PSYC 330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Bad Trip, Psilocybin, Mescaline
16 Aug 2016
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Can alter consciousness in profound and bizarre ways. Dissociative anesthetics: not all the drugs in the category produce hallucinations o o o. Not hallucinogenic, but may be toxic in other ways. There is a toad that its venom contains a high amount of dmt. You could dry the toads skin and then smoke it. Milk the venom gland and harvest the dmt out of it: hallucinations. Similarities and differences between those due to drugs vs. psychoses. Hallucination: reported perception of something that physically does not exist. Typical hallucination is a pirate with a parrot on its shoulder. Your brain uses things that you have learned about over your life to make sense of incoming stimuli that it can"t otherwise interpret. Better term for the drugs would be: illusionogenics. Serotonergic hallucinogens: lsd and related compounds o. An lds-like hallucinogen found in the peyote cactus. Also important for mescaline and for strength of the affinity in producing hallucinations.
