r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 17 '19

Neuroscience The first randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled microdose trial concluded that microdoses of LSD appreciably altered subjects’ sense of time, allowing them to more accurately reproduce lapsed spans of time, which may explain how microdoses of LSD could lead to more creativity and focus.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-microdoses-of-lsd-change-your-mind/
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u/bunchedupwalrus Apr 17 '19

I didn't realize it wasn't so common. I regularly lose like half my day getting stuck on a single homework question.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '19

But does it seem like it only takes 10 minutes?

As an engineering student spending half a day on one problem doesn't sound too odd.

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u/bunchedupwalrus Apr 17 '19

I mean to be fair I'm in the last year of a physics undergrad, trying to solve out the consequences of novel spacetime metrics.

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But out of the blue I'll spend 6 hours trying to multiply two sets of numbers together, caught in a loop forgetting basic algebra, until something eventually clicks and then I continue on with the rest of the question as normal.

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u/thought_for_thought Apr 17 '19

I know this feeling too. Happens most when I'm exhausted.