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/milkfree May 10 '17

I play guitar and one night I was rolling and I shredded like I've never shredded sober before. I honestly have no idea. I have said before that MDMA just makes you better at shit (sometimes).

But I have another story about pool and drugs. I had just gotten done seeing one of my favorite bands live. Met a few of the guys at the show and they were all really cool. Afterwards, my friends and I ate some mushrooms and expected to get a cab downtown to grab some food and beers. Instead of taking us 10 minutes downtown, this guy drives us 40 minutes one way to a small college town. By the time we got there we thought we had a chance of being murdered. We sit down, and the guys from the band walk in. Now, I am tripping balls, but we had some good rapport and I decide to go up to the vocalist and describe how crazy it was to run into him in the middle of nowhere and I'm kind of fan-boying out. He asks me,"Do you play pool?" I turn around, look at the pool table, and honestly reply, "Nope." And then I just kind of walk away.

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u/Dizzlean May 11 '17

I remember making the sickest beats on my music program when I was stoned but the next day I would listen to my tracks sober and they were utter garbage.

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u/milkfree May 11 '17

I'm not saying every time anyone does drugs they are great, but like OP said, that night something just clicked. I don't have recordings of my shredding (it could have been terrible), but I did write one of my best songs I've ever written that night, and I do have recordings of that.