As someone whose gotten there on accident before, I can tell you that it's eerily similar to nitrous and a giant hit of DMT. You get hit with this bodily wave of dissociation from not breathing and the tryptamine euphoria. You get what feels like hours to come to terms with the fact that you're dying. I'd say this takes away from existential dread. Something in this universe was kind enough to give us a transition between life and death, a time where we can settle our entire lives in our heads before we die.

Neuroscientists have taken us all for FOOLS for too long and this is the last fucking straw...

Hundreds of thousands of dollars put towards 'residencies' and 'doctorates' every year. Countless young adults conned into believing that they too can 'unlock' the 'mysteries' of the brain if only they pay Mr. John Hopkins or Duke $450,000 over the course of the next 18 years!

simpering neuroscientists: We've just published a new paper detailing laminar organization of neocortical activities during systemic anoxia! It changes EVERYTHING!

normal ''uneducated'' people: and what does that mean exactly?

: It means that...when you're dying because you're having a stroke or not breathing or bleeding out or...your brain cells eventually die too...

???????????????? GET REAL!

100 updoots and I will make this my Phd thesis once I get in next year

I just want to say I posted this shortly before getting high and watching Barbie (I’ve never seen it)

Barbie seems to be the only one thinking about death at this point in the movie which is a funny coincidence. I love the chaotic and random nature of the universe tbh

This is such a wonderful research to read, but I'm too bad in biochemistry to fully emerge in the joy from this wonderful finding.