Yeah, I’ve taken mushrooms, and my memories of being a young child are in retrospect very psychedelic, minus the visuals. (I imagine visuals <i>are</i> present at very young ages, say 0–1 years, before you learn how to fully separate your senses.) You take things at face value, it’s easy to lose context and permanence, you draw connections between things, and you feel insightful.<p>For example, I remember being about 3 years old, and realising that other people couldn’t hear my thoughts, and that I couldn’t hear theirs—it was mind-blowing. Of course, you tend to come to slightly more complex realisations while taking psychedelics as an adult, and therein lies the value: it’s a kind of renewal of your personality.