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What I Learned from Hallucinogens

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Published on Aug 20, 2012

Dr. Oliver Sacks talks about how hallucinogenic drugs helped him empathize with his patients. Subscribe to our free newsletter! at www.oliversacks.com

HALLUCINATIONS, Dr. Sacks's new book, will be published November 2012. Pre-order it now!

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  • AllSamHarrisContent

    Sam Harris brought me here.

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  • omgrainbow1

    Dam, to roll one with Sam and just talk about the world....Now that my friends, would be INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!

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  • mjk3367

    if you don't love yourself you don't care what you put in your body (food/drugs) and what shape it is in

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  • mjk3367

    and psychedelics can help you make you love yourself and everything in the world :)

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  • mjk3367

    most illnesses are due to not loving yourself, once you love yourself, all illnesses magically disappear because the body is more adaptable and able to heal than you would ever have imagined

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  • mjk3367

    if only he could prescribe psychedelics to his patients, that is how it should work, instead of all the addictive chemical junk most docs prescribe

    psychedelics are non-addictive and safer than coffee, except for a minority of people (but they can be screened out by the doc easily)

    wish my doc had taken psychedelics, he doesn't care about his patients

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  • Dan Bloom

    quite true, yes. and you nailed it, yes. light sleeper, dreams allo my life,highly creative artist poet thinker, Lippy just gives me more statins. wild...but what is in the statins to do this? Pfizer will not answer jmy emails, why?

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  • staphinfection

    I love how he hints at the notion that chronic amphetamine users or addicts are "rats", without actually flat out saying it. Those people probably were shitty people to begin with and the drug just intensified their douchebaginess. Don't just immediately presume that someone who does or has done meth recreationally is automatically a "tweaker" 'cause it's just brainwashing to keep you from trying drugs. Those meth mouth ads are fucking stupid. Why don't we have similar ads for sugar and candy?

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  • staphinfection

    I have a theory about your dreams, but I'm no doctor. I have had amazing vivid dreams all my life. I suspect that you have had vivid dreams most of your life, but just never knew it because you were a different type of sleeper before lipitor and your heart condition. I attribute vivid dreams to being woken up during deep sleep. I am a light-deep sleeper. I can sleep anywhere at anytime, but often wake up at the slightest movement or sound. When I'm drunk or really tired, I don't have dreams.

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  • staphinfection

    He also experimented with stimulants when he was a med student, most likely methamphetamines or meth, which everyone thinks is so bad and if you do it once you'll be a tweaker and lose your family, house, money, teeth, blah blah blah. But it's just a ploy to get you to not do drugs. And I agree, most people should NOT do drugs, but some should definitely try and experiment. JUST REMEMBER, MODERATION IS KEY!!!

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  • Dan Bloom

    I am writing a blog now titled STATIN ISLAND, about my

    use of the drug LIPITOR for my heart condition and stent, 10 mgs every

    night, the statins in the pills give me nightly surreal vivid

    vicacious dreams, 24/7 for 3 years now, without fail. I want to know

    what is in the statins that does this to me, and i want to know if

    Lipitor would make a useful recreational drug for anyone, of any age,

    for dreaming at night. Any side effects if there is no heart trouble?

    email = danbloom AT gmail

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