The data of reality is consistent. How that data is interpreted by the brain may not be. Like the color red might not look the same to you as it does to me despite it being the same wavelength for both of us. We'll never know since it's impossible to describe a color and we can't see the world with the other's brain.

to say that reality is subjective or something, as if a blood clot in my leg that I'm just not aware of can't REALLY kill me.

It's not that reality isn't subjective it's that acting as if it is subjective isn't useful for our everyday experience. So we act as if it is objective. But acting as if reality is objective so you can live your life does not mean reality is objective, and personally, I think being absolutely certain that it is objective leads to shit like "Jesus loves you and died for your sins" - not to great science.

There is a uniform and self-consistent reality

The great value of science is to give us greater access to that reality

I'm really not trying to be shitty or anything about this, but science is increasingly showing us something considerably more complicated than that. Science absolutely gives us greater understanding of classical reality which is useful to us because airplanes fly. However, like it or not, science also is telling us that reality is a strange miasma of superpositions and that we actively participate in the creation of reality by simply existing/observing. At the very least, your outlook that it "is... uniform and self-consistent" does not appear to represent what is truly happening, it just represents what you think is happening, which is, ultimately, the point of the OPs meme. Everything you think you know is being filtered through your experience of it and whether this represents some objective reality or not, it represents it enough for you to live your life and feel like it is objective and consistent. But that isn't necessarily so. As wild as it sounds, there may be an infinite number of branching realities and you are walking down only one, and considering it as "objective reality." Nevermind that "reality" is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes - there is no way to determine that what you think you experience as "reality" is anything more than the qualia of a brain in a jar. This is Descartes 101.

Anyway, for anyone interested in this stuff, there's a great video from Sean Carrol about that outlines the uncomfortable unanswered questions in quantum physics and their implications about reality here.

Edit to add: on somewhat of a tangent, there's a fascinating book regarding your brain and reality I really love called Free Will

Woah there, where are you getting this idea that any of this has meaning from? Reality being coherent doesn't imply any kind of meaning. I can't even think of a theoretical way to determine if we're here for a reason (other than cause and effect) or if we're just here.

Exactly. This post actually reinforces why I don't want to alter my reality. That little window of interpretation is absolutely remarkable, it's all we have to anchor us to the outside world and I will never give that up. Not that I'm dead against occasional hallucinogenics, but our perception is an amazing thing and I feel bad for people who don't appreciate it.

As a great scientist once said:

"There's no scientific consensus that life is important" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

Dismissing: lacks object permanence.

Embracing: optimizes render load.

Have we considered I don't have ADHD, just triple A blockbuster brain engine??

god learned from steam frame

Im a big fan of doing small amounts, but sometimes it definitely gets you feeling like

I assume you mean ego death and not literal death

bad trips can be really really enlightening. i got the cliché “i am so tiny and the universe is so big” and it changed the way i think about things on a fundamental level.

Last time I did shrooms I saw geometric cats on everything.

Can’t wait for next season.

but please do do this to me

There's a valuable lesson here, and it's to avoid using comic strips to identify the mushrooms you should eat to trip.

He's got the mushroom in his hand as well as a pipe and a tab, I think they're just referring to psychs in general, but you're right, maybe they should've put more of a brown mushroom

Amanita muscaria is NOT psychedelic though, it's a deliriant. It can cause hallucinations, but it is not serotonin based, and psychedelics work on serotonin receptors.

Hm, that's odd. I just laughed a lot. 🤷

What in the world..

They literally are tho. lol. What a wild take

"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes."

Bill Hicks

not really 99%, more 99.9%

the only time when you as a person should never take psychadelics is when you have a pychoaffective disorder (or a history of it in your family) as it can trigger psychosis

other dangers come from heavy abuse of the substances, nothing you can do accidentally (psychadelics are non-addictive chemically speaking, but we humans can abuse anything so there's been cases of it) or taking the substances when you're depressed or anxious (can turn into a bad trip, cure you of those in a day, or just be a normal trip, it's a gamble)

99.9% of the time people who take psychadelics come back to normal after the effects wear off. even bad trips can be beneficial. the normal becomes broader, and many lessons are learnt, the useful hallucinations gain more meaning. i often compare psychadelic trips to having a mirror put in front of yourself and being forced to look at it for hours, now - do you like what you see?

Right, and a single marijuana cigarette will drive you to a murderous rape rampage of white women (or whatever else American bullshit propaganda you want to peddle today)...

I know that 99% of the time if someone takes hallucinogens they come back to reality just fine.

"I know that 99% of the time someone masturbates they don't go blind" - that's the level of nonsense you're spouting...

Just turn on your brain for a second. Psychedelics have been legal/decriminalised in some countries for years or decades. You're saying 1 in a 100 trips leaves you insane. Try to make sense of those two statements and support it with literally any shred of data from the last couple of decades.

All of the traditional psychedelics are significantly healthier for your brain than having a few drinks. One can literally regrow neurons, the other kills them.

Sometimes the trip even makes them feel better. But, is it really worth messing with your brain's delicate and super useful hallucination of the world around you?

And sometimes it can cure serious psychological conditions, autoimmune disease, allergies, and a host of other issues.

There's a very good reason an increasing number of places are legalising them for therapeutic use.

discovered how to use this power for evil

They already have. Is called "propaganda", or "the narrative".