• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
    19·
    11 小时前

    Crazy people were spreading stupid shit like this on youtube for decades but I would really like to know why Vice thinks this is newsworthy now. Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    11 小时前

    Heheh. Reminds me of the guy I knew who did a DMT trip and claimed to be able to see between the atoms and retrieve lost memories.

    • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      9 小时前

      Maybe the lost memories were meant to stay lost? Who knows what eldritch horrors we uncover? I think the lost memories should stay that way: lost.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 小时前

        Memory is one of the weirdest things about the human experience, it’s still relatively unknown how we store and “revisit” memories on some levels, and our memories are not records like photographs or data on a hard-drive, they’re really more like saved simulations that you rerun every time you bring them up, this is why they can be so radically wrong or distorted from actual events. Every time you run that simulation your brain will “smooth out the edges” and fill in gaps with whatever it predicts should be there.

        Your brain is so good at doing this, that you can easily wire yourself to have false memories. Most people are unsettled by this prospect but you can use it for fun! Example: I have altered my own memory of the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow” to also include Frankenstein’s Monster as one of the dangers of the frozen world, and have clear memories of Frankenstein’s Monster clomping around with his pack of wolves looking for the protagonist. Great movie, highly recommend you watch and re-write in your mind.

        • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          18 分钟前

          I remember being taught something that resembles the idea, you wrote, when I took a course on cognition during my PhD. Memory is probably the most fascinating aspect of cognition to me, TBH.

        • chemicalprophet@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          2 小时前

          I read about this idea before with a tidbit about how because of this your best and worst memories are your least reliable. Cool thought!

      • Lemmynated@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        9 小时前

        Bring on the lost memories, if the world ends in abject horror, well it’s only speeding up what’s happening.

  • funkajunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    13 小时前

    Even if we were in a simulation, we only exist inside of it and knowledge of whether or not we are “real” doesn’t actually change our interaction with the time and space inside our universe.

    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 小时前

      Theory is that the human (and maybe other) brain creates a simulation of the world experienced through the senses and that ‘you’ interact with that. Everybody has their own simulation, no code to speak of. Drugs can ‘hack’ it by messing with the simulation and perception.

    • RedFrank24@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 小时前

      Great, I’ve been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it’s not even real Capitalism.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      3 小时前

      The only thing one could do with knowledge of being in a simulation, is trying to find bugs and exploits.
      From now on, I expect anyone claiming we live in a simulation to have a working perpetual motion device, faster that light communication, or something similarly impressive. If they don’t, their claim is meaningless useless.

      • funkajunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 小时前

        Just because they can’t find exploits in a simulation sophisticated enough to run a seemingly infinite universe doesn’t mean there’s no simulation.

        • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          3 小时前

          I know, but otherwise there is no use for the knowledge that we live in a simulation. Unless someone can contact the outside of course.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 小时前

          No, but it does mean they have no evidence of being in a simulation.

          Which is about as meaningless as saying we live in a universe dreamed up by Azathoth.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        54 分钟前

        If anyone was curious the reason for “cheese” is to turn black tar heroin into a snortable powder. It’s not really well known because people who buy tar smoke it or inject it and if you wanted to snort heroin you would just buy powder form, but powder used to be hard to find on the west coast until fentanyl became big.

    • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 小时前

      Take psychedelics, why not, go for it.
      Put lasers near your eyes, absolutely.
      But never, EVER, take psychedelics
      and ALWAYS put salt in your eyes!

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 小时前

      laser light has this way of enhancing interference patterns as it spreads out, this is why it has weird looking patterns when projected in a wide angle.

      This is also probably what the person in this post was seeing and tripping on, staring directly into a laser pointer while high as balls.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        35 分钟前

        This is true. Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Atomic Force Microscopy are two legitimate examples of using lasers near your eyes while sober.

  • Patches@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    81·
    16 小时前

    Can show you the secrets of the universe using a DMT Pen and…

    Anyone else get “Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.” vibes.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
    35·
    20 小时前

    In our lanoratory I remember an warning sign:

    Do not look at the laser with the remaining eye !!

      • pH3ra@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        13 小时前

        I’m old dude, we didn’t have vapes: if you wanted to meet your higher self you had to use a bong or a pipe

    • bobo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 小时前

      According to the dude, people with no foreknowledge also saw the same things. “Seeing the code of the matrix” definitely sounds better than “DMT enhances random patterns”.