Tim Ferriss

So it's like, all right, all of it meant, like,

I want to know what the hell is going on in here, if that is even possible.

How do you even study it?

It's like three pounds of fat sitting in this skull.

What do you even do to study that?

So, I mean, all of those things, I would say, catalyzed it then.

went pretty hard in the paint with all of that for a while.

And then, since I had no, certainly no training, my friends and I had no training in how to structure psychedelic experiences, and I had a terrifying experience of coming out of a mushroom psychedelic experience in the middle of the night because my asshole friends, it was the three of us,

had wandered off on some like hike and i was left alone in a house and i started looping because i was on a bear i'm sure we weren't even measuring doses at the time but i'm sure it was in retrospect i would say it's probably like six to eight grams of dried philosophy mushrooms which is a lot for people who don't know and so i was looping looping looping wandered over to my parents house my and my friends like you definitely didn't go over there and then the next day my mom's like big night huh and i was like what do you mean

So that was already a problem, right?

I'm tripping my balls off sitting on, like, the kitchen floor with my parents.

Like, that's bad enough.

But when I was walking back to this other house where I was staying with my friends, I came out of my trip in pitch blackness, walking in the middle of the road, and almost got hit by an oncoming car.

Like, the headlights coming at me is what woke me up, and then I, like, jumped out of the way.

And I was like, okay.

We're done."

And I stopped.

And the only reason I got back into it, the interest always persisted.

And the other things, the lucid dreaming, the neuroscience, the interest, all of that continued.

But I was like, psychedelics, that's off piste.