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Neuroscientist Claims DMT Brain Activity Shows Impossible Order Not Explained by Hallucination
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The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
"With DMT, something different seems to happen. You get this initial increase in randomness, but it's as if the brain suddenly collapses into this new order. So you go from the old order, the original order, which is the normal waking world model, into this more fluid and dynamic state. And then at the breakthrough, it's like the brain has collapsed into this entirely new order, which is this entirely new, novel, entirely alien world."
Dr. Andrew Gallimore described brain scanning studies showing DMT produces a unique neural signature unlike other psychedelics. Where psilocybin and LSD increase brain entropy and randomness, DMT shows an initial spike followed by collapse into a highly organized new state representing coherent alien worlds. He argues this pattern contradicts the hallucination model because the brain constructs complex worlds it never learned to build.
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