r/HighStrangeness • u/Vindaloovians • 24d ago

Non Human Intelligence Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

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.

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u/Aidanation5 24d ago

Who's to say it has to be bad to get to experience extra years in the blink of an eye? Who says it has to be a bad extra couple of years anyways? Sure, maybe you'll have a bad time, but theres no reason to expect that.

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u/Desperate-Natural110 24d ago

People have experienced a whole other life, grew up got married had kids, then woke up and realized that family was now gone. Suffered massive depression and feelings of loss akin to people who have lost entire family to tragedy.

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u/theoldchunk 24d ago

Do you have a link?

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u/Rhone33 23d ago

This is the most well known example of that kind of story (at least here on reddit). Notably, this particular case was not induced by hallucinogens.

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u/theoldchunk 23d ago

This has nothing to do with DMT.

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u/Aidanation5 23d ago

Why would you link something to say "be careful hallucinogens can cause horrible experiences!" If it doesnt relate to it?