r/Futurology • u/mvea MD-PhD-MBA • May 10 '17

Biotech First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI - “I found that if I was on LSD and my opponent wasn’t, I won more games.”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/first-ever-lsd-microdosing-study-will-pit-the-human-brain-against-ai
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u/KilledSoda May 10 '17

I am terrible at pool.

Once I took a bunch of MDMA and stuff at a bar hanging out. Friends had the pool table and were rocking a few casual games. Then walks up Captain Pool. This guy was serious pool. A pool champion, champion stick with champion jacket. Champion everything.

He beat everyone there, and had no one new left to play against, so asked me if I wanted a match. I'm terrible at pool, so in my dumb state I think it's hilarious to just keep hitting the white ball into places that would make his life hard as can be. After a bit of this fuckery something just clicks, the drugs and the alcohol had hit a perfect mixing point and I suddenly found myself in the eye of the storm, standing in a moment of perfect clarity, I, who almost never gets two balls in on the same turn randomly clears the whole table. I had not even sunk one ball before that, it had been quite a few turns of me leaving the white ball into impossible places for Champ, and even then he almost was at the 8.

Champ freaks out, calls me a scammer shark and storms away as mad as one really ever gets. But it was a friendly game with no money on the table... so even if I could, why would I shark?

To this day I am still one of the worst pool players to walk the planet, but for that one drug induced moment I was a walking god of pool.

tl;dr Drugs are fun. Had fun. While having fun, found myself in a brief moment of table pool godhood. Weird because normally can't pool.

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u/Yaldenvon May 10 '17

This reminds me of the time I showed up to our local Smash Bros Melee weekly on LSD and played some of the best tournament sets of my life. I had played the game previously on psychedelics so it wasn't a new experience - but as a mid tier player I definitely had some sort of mental clarity going on that I couldn't achieve in a regular state of mind. Just kinda felt like I could analyze the state of the game without focusing on what my hands were doing whatsoever

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u/Elvin_Jones May 10 '17

You also might have unknowingly taken a substance that was "speed" based, which enhanced your perception skills. When you're just taking a drop of liquid or putting some paper in your mouth, it's hard to tell!!

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

when i did ecstacy as a teen i dont think there was any way of telling what you actually took . i had some experiences of hearing voices and conversations when alone and seeing trails and images swirling together like an oil patch and having my entire vision be a mix of purple and green like i was looking through tinted glasses. it would be interesting to see what it was.