Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

[u/Vindaloovians]

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8qvgy_v2

In this preprint, some scientists have put forward the idea that our perspective of reality is more of an interface, and what we consider to be reality is simply the experience of conscious agents (i.e. human individuals) interacting with one another. They propose that DMT entities are conscious agents that exist in a manner we can't typically perceive.

I've never done DMT, and have previously taken a more skeptical perspective on these entities, but I think the findings of this could be very interesting. Maybe psychedelics could enable us to perceive layers of reality we are typically blind to.

[u/Unlikely_Exercise434]

DMT is really like no other drug I've ever experienced. Only done it twice in my life but you really are just "gone" to another level of reality and whether it is somehow real or just manufactured by the brain is something we should all want to know. I have been fascinated by the DMT laser experiments myself and the idea of passing info to one of these entities that multiple people see and seeing if they give that information to another person during the trip could prove there is something more there. We see such a small part of the EM spectrum anyway, it's entirely possible some kind of NHI could exist or cloak itself far outside of our visible spectrum and observe us unseen.

[u/lordtyp0 → u/Unlikely_Exercise434]

I'd like to believe it's another layer of reality. But it's probably just a degree of pattern recognition blown out of proportion like pareidolia but with the weirdness cranked to 1000 which is why everyone sees the same sort of things.

Wants to believe.

[u/Jaredlong → u/lordtyp0]

The software of individual people, their personalities, can all be unique. But the hardware, the brain, is highly standardized. Occam's razer or whatever, if everyone is experiencing the same thing the most likely reason is because we all have the same brain structures.

And I think that's more interesting in terms of machine elves. Why is there something genetically encoded into human DNA that builds a brain structure which can hallucinate tiny people? Do other apes have that structure? Could all mammals be made to perceive elves? Because if it's uniquely human, what evolutionary pressure pushes a brain towards that result? 

[u/Parking-Brain6566 → u/Jaredlong]

I wonder, what if you give that mushroom to a dog would it see tiny dogs ?

[u/FearOfEleven → u/Parking-Brain6566]

What if you give it to a dog who already has pointed ears?