I'm gonna be real, LSD helped me empathize, but not because I realized other people are just like me. I knew that.
It was because it helped me think in different ways, where I was recognizing different patterns than usual, and became more interested in plants, bugs, that kind of stuff.
It gave me a wider pool of experiences to draw on when empathizing. Now, when someone is stoked about a pretty plant or a bird or something instead of imagining what it would be like to be excited about it and empathizing from there, I can take a shortcut and draw straight from my experience being excited about that kind of stuff.
Yeah I mean I don't think most people mean they unlocked empathy or something. You can know something your whole life but experience that feeling in a new way. Like if someone was in a near death incident and they said something to me like they feel really alive, I wouldn't be like "no duh."
Anyways I get a lot of people online who talk about psychedelics are rogan listeners so yeah not a fan of those
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I'm gonna be real, LSD helped me empathize, but not because I realized other people are just like me. I knew that.
It was because it helped me think in different ways, where I was recognizing different patterns than usual, and became more interested in plants, bugs, that kind of stuff.
It gave me a wider pool of experiences to draw on when empathizing. Now, when someone is stoked about a pretty plant or a bird or something instead of imagining what it would be like to be excited about it and empathizing from there, I can take a shortcut and draw straight from my experience being excited about that kind of stuff.
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I'm so glad you got there. That dude sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about, you seem legit.
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Yeah I mean I don't think most people mean they unlocked empathy or something. You can know something your whole life but experience that feeling in a new way. Like if someone was in a near death incident and they said something to me like they feel really alive, I wouldn't be like "no duh."
Anyways I get a lot of people online who talk about psychedelics are rogan listeners so yeah not a fan of those
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