On the show, he talked about the idea that we really live in a Multiverse, where parallel realities, or universes, are created as a result of the choices we make or significant events playing out differently. Like, there is a universe where I didn't get fired from Starbucks, and as a result didn't work at Borders, and probably didn't become a journalist, and so on.
And DC and Marvel have been dealing with Multiverse storylines for how long now? Has this idea of an actual Multiverse been around for awhile, and I'm just hearing about it now? Or were comic book writers on to something before the scientists thought it was possible?
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so, i believe the theory was that it was a drug that allowed people to see into other planes of existence or something like that, correct?
bc why would a drug specifically cause people to hallucinate midgets and clowns? so the answer was that the things were really there but the drug allowed people to se them, correct?
but i was thinking about it... and it just seems like the drug must create a certain TYPE of hallucination, a similar TYPE of hallucination, and our brains always want to categorize things... so in their altered states, the brains just automtically categorize this type of hallucination into the premade categories that they are closest to (midgets and clowns)...
kind of like babies sometimes call anything round "ball." since they don't know what it is, they are fitting it into the most similar available category. so this is my theory for the drug. it creates hallucinations of things that don't exist and our brains don't have a name for it, so they get categorized a certain way. and they are similar enough hallucinations for everyone that they get categorized the same, or similar, ways.
Of course the answer could be the simplest solution which is that they made a drug that actually does make everyone hallucinate the same thing.
but if a drug acts on just the right part(s) of the brain, it doesn't seem so unbelievable that it might say, make you hallucinate human-like figures... and maybe there's some other aspect of it with say, colors... and the closest that the human brain (esp in that state) can come to categorizing that is "clowns." do you know what i mean? so it's still a more specific hallucination than other drugs, but maybe not as specific as it may seem at first.
What they saw wasn't what was classified as the weird part. IT was the fact that everyone claimed they saw the exact same thing which was the hard part because as I said, they had never created anything to make people hallucinate the same thing.
Man I have to go back and find more info on this study. Its killing me that I can't remember what it was called now.
I was actually just reading/listening to a book called blasphemy which is about what he's talking about doing in 2 months by creating dark matter. In the novel they were able to do it and then they heard the voice of God (or so they thought). Interesting book.