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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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Psychedelics Are Linking Into These Mechanisms

There is a particular type of neurotransmitter that is saturating your brain during these phases during your M phases and you produce controlled hallucinations. And psychedelics are linking into these mechanisms, I suspect. So it's not just spatial relationships, but it can also be the idea, relationships between ideas that are being changed. It seems that the mechanisms that make that happen during dreaming are interacting with these same receptors that are being simulated by psychedelics.

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