Andrew Gallimore

I think, you know, as I said, the world you experience is always represented in the brain.

And that must apply, I think, in the DMT state.

If you're experiencing an altered world, there must be some representation of that within your brain.

cortical machinery within your cortex, within your brain.

I think that has to be the case.

However, I don't think and I think it's a great mystery is how the brain is actually capable of constructing that on its own in the same way that the brain constructs the dream world.

because the brain knows how to construct the waking world.

So it's simply using its stored models.

The same with hallucinations.

If you look at case reports of hallucinations in psychotics, you go through the psychiatric literature, the vast majority of hallucinations are of normal appearing, normal sized people, normal animals.

It's like waking dreams, if you like.

But with DMT, it's not.

The brain is somehow constructing a world that has no relationship whatsoever.

Nothing is taken from the normal waking world.

It's like the brain suddenly has switched to speaking a language that it never learned.

And I think that suggests that actually what's happening is you're not going somewhere, but you are in this more kind of fluid and dynamic state that psychedelics induce.

You're making the brain much more sensitive to being...

I think what you're seeing is what this intelligent agent, as I recall, as I tend to call it, I don't call it spirits or aliens or anything like that.

I think it's clear to me that there's some kind of intelligence and that intelligence is interacting with our brain in some way and showing us reality.

and what it wants us to see, if you like.