Consciousness & Medicine
Cambridge Scientist Proposes DMT Entities May Be Real Intelligence Operating at Reality's Ground Level
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The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
"When you take DMT, your brain starts constructing these entirely alien worlds that are, that are far more complex, far more intricate, far more coherent, and far more real feeling than the normal waking world. It's not like dream, you know. The brain is using those models that it knows to construct a world in the absence of sensory inputs. Which is what dreaming is. So that kind of makes sense. So why then not DMT? Not DMT. Your brain starts constructing these worlds that it shouldn't know how to build."
Dr. Gallimore argued DMT entities cannot be explained as hallucination because human brains construct dream content from known cultural models, yet DMT consistently produces hyperdimensional alien beings and environments that exceed human cognitive architecture. Working with consciousness theorist Donald Hoffman, he developed a mathematical model suggesting DMT allows perception of conscious agents normally imperceptible at our level of reality.
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