Tim Ferriss

At the very end of high school, I had my first experiences with psychedelics.

with mushrooms first and LSD.

And after that, I was like, oh... Okay.

I don't understand how my experience of time can be cut up into slices and rearranged in the way that I just experienced it last night.

That is... That is... It doesn't really fit with my...

consensus experience of this reality.

So what does that mean?

I have no idea.

But I'm interested in exploring what that might mean.

So when I went to Princeton, I went to Princeton for a couple of reasons, where I applied to Princeton Early Action, which is like an exploding offer.

In retrospect, I think I would have been much happier somewhere else.

Princeton was a very difficult, stiff environment for me.

But I went there because they had one of the best East Asian studies departments in the world.

Really phenomenal.

Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.

They had a very, very strong psychology and neuroscience program.

Danny Kahneman was there.

There was a guy named Barry Jacobs who had done a bunch of research with LSD and did a lot of research also on the serotonergic system involving cats and stuff because cats kind of sleep all the time.

I really wanted to work in his lab.

And then thirdly, there was something at the time, I was very sad that it ended up getting wound down maybe a year after I got there, but there was something at Princeton called the PEAR Lab, P-E-A-R, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, where I think, I could be getting some of the details wrong, but I'm pretty sure, at one point they had military funding,