Posted on 04/20/2016 6:19:51 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
(CNN)Scientists have for the first time visualized the effects of LSD on the human brain.
Using brain scanning and other techniques, researchers at Imperial College London were able to show what happens when someone takes the popular (and illegal) psychedelic, scientific-name Lysergic acid diethylamide. The findings may indicate how the drug produces the complex visual hallucinations often associated with its use.
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LSD’s source - ergot, a rye mold - led some to speculate that poor food conditions in the Middle Ages, where moldy bread was common, were the source of so many “visions” during that period.
First of all: events such as sounds, smell, taste, etc. are actually recorded events, or memories, within the brain. Those memories represent stored locations within specific/physical locations within the brain that are accessed by the brains wiring and routing system.
Normally, those memory locations are only associated with and accessed by very specific pathways and activity that is related to that region of the brain such as the sense of smell, the nose's sensory organs, etc. and a memory location of a smell or a similar smell.
Now if you bypass the normal wiring of the brain and enter that region of the memory and stimulate that area via another network path, then you will have the perception of smelling something that doesn't exist. Or hear something that doesn't exist.
What LSD appears to do is to open all pathways and allows parts of the brain that wouldn't normally communicate with each other to communicate and stimulate each other.
Who takes acid nowdays?
I haven’t see any since ... well, a long time ago :)
I dunno. Long time, long gone. But there's lots of analogs... what do they call them, "designer" drugs? I don't feel invulnerable enough for self-experimentation any more. Few oldsters do.
Stay away from the “bath salts” though!
I never stuck a needle in my arm. I smoked my weight in green stuff, back in the day, but I can’t go there no more.
I have a life now, and a job, and a mortgage.
Stay safe FReeper.
Who takes acid nowdays?
Anyone with a “D” after their name.
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