He felt the world would be a better place if more people understood this. 'A portion of the self overflows into the outer world, into objects, which begin to live, to have another, a deeper meaning,' he wrote. You are the church and the tree and the hill.Īlbert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, described this in his book LSD: My Problem Child. You are the pizza and the world beyond the windowsill. This can create the perception that you and, say, the pizza you're eating are no longer separate entities. Your brain on acid, flooded with signals crisscrossing between these regions, begins muddling the things you see, feel, taste or hear around you with you. Tagliazucchi speculates that what's happening is a confusion of information. 'The stronger that communication, the stronger the experience of the dissolution ,' says Enzo Tagliazucchi, the lead author and a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Their sensory cortices, which process sensations like sight and touch, became far more connected than usual to the frontal parietal network, which is involved with our sense of self.
