Psychosis and serotonins 5ht2a receptor , HDAC and chronic anti-psychotic use
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@NoeticJuice said in Psychosis and serotonins 5ht2a receptor , HDAC and chronic anti-psychotic use:
@user2 I was thinking more in the context of things like schizophrenia or drug-induced psychosis.
I think visions are facilitated by the right hemisphere. In the case of visions without psychosis, while the person still remains sane, there's less distortion, so they can be better used for one's own benefit. I think it's similar for dreams.
Whatever people see from taking drugs is almost certainly distorted to a greater or lesser degree.
If someone feel what he is seeing on drugs is real, it is real, real/reality is a feeling. If by distortion you mean not as real, not as true, illusory, it aint necessary any of these, potentially either the drug change the state/structure of the person temporary therefore the person perceive a different reality during this time, or what the person is seeing on drugs is the body inner agency/attempt to inner agency, and the differents drugs elements do manifest/are perceive as differents visual phenomenons, and it is all real
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@user2 said in Psychosis and serotonins 5ht2a receptor , HDAC and chronic anti-psychotic use:
real/reality is a feeling . . . and it is all real
(we already went over this in a different thread, although my thoughts have changed to some extent)
Experience is real. Whatever we experience is real. However, there's more to reality than an individual's experience, and I feel it's still correct to say that some experiences are more aligned with reality than others.
With the greatest understanding and clarity of perception, reality is truly beautiful. (Not that I'm in that state currently)
However, if a drug makes a person experience an elevated mood or beauty (it's good to make a distinction between those two), it doesn't necessarily mean that they perceive with the greatest degree of clarity, and it could still be--and, I think, usually is--very warped.
In the context of drugs, and also to some extent human experience in general, the rational (if it's right to call it that) mind warps perception to fit within its framework as well as possible.
The process of clearing perception includes clearing away misconceptions in the framework, as well as getting more direct experience of reality without interference. These two aren't really that separated.
