National Geographic takes a look at scientists who create 3D brain maps of people taking psychedelic trips on LSD, recording imagery their hallucinogenic experiences.
Psychedelics over-stimulate serotonin receptors in the brain, resulting in a blissful experience or a horrifying one.
via Huffington Post
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This is 1/5th science reporting, 4/5ths scaremongering. What’s really surprising is to hear narrator Peter Coyote having anything to do with this — Coyote being a Digger and a major promoter of LSD use in the 60s.
What this testing is missing is that a major part of an LSD trip is the interaction of your environment. Analyzing and mapping in a lab yields a relatively small set of data. Arguably it would be much more difficult to monitor, but likely could be done with the use of portable systems to then offload the data to be mapped later.
Letting the subject trip “normally” would be a valuable part of this research.
I second Hugh and request – more science, less scaremongering please.
Also, I think parts of this are just made up. If someone is an LSD dealer, they know what to do if they happen to have a bad trip, and do not say things like “I ingested waaay too much LSD.” Ingested, huh? Scripted. Sure there can be dangers but I repeat, where’s the science?!