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0 pointshenearkr5y ago0 comments

When I was not yet a teetotaler, each time I was hitting my maths textbooks after a few drinks, I could not believe my level of focus, and everything was clear and obvious. Textbook pages were flying at a speed never seen.

Of course the next day, when re-reading the same pages, I was always discovering that the previous day I had everything wrong, nothing was obvious, and all my reasoning when with alcohol was false because simplistic and oblivious of any mathematical rigor.

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centimeter5y ago· 1 in thread

Similar effect with psilocybin or LSD - you think you had a really profound and insightful experience, but once you think back on it you realize that (most of the time) you just got the impression that it was profound and insightful.

gassius5y ago

Its there any difference between having a profound experience and having "just the impression" of it?

Also, nothing is comparable between alcohol and psychodelics

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ThrowawayR25y ago

Not a great idea for studying anyway because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory

In short, ability to recall memories is at least in part dependent on being in a similar state to the time when memories are formed, e.g. something learned while being intoxicated will be more easily recalled only when intoxicated again.

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