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Bridgeburner
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Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower
#8069024 - 02/25/08 04:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/chem-lab-shroom.html
Swiss scientists have tested psilocybin, the active ingredient of magic mushrooms, on twelve people and confirmed that it makes time feel slower.
At University Hospital Zürich, each of the volunteers was given a gel capsule with five milligrams of the drug or a lactose placebo. Later, they were asked to perform simple tasks, which would reveal their ability to tell time. When they had consumed the hallucinogen, each subject would take action too soon -- indicating that time was moving quite slowly from their point of view.
The duration reproduction task (DRT) followed the same design in both experiments. A 500 Hz tone was presented to subjects via headphones for a defined duration s (presentation phase); after a constant interval of silence, w = 2 s, the same tone was presented again and the subjects had to switch off the tone by pressing a key when the duration of the second tone was subjectively equal to that of the first tone.
In a report to the journal Neuroscience Letters, which became available on Feb. 9, Jiri Wackermann and her collaborators explained that the hallucinogen acts on proteins called serotonin receptors, but how it affects our perception of time is still not fully understood.
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Humble lurker
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8069232 - 02/25/08 05:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wouldn't say its noticeable.
Could just be the fact people pay more attention to how they are feeling under the influence of a drug. As opposed to the monotonous day dreaming of everyday life.
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FurrowedBrow
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: Humble lurker]
#8069509 - 02/25/08 06:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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lol, thank you scientists!
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ultimo101
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#8069630 - 02/25/08 06:46 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This just in! Smoking weed makes your high!
Breaking news! Mushrooms have been doing this for centuries XD
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christus
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: ultimo101]
#8069699 - 02/25/08 07:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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That's not a very big sample group. I'd say this is a guess at best.
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: christus]
#8069976 - 02/25/08 08:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i would like to see an analysis on why the wall can breathe
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nk pakelika
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: rodfarva]
#8070126 - 02/25/08 08:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Farva!
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Groomies
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: rodfarva]
#8070132 - 02/25/08 08:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I want some of that gel caps. i wonder how did they make that?
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nk pakelika
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: Groomies]
#8070795 - 02/25/08 11:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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probably synthesized it and suspended it an an ethanol solution encapsulated in a gel cap.
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: nk pakelika]
#8070995 - 02/26/08 12:30 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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can they find out how i talked to god??
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Re: Chem Lab: Shrooms Make Time Feel Slower [Re: SunshineDaydream]
#8071166 - 02/26/08 01:35 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
SunshineDaydream said: can they find out how i talked to god??
dont give them any ideas, then they would try to find god and use her.
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