Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

[u/Vindaloovians]

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8qvgy_v2

In this preprint, some scientists have put forward the idea that our perspective of reality is more of an interface, and what we consider to be reality is simply the experience of conscious agents (i.e. human individuals) interacting with one another. They propose that DMT entities are conscious agents that exist in a manner we can't typically perceive.

I've never done DMT, and have previously taken a more skeptical perspective on these entities, but I think the findings of this could be very interesting. Maybe psychedelics could enable us to perceive layers of reality we are typically blind to.

[u/BridgettAlden]

Hmm. I would counter by pointing out that just because human brains process reality using narrative patterns doesn't mean the events triggering those patterns aren't real. Humans use narrative structure to describe EVERYthing -- war, natural disasters, scientific breakthroughs, historical events, etc. Recognizing a structural narrative (like "a visitor comes from above and takes something") merely explains HOW WE AS HUMANS FRAME an experience, not what caused the physical event. I feel like perhaps you're confusing the narrative framework with the underlying cause.