Well, just by reading the abstract I can’t tell if the results are positive or not. But glad to see more research being done on this area.
victor22•14m ago
Who over here in HN has tried DMT?
isoprophlex•9m ago
I did a LOT of that. We made our own in undergrad; depending on audacity and effort we made stuff ranging from beautifully clear, crystalline needles to stuff that looked like satans' earwax. Extremely memorable stuff, that at that moment in life, was a very good thing to happen to me in order to learn how to connect with my feelings.
CuriouslyC•10m ago
TL;DR: DMT makes brainwaves simpler and more disordered. I have a scientific background and I'm quite familiar with DMT, but I'm struggling to take anything meaningful from this.
isoprophlex•8m ago
They found that DMT disrupts the brainwave patterns that, if you squint a bit, belong to what Hofstadter calls the "strange loop" of consciousness. In a sense it is as you'd expect.
Lucasoato•9m ago
> We find that DMT shifts the normally dominant alpha oscillations towards a quieter subcritical state, increasing entropy while reducing complexity, and that this shift correlates with intensity of disruption of the sense of self.
Wait, is this a good or a bad thing? Asking for a friend.
awakeasleep•8m ago
Its terrible if you’re trying to drive or operate machinery
isoprophlex•5m ago
... Unless said machinery is built by the machine elves, of course.
ireadmevs•18m ago