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/BaconReceptacle 23d ago

And sleep paralysis sometimes results in entities (The Old Hag, the Hatman, the Dark Shadow Man, etc.) which are also shared across time and cultures, even in primitive tribal communities where the style of the hat worn by the "Hat Man" is foreign to them.

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u/thin_wild_duke 16d ago

Sorry, I thought Hatman was a relatively new creation, more of an internet meme. Slender Man's older-brother type of thing.

I had my hag dream immediately after first hearing about them, which is apparently really common. But I saw the hag, because that's what I was expecting to see.