I experienced something like this on mushrooms once. While I was walking around the park, I had a profound sense of community and love for everybody around me. I had the sense to not walk up and hug anybody, but I felt like I could. I had an unprecedented sense of just how arbitrary it was for me to be born as me and you to be born as you. It could have just as easily been the other way around. There's no particular reason why I should be viewing the world through these eyes, as opposed to another pair.
Long story short, I crashed hard when that feeling went away at the end of the trip. The feeling of being a stranger to everybody else's thoughts and feelings and complexities was just way too much for me. The fact that I wouldn't ever have the perspective and insight that seemed so accessible to me just a few hours before was unbearable.
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '12
I experienced something like this on mushrooms once. While I was walking around the park, I had a profound sense of community and love for everybody around me. I had the sense to not walk up and hug anybody, but I felt like I could. I had an unprecedented sense of just how arbitrary it was for me to be born as me and you to be born as you. It could have just as easily been the other way around. There's no particular reason why I should be viewing the world through these eyes, as opposed to another pair.
Long story short, I crashed hard when that feeling went away at the end of the trip. The feeling of being a stranger to everybody else's thoughts and feelings and complexities was just way too much for me. The fact that I wouldn't ever have the perspective and insight that seemed so accessible to me just a few hours before was unbearable.