<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>i&#39;m pretty sure in all 3 cases my brain/limbics were emitting some chemical i don&#39;t normally produce</p><p>what weirds me out is the idea that some people are in this state constantly and that i might have met such not just once. for example 7 years ago i looked into the eyes of a certain person (that i only met that once), saw something distinctly coordinated, and since then have been getting random shivers down my spine for no reason, it happened again when i remembered</p>

<p>Kind of thinking &quot;now&quot; given that I have band practice tonight.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> wait until the students consume it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> fun fact: being able to invoke this mental state at will is a learnable skill</p><p>you can also limit it to various parts of your mind, which is useful for more precise alterations. i don&#39;t do psychedelics anymore as i feel them to be too crude of a tool</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@plj" class="u-url mention">@<span>plj</span></a></span> i do not share that worldview</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://is.badat.dev/users/meithecatte" class="u-url mention">@<span>meithecatte</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> yes, although i would sharply separate the addiction part of it for various reasons</p><p>mdma in particular is incredibly dangerous and nobody who is in a remotely precarious situation should be doing it, other than as an alternative to suicide</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I would just copy some slides from the nearest neighbour</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>oh so *that&#39;s* what the flavor meant!</p><p>experienced this 3 times. twice was under neuroaugmentation (different kinds, one strong, one very light), other twice was under acute stress in situations with potential life or death ramifications</p><p>and yeah reality in this state has a specific flavor (not taste). i know of nothing that i can compare it with and memory of it is difficult to evoke but it&#39;s a very distinct senseform that of course nobody ever fucking warned me about</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> logically one leads to the other, no?</p>