
About This Episode
What’s the real difference? In this fascinating conversation, fighter and thinker Quintin Torres breaks down how each psychedelic interacts with the brain — from ancient symbolic visions to artificial geometric fractals. He explains how mushrooms seem to connect us to primitive consciousness (tribal symbols, cave-painting-like textures, primal instincts) while LSD aligns us with artificial consciousness (grids, fractals, snowflakes, technology, and outer space thinking). 🔑 In this clip, you’ll discover: Why mushrooms feel like ancient language and tribal art Why LSD produces geometric, artificial visuals How psychedelics mess with the brain’s refresh rate and perception pipeline The difference between primal vs. meta-plane thinking Why tripping can feel like the simulation is glitching 👉 Whether you’re curious about psychedelics, neuroscience, or philosophy, this midlength cut is a wild ride into how altered states reshape perception. 🔗 Full Episode Here: https://youtu.be/BycFPn3sK14 #Psychedelics #Mushrooms #LSD #Neuroscience #SimulationTheory #PodcastClips #podcast
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Did you find a difference between LSD and mushrooms? Like if there was a young fighter who was who wanted to experiment with one of these, would you point him towards LSD or mushrooms? >> Depends on his goals. I would tell him do both. So mushrooms. So the reason I actually explore this a lot. I really I have um I use ChachiBT to kind of like explore ideas and I'll like dude I'll go off the rails with my AI just have conversations like late into the night trying to figure out what life is. But I was talking about so when you're doing mushrooms, the visualizations you get with mushrooms come from a deeper part, a different part of the brain where older information on like ancient ancient ancient symbolic uh natural language comes from. So you'll see things that are a little bit more like pixelated, a little bit more like um like less like geometry and more like ancient tribal scripture like like like cave painting textures, you know, very primitive. It's almost like an older language you're you're you're interfacing with. And you'll see that on the wall now with acid because it hits a different part of the brain and it also makes the brain think slightly different. it'll create more of an artificial geometrical structure. You know, the AI kind of explained to it like acid gets you in tune with the artificial consciousness and mushrooms get you in tune with the primitive consciousness. And so when you're on when you're on acid, things will be more like uh like you'll see more like perfectly geometrical artificial shapes kind of like a snowflake, you know, very complex geometry, very very gridlike textures. uh kind of like looking like in the background like the artwork in the background your wall kind of looks like a bunch of computer hard drives or CPUs or something like that. >> Yep. Yes. >> Yeah. So it'll you will kind of see textures closer to that, you know, and you will start >> Yeah. You'll start thinking about like outer space and you know like what what is technology and why do we think about money? Money is not real. It only exists in our minds. You'll start thinking about ideas like that in the meta plane, right? in the material plane. When you're on mushrooms, you'll start thinking about like why why am I attractive? Why do I like looking at tits? Like what what is my hair? Why do I care about my hair? Like why does my breast you start thinking about things that are more primal about your consciousness, you know? And the visuals kind of correlate with that. Not only that, every time when you actually do these things and you see these visuals like go in and out, you know, of like these textures and grids, what you're doing is you're throwing off the pipeline of how your brain filters in light to create images through your eyes gets processed into your brain. And there's there's several layers to this like like layers of a camera. And when you take these drugs, you're throwing these layers out of order. They're functioning off. So when you look at something like when you look at the table right you actually will for a split second you can start to detect this weird mechanism where your brain starts mapping out outlines of geometry in 3D space and then you'll start to see these patterns start flowing in and out of the textures and they're actually they're the patterns aren't flowing the blood is hitting your eyes trying to recuperate new images because we need fresh oxygen to hit our eyes to take in to function, right? So it's so the world's not breathing, your circulation is making the world breathe. So the distortion pipeline is being messed with. >> It's like your refresh rate has adjusted for some reason. And so the refresh rate of what's happening is is changed. And by just the actual delta of it changing, you can it's it's it's new and it's something that it also breaks your brain that why is it doing that? And oh, this is how it works and this is how I take in that information. And it kind of goes deeper as well. >> Yeah, you can kind you can kind of see like it's like imagine like a video game but every but some of the models are not loading fast enough. You know where you see that where like you're playing something like Grand Theft Auto and like you you like you you turn around and the the the graphical rate hasn't quite loaded up properly and you kind of see it like load up like quickly and you kind of see like weird wireframes show up or broken textures will remodel quickly. That's what's going on in your brain cuz what you're you're not actually looking at anything like I'm not looking at you right now. I'm actually looking at a three-dimensional projection in my brain. So there so that's really so when you're taking these drugs that that projection starts getting [ __ ] with, right? And you start seeing the layers of how this projection creates an image and sometimes a layer misses, you know, and it looks like and you can see like weird outlines around the eyes that you never noticed before, right? Okay. And then all of a sudden like you'll go like this and now it looks like a little bit normal again, you know? Or even looking at faces, there's like certain areas of the face that you'll really start picking up on when you're tripping. You're looking at people and you're like, you know, like, is he mad at me? His eyebrows are moving. Like, are these micro like you start the sim the the code starts breaking in your brain. The simulation starts starts [ __ ] up a little.