Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago#93,354
My entire life I always played video games with the y-axis look inverted, not too sure why that's just how it worked in my brain. My friends always gave me shit for switching the controls but one day while I was tripping on acid when I was 17 I picked up my controller and go "wtf who took off my look inversion?" To find out that it was already on. Sense then I've been playing video games with standard look control and it's been 4 years. Not too exciting but I thought this was very interesting
Dodongo !ZQvsveEcD6 joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 18 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,057,425
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I believe it, psychedelics can have some very strange, long-lasting effects. I think it is less a chemical thing, and more the experience itself that causes a shift in habits or personality or what have you, in much the same way that other powerful life experiences can affect us.
Anonymous B replied with this 6 years ago, 2 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,057,495
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LOL Not quite at the level of "fact" yet, bud. All of that is citing one 2012 paper where a team went back and did a meta-analysis of research from 60s and 70s. The meta-analysis did find a significant effect in the short term (3-6 months) based on self-report measures of alcohol abuse in some studies but the significance dropped after that. Further complicating the meta-analysis, many of the studies analyzed introduced LSD in addition to other treatment components (support groups, individualized counseling, occupational training, rehabilitation plans, etc.) which makes isolating variables or determining interaction of independent variables difficult or impossible across studies.
It's certainly plausible that a psychedelic experience might affect an individual in such a way as to alter addictive behavior patterns. That conclusion is far from established though and probably not applicable in general to all cases. Even if that conclusion one day stands on firmer evidential ground, the limits of that effect will have to be explored beyond a handful of mostly male 20-50 year olds from 50 years ago.
It would be more accurate to say that the idea LSD could assist or be effectively used in conjunction with other treatments of alcoholism is more of an open question with a few promising leads.
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Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 41 seconds later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,057,496
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I am eager to participate..