs.
Canada is opening up and relaxing its war on psychedelic drugs, which I distinguish from harder and truly harmful drugs like fentanyl and heroin. It's about time because psychedelics are the telescopes/microscopes of consciousness. I brought up the topic because the psychedelic experience has been often been compared to a form of time-limited schizophrenia. Thus, if we understand what is happening during the psychedelic experience then we could perhaps better understand what is going on when someone is having a psychotic episode and develop interventions to peacefully guide the patient back to normality instead of just pumping them full of tranquilizers. The interesting thing about the visions and hallucinations of someone under the influence is that they actually believe that what they are seeing is real. They have suspended the rational and logic filters and opened up a faucet of sensations and perception. This can be positive (creatively, therapeutically, artistically, scientifically) or negative (scary, confusing, etc).
Or at the very least, more scientifically curious. :)