For babies, life may be like an LSD trip

Hmmmmm...<p>Seems like &quot;I found these few studies, it must mean babies are super humans that are tripping constantly!&quot;<p>Or healing happens faster because cell-division has a greater impact given the greater impact it has on total number of cells, and an abundance of stem cells still present as they develop helps with healing alongside growth and development. Then the fact that MOST things they encounter in the world are new to them which can instill a sense of awe and wonder...<p>LSD is cool but people need to chill out about it. It might have some therapeutic uses, it can absolutely cause neat visuals and even have you had lucid dream-like fantasies but come on man stop trying to compare everything to, or cure everything with, LSD and other psychotropics.

Alternatively: Adults experience Baby-like consciousness during an LSD trip.

Makes logical sense to me.<p>A baby has nothing but its own genetically inherited model worldview to map its sensor input to.<p>A model worldview that is primarily concerned with faces, treats, hunger and feelings.<p>I takes many years to map these phenomena to a fuller model of the objective world.<p>The brain and therefore the human consciousness cannot see the world as it is; the brain gets its information through sensory input. For the input to make sense it needs to be fitted to a model worldview (a table is only viewable as a table once the mess of colors coming from the eyes can be mapped to the representation of a table)

I took a strong hit of acid when I was a teenager at Glastonbury festival. I ended up falling into a delusional, catatonic state where I thought I was in some kind of war zone surrounded by dead people. Thankfully some friends found me and talked me down. I hope babies don’t have an experience like that!

I had LSD once when I was a young adolescent. It was by far the greatest drug related experience I ever had. So many colors, thoughts and stories. Sleeping the next day was difficult though.<p>Afterwards, I never felt any bodily urge to take it again, but, my mind was very keen to another round. So much, that I got scared, and never did it again.<p>Maybe I should give it another shot now that I have had babies

While a lot of this makes great sense, this:<p>&gt; Blake thought that the doors on perception are artificially kept semi-closed for cultural reasons - i.e. the ability to focus and do work for the enrichment of the powers that be<p>Just reads as an intentional satirical portrayal of &quot;anti-establishment&quot; stereotype.

Who is ray peat and why do we care? This is some late 90s weird internet. It’s good to see the crazy is still going but this stuff seems more speculative than evidence based

&gt;Blake thought that the doors on perception are artificially kept semi-closed for cultural reasons - i.e. the ability to focus and do work for the enrichment of the powers that be.<p>Statements like that sound a bit political and make me doubt what he is writing.

I don’t have much to say about this but I did get saved from a fairly bad trip by finding teletubbies on tv at 6am.

Tangentially: I was reading a study about fMRI in dyslexia the other day, and it seemed to me to indicate that the area of the brain that has lower activity and blood flow in a dyslexic was the same area they found to be reducing activity and blood flow on psychedelics. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;29412010" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;29412010</a> &#x2F; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pone.0118143" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal....</a>

I don&#x27;t know about an LSD trip but I&#x27;ve often wondered what exactly a baby perceives while in the womb or as a newborn. Their brains aren&#x27;t just sitting there as a blank state so they are experiencing something. I wouldn&#x27;t at all be surprised if it&#x27;s very trippy seeing as infants have literally nothing to hold onto to define reality as we see it.<p>I often watched my newborn staring off into empty space clearly perceiving &#x2F;something&#x2F;

I am convinced that at a young age we experience things in a way very similar to a psychedelic state. I always thought babies are in more of a DMT-state (my experiences smoking NN-DMT gave me this belief) and I guess as they get older, they slowly come into reality, so between 2 and 5, I guess it is more of an acid&#x2F;mushrooms level of experience.

Fun thought: would chronic LSD administration (i.e. making a person never not be tripping for ~1mo at a time) enable language learning at the level babies are capable of?

I&#x27;m a bit confused... Isn&#x27;t it an article encouraging consuming LSD?

If you&#x27;re not familiar with Ray Peat, here&#x27;s what the Peatarian diet looks like:<p>- 1 L milk (add salt and sugar)<p>- 1 L orange juice (add salt and sugar)<p>- 1 raw carrot<p>- bone broth<p>- NO PUFA (Omega 3&#x2F;6)