Interesting theory Misteltoe Mix.
As for my personal views, I try to stay as open as I can about it all and not falling into any one category. I try not to believe in any of the theories, though I suspect that something similar to what Misteltoe Minx explained will be the main responsible agent for creating the visions and experiences we have.
This to me is not degrading to the experience. It simply makes me marvel more at how impossibly interesting our very own minds are.
On the other hand we still don't understand consciousness fully and still are not certain it is actually a local phenomenon or if it is a kind of transmission received by the brain or if it's something entirely different. From my experiences I would like to believe that consciousness is prevalent in everything, that there is some kind of sentience that permeates the very fabric of the universe - time and space, energy... - But I really don't know.
What I do know is that I've learned truths during trips that seemed absolute and unshakeable, only later to find out that they were nothing but delusion. So even my most cherrished experiences and truths about the outside universe I look at sceptically now and wait patiently for evidence or contradiction. And while I wait I try to grow from these experiences and use the new found possibilities to widen my horizons without limiting myself to one strict belief or one form of thinking.
As for my personal views, I try to stay as open as I can about it all and not falling into any one category. I try not to believe in any of the theories, though I suspect that something similar to what Misteltoe Minx explained will be the main responsible agent for creating the visions and experiences we have.
This to me is not degrading to the experience. It simply makes me marvel more at how impossibly interesting our very own minds are.
On the other hand we still don't understand consciousness fully and still are not certain it is actually a local phenomenon or if it is a kind of transmission received by the brain or if it's something entirely different. From my experiences I would like to believe that consciousness is prevalent in everything, that there is some kind of sentience that permeates the very fabric of the universe - time and space, energy... - But I really don't know.
What I do know is that I've learned truths during trips that seemed absolute and unshakeable, only later to find out that they were nothing but delusion. So even my most cherrished experiences and truths about the outside universe I look at sceptically now and wait patiently for evidence or contradiction. And while I wait I try to grow from these experiences and use the new found possibilities to widen my horizons without limiting myself to one strict belief or one form of thinking.
Pretty convincing when I'm dreaming though. 