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How Psilocybin Can Rewire Our Brain, Its Therapeutic Benefits & Its Risks

Huberman Lab

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The Effects of Psilocybin on Subjective Experiences

People under the influence of psilocybin report seeing geometric shapes and colors, but perhaps the music they're listening to will then start to change the intensity. This is referred to as synesthesia or the merging of different senses that are not ordinarily merged. And then we'll report that their pattern of breathing becomes linked to the perceptions of things that they are hearing or seeing or feeling. So those are just a couple of examples of how perceptual blending, AKA synesthesia, can occur while under the Influence of Psilocybin. It really is highly individual from one person to the next.

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