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adds something to the exogenous perceived reality while in an illusion your memory wrongly identifies
an exogenous pattern.
Illusions are fundamental in order to understand the oneiric and schizophrenic states of consciousness.
The only well-known illusiogens have, until now, been the psychotropic cannabinoids. However NMDA
receptors antagonists are clearly also illusiogenic and even much more illusiogenic than cannabinoids
because they kick the normal waking state of consciousness into a strong state of illusions. Salvinorin, a
diterpene hallucinogenic molecule from Salvia divinorum, may be also illusiogenic but I have not tested
this molecule yet. Cannabinoids have a lot of properties different from the hallucinogens. For instance,
they disrupt the speed of attenuation. This speed is decreased under cannabinoids and this phenomenon
gives rise to the "time dilation" observed under these drugs. Under cannabinoids small sequences of time
perception are continuously reiterated and superimposed on ongoing perception in real time.
Time perception is strongly modulated by serotonin. For instance, the specific serotonin re-uptake
blockers, such as fluvoxamine or zimelidine, suppress the perception of time as thoughts are decreased in
consciousness. The number of spontaneous thoughts per unit of time is essential in our subjective
perception of time flow. When we have few thoughts per unit of time, then time flow seems slowed. On
the contrary, when we have a lot of thoughts per unit of time, then time flow seems augmented. So
cannabinoids and serotonin reuptake blockers act on opposite direction as far as time perception is
concerned. Psilocine is also extremely interesting because it seems to delocalise consciousness. With
psilocine, for instance, you can,simultaneously focus your attention on different things going on and
follow each of these things individually! To understand this phenomenon we should again go back to the
basics of memory organisation: the MHVs.
Endoreality is like a coral!
In exoreality we all express only one person: ourself. In endoreality, however, we share a common
imaginary space-time with other people who are stored representations of what we know about them. In
fact these stored representations of others are in complete adequation with those others as perceived while
awake. If I meet a friend in endoreality this friend is, in fact, totally similar to his image in exoreality, as
long as I do not interfere with his behaviours... So our reality is only made of representations. Because of
this fact, exoreality can be considered as oneiric-like in the same way as endoreality can be considered as
exoreal-like.So exoreality and endoreality are a bit like two mirrors which constantly reflect upon one
another. If you cut this mutual link, you are not studying reality anymore but only a fragment of reality...
This is the reason why all people disconnected from their endorealities are, in fact, situated in one
fragment of reality, not reality in its entirety. So, people studying consciousness while not being
conscious of their own endoreality are in error. They are busy with dream-like preoccupations, not
reality...
Our memory is so quite similar to a coral where myriads of polyps inhabit the same domain. Each
endoreal person, including yourself, can be compared to a polyp inhabiting this space: memory. So in our
endoreality many people live together in a same imaginary (virtual) space-time. But to appear in this
space-time the memory zones containing those people have, of course, to become metabolically active.
Normally, we are "ourselves", during waking times, because only those memory zones responsible for the
generation or our self are active. If other memory zones become active then we obtain the phenomenon of
"multiple" personalities! When we dream a very small percentage of our memory is highly metabolically
active. If everything was active, then dreaming would not mirror exoreality but be a space of total
confusion! This is what seems to happen in the mind of those people who have experienced an ineffable
mystic experience where their consciousness, apparently, radiates in many homologuous patterns
simultaneously, giving to the mystic this feeling that he can comprehend "everything" at the same time.
The discovery that memory is like a coral is a great thing because you discover that, in fact, you are never
"alone"! Loneliness is only an illusion because of your inability to contact those other people stored in
the coral of your memory... When you can establish a contact with those people, then it can solve a lot of
problems you encounter in exoreality like, for instance, the exoreal loss of loved ones. If a loved person
dies in exoreality he, first of all, dies for himself but continues to live in all endorealities of those people
who stored his informational representation... Remember that our realities are made of only
representations akin to oneiric informational objects. So, basically, they are not real(!) because a
representation can never accurately reproduce the objective object. The distortion between the
reprsentation and its object is so great that any representation can be then considered as oneiric-like,
oneiric-mimetic.
If I am in love, for instance, in exoreality with Hiroé (my exoreal Japanese loved one) I am, in fact, in
love only with a representation of Hiroé which is not at all the complete objective Hiroe... I am then in
love with a complex 3D image similar to a complex 3D image of a dream... My Hiroé in exoreality and
endoreality are identical for me, so meeting Hiroé in exoreality or endoreality is not so much different (as
long as I do not interfere with her oneiric will)!
The serotoninergic consciousness and time perception
The perception of time is highly dependent on serotonine. High serotoninergic activity (not enhancing
dopamine function or general metabolism) leads to a decrease of perception of time. Time perception can
even disappear to be replaced by a feeling of "eternal present". This is due to the fact that serotonine
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