businessman’s trip
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DMT is used as a psychedelic drug […] DMT has a rapid onset, intense effects, and a relatively short duration of action. For those reasons, DMT was known as the “businessman’s trip” during the 1960s in the United States, as a user could access the full depth of a psychedelic experience in considerably less time than with other substances such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms.
DMT reliably induces profound experiences of immersion in other worlds and encounters with seemingly autonomous presences, yet the lived qualities and unfolding of these experiences remain poorly understood. Using micro-phenomenological interviews with twenty-three healthy participants who received DMT during fMRI scanning, this study explores how these experiences arise and develop in awareness. Micro-phenomenological analysis reveals rich dimensions of immersive experience - from multisensory engagement to radical reconfigurations of self and world - and illuminates the varied ways presences can be seen, felt, or otherwise sensed.
Acetaminophen (paracetamol) can blunt various emotional states and evaluations, seemingly through the same mechanisms by which it dulls the affective component of physical pain. […] findings suggest that acetaminophen might reduce cautious behaviors in dangerous situations, but could also be potentially useful in clinical settings where overly cautious and avoidant behaviors are disproportionate to the danger posed.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, raised $60 million for the basic-income study, including $14 million of his own money. […] The experiment gave low-income participants $1,000 a month for three years, no strings attached. […] Recipients experienced decreased financial stress, but that faded over time, the study found [read more]
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