Eli HornSat, Sep 5, 2009 Interesting subject. My initial thoughts are that perhaps it has to do with taking that certain process of thought to the extreme. I would imagine that somebody for whom analytical thinking is a 'career' could easily fall into habitual over-analyzing.
I wonder if something like regular meditation or therapeutic psychedelic use could be enough to give the mind a break and give balance to the analytic 'side-effects'. Perhaps the state one enters during analytical thought should be referred to as something other than depression, while the over-exposure to such a state could be what we generally apply the term to.
This brings to mind a personal experience which I had during an LSA (from Hawaiian Baby Woodrose) experience. It was one of the very few bad trips that I have had on psychedelics (despite having taken that same dose numerous times), and the only way I can describe it is as 'analytic ADHD' where I lay in bed as my mind just took every thought in my head and broke it down into smaller and smaller thoughts at a frightening speed. I more or less lost control of my mind for two hours (which needless to say was absolutely no fun). On coming back to 'reality' my first thoughts were that this was a warning from my mind that I should be exercising more control over my thoughts if I really want to achieve another level of holotropic state through psychedelics.
Interesting subject. My initial thoughts are that perhaps it has to do with taking that certain process of thought to the extreme. I would imagine that somebody for whom analytical thinking is a 'career' could easily fall into habitual over-analyzing.
I wonder if something like regular meditation or therapeutic psychedelic use could be enough to give the mind a break and give balance to the analytic 'side-effects'. Perhaps the state one enters during analytical thought should be referred to as something other than depression, while the over-exposure to such a state could be what we generally apply the term to.
This brings to mind a personal experience which I had during an LSA (from Hawaiian Baby Woodrose) experience. It was one of the very few bad trips that I have had on psychedelics (despite having taken that same dose numerous times), and the only way I can describe it is as 'analytic ADHD' where I lay in bed as my mind just took every thought in my head and broke it down into smaller and smaller thoughts at a frightening speed. I more or less lost control of my mind for two hours (which needless to say was absolutely no fun). On coming back to 'reality' my first thoughts were that this was a warning from my mind that I should be exercising more control over my thoughts if I really want to achieve another level of holotropic state through psychedelics.