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#189 - Psychonauts Are Now Mapping Hyper-Dimensional Worlds | Andrew Gallimore

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DMT and Schizophrenia

In the 1950s, scientists thought there was some aberrant metabolism in certain people where they produce more DMT than normal. And this is responsible for schizophrenia. But it turned out to be difficult to find any significant relationship. So when you take DMT, your brain is constructing a different world model. It's constructing a different model of reality. In the normal waking state, this world model is constrained by a constant trickle of sensory information from that thing outside that we call the environment.

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