Psychedelic experience

A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are one of the stations on the spectrum of experiences elicited by psychedelic substances. On that same spectrum will be found hallucinations, distortions of perception, synaesthesia, altered states of awareness, mystical states, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.

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'''psychedelic''' experience - Hallucination - Perception - Synaesthesia - Mystical - Psychosis

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Not everyone who takes psychedelic drugs has a true psychedelic experience, and many achieve altered states of consciousness through means other than drugs — meditation, yoga, sensory deprivation, spirit quests, etc.

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Psychedelic drugs - Meditation - Yoga - Sensory deprivation - Spirit quests

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For many, the psychedelic experience is a personal thing, but there are many common themes, often focusing around a sense of connectedness. The range of this sense of connectedness appears to be relative to the strength of the experience, and ranges from a sense of connectedness to everything in the immediate vicinity, to a sense of oneness with everything.

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The range of the drug-induced psychedelic experience tends to have the ability to go far beyond that of other methods without requiring much preparation, and for that reason tends to be less predictable, much more immersive and often quite overwhelming and scary.

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