The findings are completely novel, so their "validity needs to be further tested," wrote Carhart-Harris. As Carhart-Harris wrote in an article for The Conversation, this "may explain why psychedelics have been considered useful facilitators of certain forms of psychotherapy." This intriguing combination appears to allow users to consider their emotions in a different, broader, and often more positive light.
But consider this: psilocybin didn’t just unlock emotion - it also decreased activity in parts of the brain that are associated with our sense of self, or our ego. They also are a rich source of B vitamins, potassium, copper, selenium, and folate. They have a high protein and fiber content. Given that people who take psychedelics often describe their experiences as dreamlike (mushrooms don’t typically lead to the pleasant and rewarding "highs" that one might expect from other drugs), these findings might not seem surprising to some. Pink oyster mushrooms share a similar nutrient profile as oyster mushrooms. "When you look at a brain during dream sleep, you see the same hyperactive emotion centers." "It’s like someone’s turned up the volume there, in these regions that are considered part of an emotional system in the brain," Robin Carhart-Harris, a neuropharmacologist at Imperial College London, told The Washington Post. According to the researchers, these effects are akin to what we experience when we dream. It also increased brain function in regions that are associated with emotion and memory. This allowed them to determine that psilocybin increased the volume of activity in regions of the brain that are usually activated when we dream, during sleep. Then, using brain imaging technology, the researchers looked at the areas of the brain that were activated in both groups. Another group, the control, didn’t receive the drug. In the experiment, researchers injected a dose of psilocybin - the chemical that gives "shrooms" their kick - into a group of 15 participants, reports The Washington Post. These effects are akin to what we experience when we dream Yet, that’s what one group of researchers appear to have achieved in a study published today in Human Brain Mapping. It’s one thing to say that psychedelic mushrooms "open your mind," but it’s another entirely to demonstrate its dream-like effects in a scientific study.
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