i'm not allowed to say this i think i'm allowed to say this uh i've eaten shrooms a couple times but i haven't gone the full i'm talking to a few researchers and psychedelics it's an interesting scientifically place like what is the portal you're entering when you take psychedelics or another would ask is like dreams whatever so let me tell you what i think which is based on nothing like this is based on my life right so i don't your intuition it's based on my it's based on my i'm guessing now um based on what i do know i would say but i think that well think about what happens so you're running your brain's running this internal model right and it's all outside of your awareness for really you see the you feel the products but you don't you don't sense the you have no awareness of the mechanics of it right it's going on all the time um and so one thing that's going on all the time that you're completely unaware of is that um when your brain your brain is basically asking itself figuratively speaking not literally right like how is the scent given the last time i was in this sensory array with this stuff going on in my body and i and that this chain of events which just occurred what did i do next what did i feel next what did i see next and so it doesn't come up with one answer it comes up with a distribution of it possible answers and then there has to be some selection process and so you have a network in your brain a sub-network in your brain a population of neurons that helps to choose it's not i'm not talking about a homunculus in your brain or anything silly like that um this is not the soul it's not the center of yourself or anything like that but there is um uh a set of neurons that weighs the probabilities uh um um and and helps to select uh or narrow the field okay and that that network is working all the time it's actually called the control network the executive control network or you can call it a fronto parietal because the regions of the brain that make it up or in the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe there are also parts that belong to the subcortical parts of your brain it doesn't really matter the point is that that there is this network and it is working all the time whether or not you feel in control whether or not you feel like you're expending effort doesn't really matter it's on all the time except when you sleep when you sleep it's it's a little bit relaxed and so think about what's happening when you sleep when you sleep the extra the external world recedes the sense data from so basically your model becomes a little bit the tethers from the world are loosened and this network which is involved in you know maybe weeding out unrealistic things is a little bit quiet so use your dreams are really your internal model that's unconstrained by the immediate world except so you can do things that you can't do in real life in your dreams right you can fly like i for example when i fly on my back in a dream i'm much faster than when i fly on my front don't ask me why i don't know when you're laying and you're back in your dream no when i'm in my dream and flying in a dream i am much faster flyer in the air very often not often but you talk about it like you i don't think i've flown for many years well you must try it i've flown i've fallen that's scary yeah but you fl you're talking about like yeah i fly my dreams and i'm way faster right and you're better on my back way faster um now you can say well you know you never flew in your life right it's conceptual combination i mean i've flown in an airplane and i've seen birds fly and i've watched movies of people flying and i know superman probably flies i don't know if he flies faster on his back but he's voice he's out of never see he's lying on his front right but yeah but anyways my point is that you know all of this stuff really um all these experiences really become part of your internal model the thing is that when you're asleep your internal mole is still being constrained by your body your your brain is always attached to your body it's always receiving sense data from your body you're mostly never aware of it uh unless you run up the stairs uh or or you know uh maybe you um are ill in some way but you're mostly not aware of it which is a really good thing because if you were you know you'd never pay attention to anything outside your own skin ever again like right now you seem like you're sitting there very calmly but you have a virtual whole thing drama right it's like a like a like an opera going on inside your body and so i think that one of the things that happens when people um take psilocybin or take uh you know ketamine for example is that the tethers completely are completely removed yeah yeah that's fascinating and then and that's why it's helpful to have a guide right because the guide is giving you sense data to steer that internal model so that it doesn't go completely off the rails yeah another so again that wiring to the other brain that's the guide is at least a tiny little tether exactly yeah you i’m not allowed to say this i think i’m allowed to say this uh i’ve eaten shrooms a couple times but i haven’t gone the full i’m talking to a few researchers and psychedelics it’s an interesting scientifically place like what is the portal you’re entering when you take psychedelics or another would ask is like dreams whatever so let me tell you what i think which is based on nothing like this is based on my life right so i don’t your intuition it’s based on my it’s based on my i’m guessing now um based on what i do know i would say but i think that well think about what happens so you’re running your brain’s running this internal model right and it’s all outside of your awareness for really you see the you feel the products but you don’t you don’t sense the you have no awareness of the mechanics of it right it’s going on all the time um and so one thing that’s going on all the time that you’re completely unaware of is that um when your brain your brain is basically asking itself figuratively speaking not literally right like how is the scent given the last time i was in this sensory array with this stuff going on in my body and i and that this chain of events which just occurred what did i do next what did i feel next what did i see next and so it doesn’t come up with one answer it comes up with a distribution of it possible answers and then there has to be some selection process and so you have a network in your brain a sub-network in your brain a population of neurons that helps to choose it’s not i’m not talking about a homunculus in your brain or anything silly like that um this is not the soul it’s not the center of yourself or anything like that but there is um uh a set of neurons that weighs the probabilities uh um um and and helps to select uh or narrow the field okay and that that network is working all the time it’s actually called the control network the executive control network or you can call it a fronto parietal because the regions of the brain that make it up or in the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe there are also parts that belong to the subcortical parts of your brain it doesn’t really matter the point is that that there is this network and it is working all the time whether or not you feel in control whether or not you feel like you’re expending effort doesn’t really matter it’s on all the time except when you sleep when you sleep it’s it’s a little bit relaxed and so think about what’s happening when you sleep when you sleep the extra the external world recedes the sense data from so basically your model becomes a little bit the tethers from the world are loosened and this network which is involved in you know maybe weeding out unrealistic things is a little bit quiet so use your dreams are really your internal model that’s unconstrained by the immediate world except so you can do things that you can’t do in real life in your dreams right you can fly like i for example when i fly on my back in a dream i’m much faster than when i fly on my front don’t ask me why i don’t know when you’re laying and you’re back in your dream no when i’m in my dream and flying in a dream i am much faster flyer in the air very often not often but you talk about it like you i don’t think i’ve flown for many years well you must try it i’ve flown i’ve fallen that’s scary yeah but you fl you’re talking about like yeah i fly my dreams and i’m way faster right and you’re better on my back way faster um now you can say well you know you never flew in your life right it’s conceptual combination i mean i’ve flown in an airplane and i’ve seen birds fly and i’ve watched movies of people flying and i know superman probably flies i don’t know if he flies faster on his back but he’s voice he’s out of never see he’s lying on his front right but yeah but anyways my point is that you know all of this stuff really um all these experiences really become part of your internal model the thing is that when you’re asleep your internal mole is still being constrained by your body your your brain is always attached to your body it’s always receiving sense data from your body you’re mostly never aware of it uh unless you run up the stairs uh or or you know uh maybe you um are ill in some way but you’re mostly not aware of it which is a really good thing because if you were you know you’d never pay attention to anything outside your own skin ever again like right now you seem like you’re sitting there very calmly but you have a virtual whole thing drama right it’s like a like a like an opera going on inside your body and so i think that one of the things that happens when people um take psilocybin or take uh you know ketamine for example is that the tethers completely are completely removed yeah yeah that’s fascinating and then and that’s why it’s helpful to have a guide right because the guide is giving you sense data to steer that internal model so that it doesn’t go completely off the rails yeah another so again that wiring to the other brain that’s the guide is at least a tiny little tether exactly yeah you