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If you ask some people, bad trips can go horribly wrong.

Also, being in that state, and seeing the world in such a distorted way, without even knowing you're in an altered must be horrifying.

One wouldn't have any reason to believe it isn't "real" or that it will ever end.




> One wouldn't have any reason to believe it isn't "real" or that it will ever end.

Why? Isn't it natural to question your perception when you see something unusual in such a degree?


The higher the dose the more you lose the ability to convince yourself “This isn’t real” or even care.


It would. Unless your very thought patterns are completely disrupted by a highly potent psychedelic you've been unknowingly dosed with.

Even then, what seems more reasonable? "I'm trapped, asleep, in a seemingly never ending nightmare" or "I, a random layman with nothing remarkable whatsoever, have been unknowingly dosed with some unknown substance by the CIA" ?




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