Comment by deepsun
8 months ago
I swear psilocybin affects the sense of importance, sacredness, meaningfulness. One can be staring at the most boring thing and see the Universe in it. Doesn't mean there's really anything important nor useful in it. Just like a shot of dopamine affects feeling of pleasure, psilocybin affects the brain's feeling of "importance".
You make it sound very negative. It’s a strong experience, and after a strong experience most people have it on their mind, and talking about it is one way to integrate the experience. Previously insufferable people have a new channel to be insufferable, scientific people will analyze what their brain chemistry did, dull people will brag about how extreme it was, and so on.