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Direct realist, individualist, libertarian, dove. Trying to overcome my biases.

Poor Kathy. The Doctor should have rescued her from 1920 after he got his T.A.R.D.I.S. back.

I want to try it sometime. I hear drying makes it less toxic.

You’re right; Captain Marvel was released after Infinity War. In my memory they were reversed because she showed up in Infinity War’s post-credits scene. I did see Ms. Marvel before I canceled my Disney+ subscription, and I enjoyed the first half of it. They followed the Peter Parker formula—teenager gains super powers but still has teenage problems—and gave it a Muslim twist.

I stopped watching after Sylvester McCoy because the writing was so bad. (Okay, technically I stopped watching after Paul McGann, but I never finished McCoy’s episodes.)

nostr:npub17ranr5vpp20etheaz78u6e72pvyc0xk3r6rgnetfvtxc88acat2q4nhenz This is beautifully restored and Ava Gardner stars in it, but I don’t know why Pandora loves the Dutchman in this movie. #filmstr

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043899/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

LSD is a stimulant and psilocybin is a sedative. I once read an article which showed brain scans of people on trips. The LSD user’s brain was lighted up, while the psilocybin user’s brain was mostly dark. That fits with my experiences. On mushrooms, unless I deliberately occupy my mind, the gravity of the drug pulls me into a twilight consciousness. (I have never actually fallen asleep.) With my brain in partial shutdown, I constantly feel like I’m missing something. This condition seems to generate paranoid thoughts, though none that I actually believe in.

Wow, I need to bookmark this note. One thing I noticed early on about psychedelic trips is that I would become much more interested in figuring out other people’s thoughts and feelings, even people I was watching on television. At first that didn’t last beyond the trips but somehow, perhaps by giving me practice, it did. I think I’m noticeably more empathetic than I was before psychedelics. Or maybe I just got older, not sure. I never used to believe the people who told me that psychedelics made you a better person, because some of the psychonauts I encountered online were obviously jerks. Maybe they were worse before? 🤷

My experience of psychedelics is that they deconstruct my experience. Part of that is (sometimes) separation of an observer from my thoughts and my emotions. After I discovered what that was like, it made it easier to detach in normal life. Perhaps I could improve that skill with meditation, but so far I haven’t.

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Sorry, did that ruin it? I’ll stop.