Andrew Huberman· PhD
I remember one participant during the session, but he held onto this afterward, said, "My god, it's like I can really just decide, like flicking off a button, I can decide not to smoke".
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I remember one participant during the session, but he held onto this afterward, said, "My god, it's like I can really just decide, like flicking off a button, I can decide not to smoke".
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I call these duh experiences with psychedelics, 'cause people often, like in the cancer stage, you say, "I'm causing most of my own suffering". I can follow my appointments. I can do everything, but I can still plan for the... I'm not getting outside in the sunshine. I'm not playing with my grandkids. I'm choosing to do that.
And it's I call these duh experiences with psychedelics because people often like in the cancer study say I'm causing most of my own suffering. Like I can I can follow my appointments. I can do everything, but I can still plan for the vac. I'm not getting outside, you know, in the sunshine. I'm not playing with my grandkids. I'm choosing to do that. And it's like they told themselves that before and the smoker has told themselves a million times. I can. And it so it sounds when it comes out of their mouths and folks will say this is part of the ineffability of a psychedelic experience. Folks like I know this sounds like and this sounds like but my god I could just sigh. Like they're feeling this gravity of agency that seems to be at times fundamentally like supercharged from a psychedelic experience.