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New comment by tsol in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

tsol — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:30:35 +0000

Depends on how is prepared. If you heat it and prep it the right away it makes a fantastic sleep med. If you don't prep it right you get delirious and people can hurt themselves. You also can't take too much or that can also become delerious. I think that's why it never caught on even though it's far more effective than any other over the counter sleep inducing herb or supplement(in my experience)

New comment by tsol in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

tsol — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:22:33 +0000

Not all hallucinations are pleasant. Magic mushrooms are known to be pleasurable for many people, but I've heard these mushrooms are not very fun and can last days. Given these effects have been known for a long time there could be a good reason it never caught on

New comment by tsol in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

tsol — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:14:34 +0000

If it's been brought to their attention before and they haven't done anything, then it effectively is intentional.

New comment by tsol in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tsol — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:18:18 +0000

If you find a good sleep med it can be life changing. I found a natural supplement called muscimol that's a silver bullet for me. Gets me to sleep in 20 minutes every time, gives me great sleep, and isn't habit forming. It can be hard to find because people like to try to take huge doses to trip, even though it's an awful delirious experience(never tried it but read stories).

At low doses though it works by mimicking GABA in the brain, so it actually increases REM sleep time. A lot of sedatives will get you to sleep but give you worse sleep because it's working in a very unnatural way. It totally eliminates the issue of taking a long time to fall asleep.

Now you still have to be able to get yourself to bed in the first place, but that's half the battle already won. My life is so much better using it as I've always had a hard time falling asleep. Hopefully we'll have similar medication available to everyone soon as I really think it can solve a lot of suffering people experience

New comment by tsol in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

tsol — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:28:43 +0000

Antibiotics are pretty much a free lunch but they exist. Completely stops deadly disease without causing any long term damage. They exist it's just rare

New comment by tsol in "Decline in IQ linked to frequent or dependent use of cannabis use in youth"

tsol — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:11:56 +0000

I'm curious what kind of effect alcohol has on IQ. Alcohol is very well established to be pretty bad for brain health even if you don't always feel it.

New comment by tsol in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

tsol — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:04:35 +0000

Very cool that you got in just through your interests. It's anyways cool to see stories where that works out! Good to know it's possible to get that kind of job

New comment by tsol in "A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

tsol — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:42:52 +0000

How do get to do that? As in what did you study to get the prerequisite knowledge, and how did you find this particular job? When I see interesting jobs I'm anyways curious what path lead there

New comment by tsol in "Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines"

tsol — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:10:14 +0000

In that case America's founding would be rooted in terrorism. Against the British monarchy, of course.

New comment by tsol in "How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy"

tsol — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:07:24 +0000

Very cool. I have a friend with cerebral palsy and he has very little movement in his hands. I'd love to connect him with these kinds of devices but he has an intellectual disability that makes it especially tough. I wish there was an easy affordable way to get someone who can give advice to a guy like him. He's learned to use an iPhone because SIRI does a lot of things for him, but computers are difficult for him. Which is very limiting

New comment by tsol in "Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts"

tsol — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:43:59 +0000

Why would that be the only way to get porn that they don't crack down on?

New comment by tsol in "Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It"

tsol — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:56:58 +0000

This is a cool idea, I like it.

New comment by tsol in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

tsol — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Not sure why this was down voted but there's truth to this.

I quit an SNRI antidepressant twelve years ago and for ten years I had horrible migraines, inability to form sentences, constant anxiety, low motivation, and other symptoms. Doctors just diagnosed it as depression and me having problems.

I knew something was wrong and I suspected it had to do with withdrawal from my old antidepressant. I read online and found others saying something similar. Gemini was able to help me confirm with and provide resources from specialists about this because the average psychiatrist knows nothing about this.

Finally I had a name for my issue-- protracted SNRI withdrawal syndrome. Trying to get off the medication too quick put me into some kind of continuous withdrawal. After confirming this I got back on the old medication and slowly reduced the dose this time.. I feel better than I have in 10 years.

Doctors still don't understand it and sometimes when I mention it to one(I have a few in my family)they just say "that's not supposed to happen". Never put your health solely in another person's hands. Utilize every resource available to you, even the most educated doctor in the world cannot know all there is to know about their field

New comment by tsol in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

tsol — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:58:12 +0000

I don't see anyone else's messages. Don't know if they turned them off at this point. This is why we can't have nice things

New comment by tsol in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

tsol — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:38:13 +0000

Last I heard the US govt is taking equity in some private industry too.

New comment by tsol in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

tsol — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:13:00 +0000

Had the same issue. With reta I have more energy than normal and workout even more than usual. I get great workouts despite eating around 1400 calories a day. I don't wanna act like it's without flaws but I gotta say it does it's job very well

New comment by tsol in "People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia"

tsol — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:10:49 +0000

Probably has more to do with how they regard hallucinations. In some cultures they're regarded as possibly mystical and a good thing, in other cultures they're regarded as strictly a sign of a malfunctioning brain which is of course bad. Even a corpse can create different feelings based on context and beliefs-- ie a corpse at a funeral is a somber memorial, a corpse lying in the street is sad and worrying.

New comment by tsol in "Amazon says restoring damaged Middle East cloud operations to take months"

tsol — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:58:40 +0000

The United States leadership is full of religious fanatics saying this war is for Christ, that God stands with their army, those that bless israel will be blessed, etc in the context of political speeches. If the Iranian regime has killed 100 Americans in 47 years, it's shocking how small that is compared to the 1000+ reported civilian deaths that the USA caused by attacking civilian infrastructure and even schools and hospitals. The abusive relationship here is the one American people have with the political class that benefits from these forever wars.

New comment by tsol in "Grok 4.3"

tsol — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:12:13 +0000

VW was established by the nazis and was so excited at the conflict in Gaza they converted a factory into a missile factory recently to help the side that killed more journalists than in any other recorded conflict.

New comment by tsol in "Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers"

tsol — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:11:05 +0000

I question how accurately using a survey alone really answers this question. Some people would never admit(or even think) they're against free speech--at least until they see speech they deem too dangerous to be allowed. We have seen this on college campuses lately. We've seen this during the 'War on Terror'. It's the same result even if their initial beliefs are different.