There are as many “explanations” for the efficacy of psilocybin as there are models of consciousness. The one I like is that the drug causes an increase in neuroplasticity and that allows your brain to reroute its network more easily. I find it does great for helping me decontextualize experiences and strip them of the heavy negative emotional baggage some experiences have.

I don’t know, I’ve heard it works well alongside therapy and having sessions to help integrate the experience. I usually just microdose and meditate with an intention a few timesin the week before a legit trip and let the drugs do their thing. Sometimes it’s unpleasant in the moment but I always start a timer when I dose so I have seen over the years that the unpleasant parts are only like 15 minutes to an hour of the 6ish hour experience. Those 15 minutes can feel like forever because it messes with one’s perception of time but even that gets less weird with practice.

They are powerful little guys though. I went to church after my most recent trip because it felt really right. That was odd since I’m not a practicing Christian anymore although I don’t hate religion by any means I’ve just never gotten a lot out of it.

I like my baseball team’s radio and TV announcers quite a bit (there sure are some bad mlb announcers though). I haven’t watched wrasslin’ in 20 or so years but definitely the announcers are a fun part.

I watch almost all sports with the volume off. I think a lot of podcasts are filmed now for YouTube but I never watch, only listen.

Read through this scroll a little to find your use case, it’s in there. I’m sorry if being suggested to read seems rude or uninviting or something but I really think for this it’d be faster for you to do so. These people’s articles have always helped me and I’ve been using Linux for 20 years. dd stands for data duplicator and I just had to look that up lol.

No guardrails but you have a second to reconsider when typing your password. The other day I used some gui util as sudo and deleted my /bin folder somehow. I would have noticed that in the cli.

I use a projector for my main entertainment display in a windowed room and when I find myself somewhere with a good large 4k screen I’m very aware of how much deeper the blacks are and how it’s just a bit sharper on the tv. I don’t mind trading the image quality for having it mounted up and out of the way though.

Gave lemmy for my lemmy answers. Thanks for posting

Icarus. Frequently take things a step too far to my own detriment.

I Always use dd for this kind of thing. Others have mentioned some other tools but I have never had any problems with it that I didn’t cause myself.