lucious
Rising Star
wasnt sure where to post this. would surely like input from others. The subjects, we will call them monkeyA and monkeyB, often play party poker together on the internet. This gives us the use of a random, a card from a shuffled deck, that has symbolic meaning to the subjects. The subjects and their respective sitters are to be seated in separate rooms and self administer a pipe loaded with ~100mg of substance and smoke until they feel they will reach the midlevel experience. Prior to administration the researcher will show the subjects a random card from a shuffled deck and will tell them to think about their card and the card the other person might be holding. The researcher will record the cards shown to each subject. The sitters will be for the most part inert helping only with the coordination of the simultaneous entry and care of the subjects. After showing the respective subjects their cards, the researcher will move to the hall and announce the start of the entry and retire to a separate room. At 15 minutes the researcher will attempted to conduct the interviews. ** The use of music is commonly wanted during the experience. If music is to be used the sitters will simultaneously begin the playing of preagreed upon music in both of the subjects rooms. Both subjects have used the substance on several occasions so are familiar with the general effects as well as smoking techniques. ~100mg sounds like a lot, it is not meant to all be smoked just leaving a little leeway for the experiment. The smoking implements are dedicated to the substance so nothing will be waisted. The researcher is still deciding on the questions to ask in the course of the interviews. They will probably begin with "How are you feeling?". Then move on to, "Are you ready to talk about what happened?". Then ending with "What card do you think the other subject was sending you?". The researcher, knowing the cards, must be very careful not to lead the subject. This is why the use of prewritten questions would probably be beneficial. More researchers would be better, separate researchers for each subject for the presentation of the card, then another set of researchers to conduct the interview. Perhaps the respective sitters should present and record the card then leave the respective rooms when the major effects of the substance wear off, not speaking to the researcher, who would conduct the interviews blind? Many things are missing, but we guess such is the world of 'clandestine research', if that is a term. As mentioned more researchers would help, but since this is a closed, secret project probably not applicable. Soundproof rooms would probably also be helpful as sometimes one can loose track of the volume of their voice while basking in the excitement. Any thoughts?