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MichaelGG on July 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking ...

A: Hallucinations are not always that common. You can have intense experiences without actual visual hallucinations.

B: While they made me a side effect, it seems the benefits come from having experiences, not as ongoing medication like SSRIs. That is, people can have a deep experience, possibly have audio and/or visual hallucinations, then recover for a day and have a significantly different outlook on life.

Retric on July 4, 2014 [–]

B: That's not quite true, there is ex some LSD research around pain management where people where far from having hallucinations.

cnp on July 6, 2014 | [–]

Guys and Gals, I'm pretty sure this person typing above is a BOT.

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