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- From: krm@sdc.boeing.com (Keith Michaels)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: LSD
- Keywords: LSD Flashbacks
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:06:21 GMT
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- In article <10358@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil>, kreisel@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Robert G. Kreisel) writes:
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- |>
- |> If anyone has answers to these questions, or suggestions of good books
- |> to read on the subject, your answers would be appreciated.
- |>
- |> -rob
-
- I just finished an excellent book on the subject:
- Acid Dreams: The Social History of LSD
- The author's last name is Lee (I can't remember the first name).
- It's not a medical book, but as the title implies it chronicles the evolution
- of LSD from its discovery, through the "Acid Generation", and to the present.
-
- Re flashbacks: I heard a theory once (not in the aforementioned book) that
- the psychoactive nature of LSD is due to its ability to make random connections
- in the brain, similar to the connections that develop from normal learning
- processes. For example, learning to ride a bicycle causes new connections
- to be established between eye, hand, and balance centers in the brain.
- LSD may make just as permanent a connection between the concept of God and
- the taste of raspberries, or anything else for that matter.
-
- According to this theory, flashbacks result from the process of
- recollection, just like a "normal" mind might suddenly recall a memory because
- of a connection to it from a current situation. If the connection leads to
- a memory established long ago due to LSD, then the "trip" is "reexperienced".
- The problems arise when the conscious rational mind tries to make sense of the
- experience...
-
- Disclaimer: this is just some guys theory, and maybe I'm even remembering it
- wrong. I am not an expert in this area.
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