XPost: alt.drugs.psychedelics, alt.drugs, alt.drugs.rfg   
   XPost: rec.drugs.psychedelic   
   From: be@here.now   
      
   Once upon a timeless moment,   
   BilZ0r  hallucinated:   
      
   >   
   > Ever heard someone try to speak under DMT? They can't, but   
   > they don't know that. Likewise they often can't register most of they're   
   > state; they can't tell if they're sitting, lying, eyes open or closed.   
   >   
      
   Alcohol in a high enough dose can make one unaware of one's   
   surroundings. That doesn't make one psychotic while on it.   
      
   >>> as   
   >>> evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech or   
   >>> disorganised and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the   
   >>> part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour,   
   >>   
   >> So psychosis is *behavioural*. Does everyone who does DMT *act*   
   >> psychotically??   
   >   
   > Well if you consider hallucination/delusions behaviour.   
   >   
      
   Hallucinations and delusions are not actions. Psychosis is a disorder   
   where one acts in irrational and counterproductive ways as a result of   
   one's delusions. Being absorbed in a daydream or trance state is not   
   psychotic behaviour.   
      
   >> What if one doesn't experience "gross impairment in reality testing"   
   >> and resulting psychotic behaviour that you seem to think everyone   
   >> would experience on DMT. Are shamans doing ayahuasca rituals simply   
   >> under a "drug induced psychosis"??   
   >   
   > Shamans think they are talking to spirits, traversing time and becoming   
   > animals. That sounds preety psychotic to me.   
      
   Christians have relationships with some dead guy from 2000 years ago   
   named Jesus Christ. You can argue that that is psychotic, but its just   
   your prejudice.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)