Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
There is some evidence that seems to indicate that the humans have an evolved "built in" reaction to snake/snake like patterns:<p><a href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/Ohman.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/Ohman.c...</a><p><i>As reptiles, snakes may have signified deadly threats in the environment of early mammals. We review findings suggesting that snakes remain special stimuli for humans. Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other primates. Humans and monkeys learn snake fear more easily than fear of most other stimuli through direct or vicarious conditioning. Neither the elicitation nor the conditioning of snake fear in humans requires that snakes be consciously perceived; rather, both processes can occur with masked stimuli. Humans tend to perceive illusory correlations between snakes and aversive stimuli, and their attention is automatically captured by snakes in complex visual displays. Together, these and other findings delineate an evolved fear module in the brain. This module is selectively and automatically activated by once-threatening stimuli, is relatively encapsulated from cognition, and derives from specialized neural circuitry.</i><p>This makes sense, as humans have evolved along venomous snakes for presumably a very long time.<p>Is it possible that when drug users of a wide variety of backgrounds report similar hallucinations (here insects), it taps into similar mechanisms, activating neural pathways that deal with the recognition of insects?