Exactly. He got psychedelics all wrong. People don't see things that aren't there, They just urge communication between brain regions that normally wouldn't communicate that much. The effects, more times than not, are therapeutically beneficial.
Everytime I reach the point of heavy hallucinations on psilocybin I enter what can only be described as a trance like state, somewhere between awake and asleep. The trips seem to take place in a way that is hard to distinguish them from dreams
That's also completely dependent on tons of other factors. Environment, dosage, actual drug you are taking, mindset at the time of taking it, any predisposition towards a mental disorder...Tons of factors play into how a psychedelic is going to affect you, and I agree they can be beneficial and have been proven to be so, He is doing a "crash course'' specifically in psychology, and how the brain works. PsychedSubstance and YourMateTom are both pretty solid TH-camrs if you want a lot of info on psychedelics.
Psychedelics are not a synonym for Hallucinogens. Psychedelics are a class of Hallucinogens. There are Psychedelics, Dissociatives, and Deliriants. Psychedelics merely display mental processes in a new lens. Disassociatives make you hallucinate by bringing you out of touch with reality. Deliriants make you hallucinate by intoxicaticating and harming your perception of reality. It's very important to differentiate. Psychedelics are definitely the most innocent of the three. They don't cause mental illness. They just temporarily let the mind see things through a whole new set of eyes. Sometimes a change of perception can be very beneficial.
@Alexander Supertramp as somebody who's fine plenty of acid but also plenty of salvia (acid of course being a psychedelic and salvia being a dissociative) I agree with op. Acid makes the real world look weird, salvia makes you see a weird false world. I feel far more in touch with myself and my body on acid because it doesn't make me dissociate
I just need to point one thing out: Hallucinogens like LSD, magic mushrooms and peyote doesn't actually makes you see things that aren't there. They rather just distort the way you perceive sensory input to explain it that way. I felt as if I had a moral assignment to clear this up on behalf of all the users of psychedelics out there in this worlds of ours, and I am tired of the stigma that comes with misinformation.
For me at least i did not see things that were not there with my eyes open, but when I had them closed i was brought out of this world seeing magical creatures and speaking to them. I forgot that the world was even real at times. Definitely an interesting experience. It was a really big dose and it was my first time so it affected me very strongly
Also with mushrooms your body develops a instant tolerance to, so it's impossible to become addicted, this tolerance goes away over time. The Ld50 is huge as well, making it impossible to overdose, so yeah definitely not as harmful as a lot of stigma makes out.
but it is important to note people can get addicted to the hallucinations and the feeling of the 'trip'. I know this personally. My own mother pulled out of her teeth during a 'bad trip' because they had 'distorted' into aliens. The stigma that these drugs are harmful is correct. Yes, they can be used positively. But you never know how your body will respond (like all drugs). My mother took LSD because she wanted to escape reality which is a major reason why people start taking hallucinogens and she never wanted to leave the world LSD gave her. She ignored her family and friends and used all the money she had to get more drugs. So please, do not undermine the experiences of LSD or dismiss those who are cautious of it (and for good reason). Also, if you buy drugs illegally, you never truly know what is in there. For example, PMA and mepherdone can be sold as MDMA/ecstasy. Btw my Mum eventually died from taking LSD, not from an overdose but because of heart failure because each time you take the drug it puts pressure on your heart. So please don't say " it impossible to overdose, so yeah definitely not as harmful as a lot of stigma makes out", because yes it can be and it can kill. Its your body and you can do whatever you want with it but make sure you're living in reality as well.
Given sufficient quantities you can certainly perceive robust non existent things, though I have found they are largely mundane things. That being said, a quantity sufficient to cause proper hallucinations is very definitely “too much”
Psychedelics don't belong in a conversation about narcotics. Basically you people are all dumb. You need to be educated. You have dumb information in your brain. This needs to be corrected. Crash Course just added to your stupidity. Saying caterpillars under your skin is bs. Nobody does that. Basically psychedelics or entheogens are probably one of the most valuable tools nature has given us. And we've made them illegal and misinformed the entire world on them. Even academics will pedal this bs rhetoric. It's infuriating.
Steven Cavigliano You are right. You, a junkie, definitely know more about drugs than scientists and academics who spend their whole lives researching them.
N M this is what you should’ve said. “I’m a sheep who listens to whatever people with authority tell me and refuse to do actual research, and because I’m so stupid I insult other people who have actually done their own research”
@Javier I'm in New Zealand. I once read America's drug clarifications to my flatmates and we were extremely confused. Why on earth is weed more dangerous than METH?
Here’s some quick info about various psychedelics effects from a long time and current user (me): LSD and Shrooms will never make you see things that aren’t there. You will never hallucinate a dragon attacking you or centipedes on your skin. You will see colors more vibrantly, and you will see shifting patterns that might change depending on what your looking at. Some things can be scary because you’re perceiving them differently than you normally would. It’s not uncommon to look at someone’s face and see their features slowly distorting, which may be funny or disturbing depending on your mindset. You may also see visual trails, as in seeing your friend waving their hand would leave a visual trail like camera with long exposure. Now although you might not actually see something like a hideous beast ready to attack, you may believe there is a beast somewhere awaiting to harm you because your altered state of consciousness caused you to take visual and audio cues in a bad way. Say you’re with you’re friends and they make some mention about wolves and then you hear a rustling in the bushes, it must be wolves! But that all depends on your own personal fears and neuroses. DMT is similar in lower doses, but when the “breakthrough” point is achieved it’s kind of like being transported to a different dimension. Wonderful vibrant colors everywhere in shifting fractal patterns. Your body feels like it’s floating, or perhaps like you’re floating outside of your body. Now with every breakthrough point there is a perception of contact with an entity or entities that might seem like meeting a deity, spiritual force, or a kind of inter dimensional extraterrestrial. The tribes in Peru that drink the Ayahuasca brew call it “Mother Ayahuasca.” It’s never harmful or appears to have malicious intent, but always seems to communicate advice for your personal wellbeing. Perhaps in psychological terms it’s the consciousness meeting the subconscious in personified form. The only hallucinogen that will make you see things that actually are not there are deleriants. You could take some Datura flower extract, but 500mg of Benadryl will do the job just as well. You will actual see things like shadow people in your room, and the trip is often just not fun and not worth it. Hope this helped somebody and cleared up anyone’s confusion! Stay safe and don’t trust the DEA!
I really wish we legalize hallucinogens soon, so that we can study and experiment with them freely... They have an enormous ammount of potential in a variety of domains, and unlike what most think, there's more to it than "hallucinating that you're petting a dolphin". Many report intense mystical or spiritual experiences under them; They might hold into them a very important piece of the puzzle that we could be ignoring, and it's a bit silly that society is currently banning them.
Baires Moreno Well, most known hallucinogens; psylocybin mushrooms, cannabis, DMT, are completely safe. The LD50 (the lethal dose) is ridiculously high for all of those, it'd be physically impossible to overdose. So considering that substances that kill thousands of people every year (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine) are not only legal, but sold at every corner, why shouldn't we legalize for public use those that never killed anyone, and have tremendous mental and physical benefits if used properly? Of course they can be misused. You can have 10 grams of mushrooms in a dirty apartment alone, and freak out for a while; Or you can have 5 grams out in nature with someone you love and come back optimistic and calm for weeks. You can put salt on your fries and enjoy them; or you can sit with half a pound of salt and a spoon, eat it all, and die.
Misuse is the reason why they are illegal, unlike alcohol and caffeine, they are highly addictive which usually leads to more chances of misuse. There is always a chance of overdose, when too much is taken at a time and the body can't process such a big amount. Ultimately, caffeine, tobacco and alcohol don't have as much of a big impact socially speaking when compared to hallucinogens.
Baires Moreno I feel the need to correct you - alcohol and caffeine *are* addictive as well. In severe alcoholism, the withdrawal symptoms can actually kill you. That sure scared me in school when I first learned about it.
I've pretty much just started watching these for fun at this point and the pursuit of knowledge. they are so well animated and narrated I cant get enough and I never get bored. I think the best way to convey info now is through audible and visual stimulation
I feel like the one thing these crash courses lessons have taught me is that Freud was an utterly redonkulous dude permanently living on cloud nine. I wonder if he assessed his own oral fixation to cigars as his inner child mourning the loss of his mother not returning his sexual feelings. I mean, this dude was wack.
You may think you know all about hypnosis from the movies. Zoolander, The Manchurian Candidate, etc... but there's a whole lot more going on. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, ***** tells us about some of the many altered states of consciousness, including hypnosis. Altered States - Crash Course Psychology #10
CrashCourse and *****, did you know that the original recipe for Coca-Cola actually contained tiny bits of cocaine? That also explains the first part of the name "Coca", meaning cocaine, and it's nickname which we still call it today: "coke". After they looked into it and a new alternative was found, which is caffeine, they permanently changed the recipe to make Coca-Cola with caffeine instead of cocaine.
I feel like there's a huge misconception about what hallucinogens do. The vast majority of psychedelics aren't going to cause the type of hallucinations most people think of when taken at a normal dose (e.g. petting a baby dolphin, having centipedes crawling under your skin, etc.) Classical psychedelics such as LSD, or psilocybin containing mushrooms generally just alter your perception of the things that are already around you, causing light to be brighter, colours to be more vivid, and an effect that's referred to as "breathing" wherein still objects appear to move and breath, almost like they're alive. This isn't to say that classical psychedelics CAN'T cause more vivid hallucinations in some people, it's just not as common as one would think.
The explanation on psychedelics is misleading. This is especially prominent within the examples given in reference to a "good" and "bad" trip. Rather, these examples (centipedes crawling under the skin) seem to align with the Deliriant class in which those under effect percieve objects, people and scenarios which are completely non-existent which is very different to psychedelics despite the similarity in distortion to conscious awareness. Those affected by psychadelic drugs, such as the ones presented in the video, are more likely to see a shift in colour, breathing walls, patterns overlaying vision and on surfaces. However, unlike those who have ingested deliriants, people under the affect on hallucinogens are aware of that the changes to perception are due to the drug effects.
The feeling of bugs crawling under your skin is more often seen in stimulant psychosis among people who use coke or meth. They're called coke bugs for a reason.
+Fred Willis Hank has a very biased opinion on drugs (if that wasn't obvious from the video). I have yet to see any video were he wasn't overly smug about drugs and addiction and left his opinions out of it. Not saying drugs are good for you by any means but there is more to it than "drugs are evil, you're a stupid person if you use them, nothing good can come from them".
Rhoslyn Lloyd-Jones you cant get addicted to psychedellics they dont work that way.in fact they work to break addiction and other negative behaviour patterns thats why i ak dissapointed he doesnt really talk very much about them.
+Dustin Wrye Sadly, most people have an almost North Korean level conditioning when it comes to how they perceive psychoactive substances. I was not surprised by Hanks bias, I don't blame him.
+Fred Willis This is Crash Course Psychology, not Crash Course Drug Use. Also, psychology's relationship with drugs deserves a waaaay longer video, not just a brief overview.
I’m glad everyone here is addressing the problems in this video with its depiction of hallucinogens. This does, however, seem to align with what kids are taught to answer on a test on psychology, especially AP psychology or a high school level course where all drugs are typically demonized. Buying into the cultural conception of these compounds is the exact reason so many people completely overlook them or consider them dangerous, while the people who have questioned the established western culture enough to have these experiences will tell you how incredible these compounds can be as a way of expanding consciousness and other beneficial effects like mushrooms neurogenesis. I know he didn’t mean to demonize this class of drug, but as it’s pretty clear he hasn’t actually had these experiences he just comes across as unaware as to what they actually do. The worst part is how many people are going to be shown this video in class or something and just take all of it at face value, meanwhile if they were willing to expose themselves to a psychedelic experience they would almost certainly change for the better
As a recovering drug addict, I must say this is a v well done video. If you can talk about drugs and NOT trigger an addict to use or desire them, you did a good job. PS: loved the Fear and Loathing and Trainspotting references.
oh my god, finally I can correct Hank on something that he overgeneralised. Hallucinogens aren't 'also known as' psychedelics; hallucinogens are the class, and psychedelics are effectively a branch of drugs within that class. LSD is classified as a psychedelic and with this also considered a hallucinogen (although the term 'hallucinogen' is a slight case of false advertisement by definition), whereas a drug like Salvia Divinorum is a hallucinogen and sometimes called a dissociative, but isn't a psychedelic.
haha I agree. I was about to do the same thing. Hallucinogens are a general group of pharmacological agents that can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants. Wiki that shit.
I felt the magnetic pull of the earth while on a salvia trip. I also lost all knowledge of language. I also forgot who I was, who the people in the room with me were and I forgot how I came to be in that state. Thank goodness it only lasts 15 min.
styk0n Sort of correct. Hallucinogens and dissociatives and deliriums are the three sub-types of psychedelic drugs. Hallucinogens alter one's perception (tryptamines, phenethylamines, etc). Dissociatives block the brain from the rest of the nervous sytem (also killing pain) and deliriums create completely new realities which the brain believes: like a dream.
He was so unfair to psychedelics. Didn't even mention the studies that show their effectiveness fighting PTSD, anxiety, depression and addiction. He spent more time on cocaine than all the hallucinogens combined.
He gives no opinion, only the actual scientific facts of how they work. There's a couple of remarks about the lives of coke addicts (not coke users), but he says nothing about the moral value of taking drugs. Or did I miss a spot where he said that hallucinogens are bad?
It's crazy how useful LSD or Mushrooms can be to someone's if used properly. I think they can be more helpful then many of the methods we have today in treatment. The ultimate goal is for someone to want to change. That comes through intrinsic motivation and while on these drugs you gain an intense self awareness and epiphanies are also common. You may uncover emotional blockage or realize things you could change and realize what's important in life. They are ways to a deeper understanding of your mind and soul.
Kameron Maki 5 months late on this but there is a difference between what a person may want and them having the will or ability to achieve that. There are internal and external factors that change the situation once you're off that trip. Forcing your brain into a temporary state of mind isn't exactly a long term solution.
I disagree. it enlightens you and you learn lessons on the trip.. However you must remember the lessons of the trip and it shall give you a clearer path in life. Yes you must have the will and not everyone has the will to follow their ultimate path.
butterflycaught900 Ok, so a lot of drug warnings are overhyped, but LSD is not among them. I can't leave the conversation in good conscience without mentioning that LSD was the most traumatic experience of my life, and two years later I still have not recovered fully. Just please, reconsider having someone there to keep you safe. Slow down, put it off, and find someone who can take care of you for the entire time - it took 9 hours before my trip went south, and just when I thought I was coming down I experienced 6 hours of complete hell. Treat yourself kindly, friend.
Gillsing He explained a bit more about hypnosis and suggestibility, I think it would have fit nicely and highlighted a practical use that everybody comes in contact with.
Hallucinogens rarely cause true hallucinations. Most often they result in fractal shapes, breathing imagery, and washing body sensations. The biggest change is aural, which is a shift in consciousness that reduces the ability to perform linear thought (like reading or performing mathematics), and increases the ability to grasp emotional concepts, things that involve empathy and perceiving the interconnectedness of life. The easiest way to explain it is that it's like the emotional and spiritual becomes vaguely physical. This can definitely cause discomfort and fear, if individuals are going through emotional stress that they have not addressed. That very change in perception can be immensely valuable in taking a step out of the hedge maze to work through complex personal trauma, and is currently being used with success is therapy. (A true hallucination would be where one was unable to distinguish that which is real, from that which is not. It's possible to achieve this with high doses, but this is not recommended for obvious reasons.)
Only speaking of hallucinations with psychedelics shows a supreme lack of understanding as to what they do. The enlightened men many people on this planet still worship for the most part got their kick after a revealing trip or two. By no means were they caught in the surface level of hallucinatory effects, nor did they probably have any like what is so often described by the inexperienced.
hallucinogens include three other types of drugs. psychedelics- lsd, mushrooms, dmt ect. dissociatives- drugs like ketamine Deliriants- drugs like dakura
You don't see things that aren't there on psychedelics. The stuff that's already there becomes distorted, textures rearrange into patterns and your thoughts become more profound and intense
gotta admit, I'm a little disappointed with the lack of knowledge towards psychedelic therapy, it's at least been heard of, right? ..no? well, founded in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. I suggest perhaps Googling it.
I have been hypnotized, although I wasn't quite sure whether I was hypnotized at the time. In my experience, if you say "Everyone's head is invisible" then the hynotised person would still see people's heads, but pretend they don't. It's like suspension of dissagreement. I also think it helps to have a nice voice if you're going to be hypnotising people. I wonder if it makes any difference that I was/am an adolescent, and probably was tired.
Around 5:58 he is talking about the legal drugs you have used. If you turn on subtitles, in between "your morning coffee" and "some tylenol pm.." it says "A beer at lunch" xD
Yet another 'education' video providing very biased information on psychedelics. You should explain what 'psychedelic' means like you do with hallucinogen as well as the context where the name came from. They have been used for creative problem solving, curing depression, addiction, PTSD, and improving overall quality of life. Plenty of research to back up everything I've said - Where did you get your sources for your information? Are you aware of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)? What about the neurological comparison of meditative states and psychedelic states?
I think most people know that practically all drugs have been used for those things and the video wasn't about psychedelics it was a general altered states vid so it couldn't go in depth about anything. Though where was he biased?
I would love for a study to be done on the effects scarcity has upon addiction. The fact that as an addict you worry you might not be able to get your next fix or that something might happen to keep you from buying the drugs actually causes a more intense addiction. I feel that it also romanticizes the drugs as something forbidden and sexy but that is another topic. I honestly feel that by keeping the drugs illegal and difficult to obtain (that being a relative term) we create a situation where individuals become more addicted because they feel they need to buy as much of the drug as possible when it is available for purchase.I feel a lot of the problems, especially of addiction, relate back to the way we handle certain drugs and certain freedoms (or lack there of). Sadly we are not mature enough as a society to treat these things like adults. I speak from personal experience and have seen first hand people trying to self medicate. Unfortunately there is no cure for existing.......and we need to be more open to helping those who are in need to treatment.
Alexandre Walker something interesting: among violent pairs of socio and psychopaths, the sociopath usually plans it, the psychopath carries it out. Fun fact.
psychopaths are born without the ability to feel empathy. sociopaths are usually people who were extremely traumatized as children (abuse, neglect, etc.) and now do not feel empathy
the hallucinogenic group has two sub catagories. the first is psychedelic the second dissasociative. there is a big difference between these two types of hallucinogenic substances.
Blake Place You are certainly correct regarding cannabis as having psychedelic properties. However, many organisations put cannabis in its own category (I believe due to it having a vast range of psychological effects) It's literally named the cannabis category, along with Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens, Narcotics, Dissociative drugs and Inhalants. It really depends on how one chooses to compartmentalize. :)
He talked about hallucinogens so we heard about LSD, DMT on some level. What I was surprised about was the lack of discussion of the most common illicit drug: marijuana, which neither/both a stimulant and/nor a depressant. Maybe that's why he didn't go into it? Would've been nice to serve as an example of how not all things fall into neat categories.
And most aren't 100% sativa or 100% indica either, further complicating it. I simple "we don't know enough yet so I'm going to leave MJ out" would have been nice.
10 weeks and we haven't tackle any hardcore cognitive psychology yet, like memory, perception, leaning, conditioning, theories of attachment, imprinting, fear and emotions? And that's not even to mention the equally huge side of social psychology that needs to be covered to make this series worthwhile. I did psychology at college and got a good grade, but at the moment I'm a bit underwhelm by this series. If this is a 20+ week course, you have got to move it up a gear and get off the biology. This is not Crash Course Biological Psychology!
Terrell Edwards No, what was covered barely scratch the surface of those two topics. I can not think of one study he has refer to in this series yet. What gets taught in Psychology, (even at a basic level), just for memory is: Lofus' and Plamer's study on eye witness testimony (1974), Atkinson's and Shiffrin's work on long term and short term memory. (1968), Bartlett work on constructive models of memory (1932), Miller (1955), Bousfield (1953), Tulving and Pelstone (1966), Ebbinghaus (1885), Baddeley (1995) Craik and Lockhart (1972), and a few other more.
seahawk124 It appears more like that is all he is covering, just the surface since this is just all of the stuff I learned in my AP Psychology class in high school, just prepping for an AP test.
I did G.C.S.E. Psychology (end of high school level in the UK) at college, and I only did it for a year, but it was a lot more in-depth than this series. I'm just disappointed, it's missing its potential.
Does neural adaptation work the other way, meaning if you haven't had a drug for a long period of time your tolerance decreases? Common sense suggests the answer is yes but just want to make sure.
yes your brain always adapts to its circumstances, so if you're no longer taking something every day your brain will *slowly* revert to a normal tolerance level.
ljkolnick withdrawal is the (sometimes extreme) reaction to your body not getting what it has become accustomed to. A crackhead can go through a very hard "cold turkey" withdrawal but still need almost the same amount of crack to get high. The symptoms of withdrawal is just the body suddenly not having a chemical it has had for a long time and *starting* to bring older and unused glands back online.
well to be fair Freud wasn't exactly wrong that it helps stop the addiction, he just forgot to mention the part where it causes you to be addicted to something else!
Quite good. You might look into the work of Dr. David Luke from University of Greenwich who works on the psychology of hallucinogens and other related areas. And er uh how about a new suitcoat? Something with a little pizzazz that makes those great tee shirts pop even more. (sorry ... ). The recap at the end is great, and not just for the AP Psych watchers. Good job as always.
"Lots of ways to involuntarily hallucinate without the use of drugs: Seizures, brain injuries, diseases, sensory deprivation, fever, stress, or even extreme grief or depression," Yeah, I'll stick to hallucinogens, though sensory deprivation is something I'd like to try.
The most common hallucinations that are... well I guess not exactly voluntary but not frowned upon at the time are just stress based. Not stress in the work sucked that day sense but in the body is stressed sense. Particularly when I have a fever. Some of you may have examples of this too. Probably doesn't help with the suggestability but illness can cause some really interesting hallucinations from time to time.
for those complaining about his misinformation to psychedelics, please take note that this videos is from 2014. that year were cannabis was barely emerging to legality. shrooms and lsd information wasnt until late 2016 and since then has been suppressed from society by big pharma.
very outdated an inaccurate info on psychedelics. theres a lot of new research and data out there. its much more mind boggling and surprising than "distorts perception" or "sensory input that isn't there". Disappointing, crash course... :/
Hallucinogens aren't also known as psychedelics. Psychedelics are a subclass of Hallucinogens. Other subclasses include Deliriants and Dissasociatives, all of which have their own distinct effects.
I am a bit disappointed in your cursory pass over hallucinogens. The category you have defined as hallucinogens shows so much promising research for treating those suffering from ptsd to cluster headaches, even showing promise in improving recidivism rates among those released from prison. Not too cool guys. Otherwise great work!
Haha. You can ask people to dissociate. I wouldn't dissociate for money! I took a medication many years ago and I had dissociation because of it, and haven't shaken the feeling for years.
Booo! Is there not enough factual information about the mystical experience of psychedelics/entheogens to present objective educational material? I wouldve much appreciated an insight into the realm of mystical experiences, especially those induced by hallucinogens as evidenced by the John Hopkins psilocybin study. I feel as though not fairly representing that information is contrary to one of the reasons I really enjoy crash course videos; an educational series independent of public educational curriculum. In other words, I fully expect public education to tip-toe around the mystery of the psychedelic experience, but I was really hoping Crash Course could take a more objective approach to the subject. I am, for once, disappointed with this video.
Was so dissappointed to see how the psychedelics were treated, but so relieved to see the community response. The psychedelic experience and the implications of it have a lot to say about psychology and may just be, to say the least, to this study what the telescope is to astronomy. Yes this is a crash course about science and it is supposed to reflect a certain curriculum, but this kind of coverage of altered states is disengenuous.
Found it humorous how little the functions of hallucinogens was covered here, and how plain wrong the descriptions of peyote, mushrooms, and LSD were... Psychology has a long way to go.
You know, I'm going to confess something. I initially did not want to like this. I wanted it to be more of the touchy feely and less about the biochemistry. I'll freely admit that I'm seriously NOT disappointed in my disappointment, since these just keep getting better and better.
I went into it with the same expectation. perhaps you understand when I say there is no understating how much you can not just explain away psychotropic experiences, especially to someone who has never had them. but Hank always delivers! one of my favorite scientists for sure, recognizes (like Sagan and Tyson) that science is the study of mystery, not the denial of it
I'm truly ashamed to admit that I used to find sport in messing with the mentally ill. Double points if they run away screaming. Then I found a video that simulates what a schizophrenic endures all day every day. Truly, truly scary. Fortunately I seem to have developed a latent case of empathy somewhere. Of course most of the people I toyed with are either long dead or have moved on, so I can't apologize for being a right twat.
rogerdotlee Dont blame yourself for not knowing something until you knew it! In this case it was empathy, but as long as you keep it there's no need to apologize- as long as you forgive yourself.
you meed to do a whole episode on psychedelics, theres much more to them than just seeing centipedes crawl around
Exactly. He got psychedelics all wrong. People don't see things that aren't there, They just urge communication between brain regions that normally wouldn't communicate that much. The effects, more times than not, are therapeutically beneficial.
josh bolin i know firsthand😉
Everytime I reach the point of heavy hallucinations on psilocybin I enter what can only be described as a trance like state, somewhere between awake and asleep. The trips seem to take place in a way that is hard to distinguish them from dreams
''Dude, what's reality?'' he asked
''I have no idea'' I answered
That's also completely dependent on tons of other factors. Environment, dosage, actual drug you are taking, mindset at the time of taking it, any predisposition towards a mental disorder...Tons of factors play into how a psychedelic is going to affect you, and I agree they can be beneficial and have been proven to be so, He is doing a "crash course'' specifically in psychology, and how the brain works. PsychedSubstance and YourMateTom are both pretty solid TH-camrs if you want a lot of info on psychedelics.
I take Shrooms every 4 months to help with Depression and Anxiety. Its like a Day of Meditation and relaxation.
Psychedelics are not a synonym for Hallucinogens. Psychedelics are a class of Hallucinogens. There are Psychedelics, Dissociatives, and Deliriants. Psychedelics merely display mental processes in a new lens. Disassociatives make you hallucinate by bringing you out of touch with reality. Deliriants make you hallucinate by intoxicaticating and harming your perception of reality. It's very important to differentiate. Psychedelics are definitely the most innocent of the three. They don't cause mental illness. They just temporarily let the mind see things through a whole new set of eyes. Sometimes a change of perception can be very beneficial.
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@@zac9311 i love taking 1000ug of nbome and beating up homeless people
dissacociatives the best smdh
@Alexander Supertramp as somebody who's fine plenty of acid but also plenty of salvia (acid of course being a psychedelic and salvia being a dissociative) I agree with op. Acid makes the real world look weird, salvia makes you see a weird false world. I feel far more in touch with myself and my body on acid because it doesn't make me dissociate
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I just need to point one thing out: Hallucinogens like LSD, magic mushrooms and peyote doesn't actually makes you see things that aren't there. They rather just distort the way you perceive sensory input to explain it that way. I felt as if I had a moral assignment to clear this up on behalf of all the users of psychedelics out there in this worlds of ours, and I am tired of the stigma that comes with misinformation.
For me at least i did not see things that were not there with my eyes open, but when I had them closed i was brought out of this world seeing magical creatures and speaking to them. I forgot that the world was even real at times. Definitely an interesting experience. It was a really big dose and it was my first time so it affected me very strongly
Also with mushrooms your body develops a instant tolerance to, so it's impossible to become addicted, this tolerance goes away over time. The Ld50 is huge as well, making it impossible to overdose, so yeah definitely not as harmful as a lot of stigma makes out.
but it is important to note people can get addicted to the hallucinations and the feeling of the 'trip'. I know this personally. My own mother pulled out of her teeth during a 'bad trip' because they had 'distorted' into aliens. The stigma that these drugs are harmful is correct. Yes, they can be used positively. But you never know how your body will respond (like all drugs). My mother took LSD because she wanted to escape reality which is a major reason why people start taking hallucinogens and she never wanted to leave the world LSD gave her. She ignored her family and friends and used all the money she had to get more drugs. So please, do not undermine the experiences of LSD or dismiss those who are cautious of it (and for good reason). Also, if you buy drugs illegally, you never truly know what is in there. For example, PMA and mepherdone can be sold as MDMA/ecstasy. Btw my Mum eventually died from taking LSD, not from an overdose but because of heart failure because each time you take the drug it puts pressure on your heart. So please don't say " it impossible to overdose, so yeah definitely not as harmful as a lot of stigma makes out", because yes it can be and it can kill. Its your body and you can do whatever you want with it but make sure you're living in reality as well.
Given sufficient quantities you can certainly perceive robust non existent things, though I have found they are largely mundane things. That being said, a quantity sufficient to cause proper hallucinations is very definitely “too much”
You can take enough to hallucinat, I've never had enough to see things but I know people who have had heroic doses and see things
Seems like you got your information on psychedelics from the DEA's website.
Psychedelics don't belong in a conversation about narcotics. Basically you people are all dumb. You need to be educated. You have dumb information in your brain. This needs to be corrected. Crash Course just added to your stupidity. Saying caterpillars under your skin is bs. Nobody does that.
Basically psychedelics or entheogens are probably one of the most valuable tools nature has given us. And we've made them illegal and misinformed the entire world on them. Even academics will pedal this bs rhetoric. It's infuriating.
Steven Cavigliano You are right. You, a junkie, definitely know more about drugs than scientists and academics who spend their whole lives researching them.
N M this is what you should’ve said. “I’m a sheep who listens to whatever people with authority tell me and refuse to do actual research, and because I’m so stupid I insult other people who have actually done their own research”
@Javier I'm in New Zealand. I once read America's drug clarifications to my flatmates and we were extremely confused. Why on earth is weed more dangerous than METH?
Here’s some quick info about various psychedelics effects from a long time and current user (me):
LSD and Shrooms will never make you see things that aren’t there. You will never hallucinate a dragon attacking you or centipedes on your skin. You will see colors more vibrantly, and you will see shifting patterns that might change depending on what your looking at. Some things can be scary because you’re perceiving them differently than you normally would. It’s not uncommon to look at someone’s face and see their features slowly distorting, which may be funny or disturbing depending on your mindset. You may also see visual trails, as in seeing your friend waving their hand would leave a visual trail like camera with long exposure. Now although you might not actually see something like a hideous beast ready to attack, you may believe there is a beast somewhere awaiting to harm you because your altered state of consciousness caused you to take visual and audio cues in a bad way. Say you’re with you’re friends and they make some mention about wolves and then you hear a rustling in the bushes, it must be wolves! But that all depends on your own personal fears and neuroses.
DMT is similar in lower doses, but when the “breakthrough” point is achieved it’s kind of like being transported to a different dimension. Wonderful vibrant colors everywhere in shifting fractal patterns. Your body feels like it’s floating, or perhaps like you’re floating outside of your body. Now with every breakthrough point there is a perception of contact with an entity or entities that might seem like meeting a deity, spiritual force, or a kind of inter dimensional extraterrestrial. The tribes in Peru that drink the Ayahuasca brew call it “Mother Ayahuasca.” It’s never harmful or appears to have malicious intent, but always seems to communicate advice for your personal wellbeing. Perhaps in psychological terms it’s the consciousness meeting the subconscious in personified form.
The only hallucinogen that will make you see things that actually are not there are deleriants. You could take some Datura flower extract, but 500mg of Benadryl will do the job just as well. You will actual see things like shadow people in your room, and the trip is often just not fun and not worth it.
Hope this helped somebody and cleared up anyone’s confusion! Stay safe and don’t trust the DEA!
I really wish we legalize hallucinogens soon, so that we can study and experiment with them freely... They have an enormous ammount of potential in a variety of domains, and unlike what most think, there's more to it than "hallucinating that you're petting a dolphin". Many report intense mystical or spiritual experiences under them; They might hold into them a very important piece of the puzzle that we could be ignoring, and it's a bit silly that society is currently banning them.
Perhaps they should legalize them for research reasons, rather than for public use.
Baires Moreno
Well, most known hallucinogens; psylocybin mushrooms, cannabis, DMT, are completely safe. The LD50 (the lethal dose) is ridiculously high for all of those, it'd be physically impossible to overdose. So considering that substances that kill thousands of people every year (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine) are not only legal, but sold at every corner, why shouldn't we legalize for public use those that never killed anyone, and have tremendous mental and physical benefits if used properly?
Of course they can be misused.
You can have 10 grams of mushrooms in a dirty apartment alone, and freak out for a while; Or you can have 5 grams out in nature with someone you love and come back optimistic and calm for weeks.
You can put salt on your fries and enjoy them; or you can sit with half a pound of salt and a spoon, eat it all, and die.
Misuse is the reason why they are illegal, unlike alcohol and caffeine, they are highly addictive which usually leads to more chances of misuse. There is always a chance of overdose, when too much is taken at a time and the body can't process such a big amount. Ultimately, caffeine, tobacco and alcohol don't have as much of a big impact socially speaking when compared to hallucinogens.
Baires Moreno I feel the need to correct you - alcohol and caffeine *are* addictive as well. In severe alcoholism, the withdrawal symptoms can actually kill you. That sure scared me in school when I first learned about it.
Oh yeah absolutely, I didn't say they weren't addictive, it says so in the video itself.
I've pretty much just started watching these for fun at this point and the pursuit of knowledge. they are so well animated and narrated I cant get enough and I never get bored. I think the best way to convey info now is through audible and visual stimulation
I feel like the one thing these crash courses lessons have taught me is that Freud was an utterly redonkulous dude permanently living on cloud nine.
I wonder if he assessed his own oral fixation to cigars as his inner child mourning the loss of his mother not returning his sexual feelings. I mean, this dude was wack.
I am in love with this comment.
You may think you know all about hypnosis from the movies. Zoolander, The Manchurian Candidate, etc... but there's a whole lot more going on. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, ***** tells us about some of the many altered states of consciousness, including hypnosis.
Altered States - Crash Course Psychology #10
Everything I know about hypnotism I learned from the movie Altered States.
I have often described herione withdrawl like this, Take the worst possible most horrible feeling you can imagine it, then multiply it by cancer.
Little known fact about Freud; never actually wore a beard, he was just a really sloppy coke fiend.
CrashCourse and *****, did you know that the original recipe for Coca-Cola actually contained tiny bits of cocaine? That also explains the first part of the name "Coca", meaning cocaine, and it's nickname which we still call it today: "coke". After they looked into it and a new alternative was found, which is caffeine, they permanently changed the recipe to make Coca-Cola with caffeine instead of cocaine.
TheFireflyGrave However, Lincoln didn't wear a beard, but he got to wear one when a little girl preferred it!
I feel like there's a huge misconception about what hallucinogens do. The vast majority of psychedelics aren't going to cause the type of hallucinations most people think of when taken at a normal dose (e.g. petting a baby dolphin, having centipedes crawling under your skin, etc.) Classical psychedelics such as LSD, or psilocybin containing mushrooms generally just alter your perception of the things that are already around you, causing light to be brighter, colours to be more vivid, and an effect that's referred to as "breathing" wherein still objects appear to move and breath, almost like they're alive. This isn't to say that classical psychedelics CAN'T cause more vivid hallucinations in some people, it's just not as common as one would think.
The explanation on psychedelics is misleading. This is especially prominent within the examples given in reference to a "good" and "bad" trip. Rather, these examples (centipedes crawling under the skin) seem to align with the Deliriant class in which those under effect percieve objects, people and scenarios which are completely non-existent which is very different to psychedelics despite the similarity in distortion to conscious awareness. Those affected by psychadelic drugs, such as the ones presented in the video, are more likely to see a shift in colour, breathing walls, patterns overlaying vision and on surfaces. However, unlike those who have ingested deliriants, people under the affect on hallucinogens are aware of that the changes to perception are due to the drug effects.
You can be aware you're hallucinating and still be scared by your hallucinations.
Yes, but perceiving without sensory input and simple having perception of sensory input distorted are two very different things.
Enola people metabolize differently and i agree 100% with the hallucinogenic part and ive done plenty.
HushGod thats why my friend always felt and saw spiders on him and crawling out of his face holes on 2 hits of LSD. Seems legit.
The feeling of bugs crawling under your skin is more often seen in stimulant psychosis among people who use coke or meth. They're called coke bugs for a reason.
I can't believe you didn't talk about psychology's relationship with lsd mushrooms etc, bit disappointed
+Fred Willis Hank has a very biased opinion on drugs (if that wasn't obvious from the video). I have yet to see any video were he wasn't overly smug about drugs and addiction and left his opinions out of it. Not saying drugs are good for you by any means but there is more to it than "drugs are evil, you're a stupid person if you use them, nothing good can come from them".
+Fred Willis He talks about addiction in episode #31
Rhoslyn Lloyd-Jones you cant get addicted to psychedellics they dont work that way.in fact they work to break addiction and other negative behaviour patterns thats why i ak dissapointed he doesnt really talk very much about them.
+Dustin Wrye Sadly, most people have an almost North Korean level conditioning when it comes to how they perceive psychoactive substances. I was not surprised by Hanks bias, I don't blame him.
+Fred Willis This is Crash Course Psychology, not Crash Course Drug Use. Also, psychology's relationship with drugs deserves a waaaay longer video, not just a brief overview.
I’m glad everyone here is addressing the problems in this video with its depiction of hallucinogens. This does, however, seem to align with what kids are taught to answer on a test on psychology, especially AP psychology or a high school level course where all drugs are typically demonized. Buying into the cultural conception of these compounds is the exact reason so many people completely overlook them or consider them dangerous, while the people who have questioned the established western culture enough to have these experiences will tell you how incredible these compounds can be as a way of expanding consciousness and other beneficial effects like mushrooms neurogenesis. I know he didn’t mean to demonize this class of drug, but as it’s pretty clear he hasn’t actually had these experiences he just comes across as unaware as to what they actually do. The worst part is how many people are going to be shown this video in class or something and just take all of it at face value, meanwhile if they were willing to expose themselves to a psychedelic experience they would almost certainly change for the better
I would agree, but everybody complaining like a bunch of liberals soooo
I remember my first time doing LSD. It was fucking insane...but cool as shit!
wait, coffee headache is actually a withdrawal? today i learn something new.
+Calvin Zero Was that a joke?
+Fredrik Dunge r/iamverysmart
Well I AM very smart, I have a hard time reading people though. so my question was genuine not sarcasm.
+Calvin Zero its a drug like any else
how'd you not know that?
Can u please please please do an episode about lucid dreaming?
Admit it. Most of us are only here because we're taking AP Psychology
Nope. 5th grade just looking for some psychological science.
E Steele You're in the 5th grade and interested in this? Nice. I grew up watching the history and science channel
Same, but I'm older ^^
Lane Lindy Nice =^.^=
Taya Hoy Yeah psychology is really interesting
As a recovering drug addict, I must say this is a v well done video. If you can talk about drugs and NOT trigger an addict to use or desire them, you did a good job.
PS: loved the Fear and Loathing and Trainspotting references.
oh my god, finally I can correct Hank on something that he overgeneralised.
Hallucinogens aren't 'also known as' psychedelics; hallucinogens are the class, and psychedelics are effectively a branch of drugs within that class. LSD is classified as a psychedelic and with this also considered a hallucinogen (although the term 'hallucinogen' is a slight case of false advertisement by definition), whereas a drug like Salvia Divinorum is a hallucinogen and sometimes called a dissociative, but isn't a psychedelic.
haha I agree. I was about to do the same thing. Hallucinogens are a general group of pharmacological agents that can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants. Wiki that shit.
I felt the magnetic pull of the earth while on a salvia trip. I also lost all knowledge of language. I also forgot who I was, who the people in the room with me were and I forgot how I came to be in that state. Thank goodness it only lasts 15 min.
styk0n Sort of correct. Hallucinogens and dissociatives and deliriums are the three sub-types of psychedelic drugs. Hallucinogens alter one's perception (tryptamines, phenethylamines, etc). Dissociatives block the brain from the rest of the nervous sytem (also killing pain) and deliriums create completely new realities which the brain believes: like a dream.
He was so unfair to psychedelics. Didn't even mention the studies that show their effectiveness fighting PTSD, anxiety, depression and addiction. He spent more time on cocaine than all the hallucinogens combined.
I think it was pretty fair, there wasn't a lot of bad things to say about hallucinogens, in comparisson to the others.
Eavesdrops & Whispers
lol you can't say much in 10 seconds.
Adam Julius
what do you mean?;p
that's all the time he spent on all of them combined in an 11 minute video.
Adam Julius
so yeah, my point exactly;)
I'm going for my psychology degree and the only thing we are assigned are to watch this series so thank you professor lol
Smoking some weed while micro dosing shrooms while watching this, my consciousness is plenty altered (in a good way :D).
same :) micro-dosing is quite pleasant
Raj Singh You and me are Indian.
By what I know,you might be lying.
But you are just consuming without questioning, you are as good as asleep
Their take on hallucinogens is so conservative and misconstrued....
true. take them before you speak so confidently about them.
josh bolin Precisely. They obviously have no experience first-hand...
He gives no opinion, only the actual scientific facts of how they work. There's a couple of remarks about the lives of coke addicts (not coke users), but he says nothing about the moral value of taking drugs. Or did I miss a spot where he said that hallucinogens are bad?
Yes, but, some people watching this may think that, by endorsing hallucinogenic drugs, makes all drugs safe
Steven Cavigliano HA! YES!
It's crazy how useful LSD or Mushrooms can be to someone's if used properly. I think they can be more helpful then many of the methods we have today in treatment. The ultimate goal is for someone to want to change. That comes through intrinsic motivation and while on these drugs you gain an intense self awareness and epiphanies are also common. You may uncover emotional blockage or realize things you could change and realize what's important in life. They are ways to a deeper understanding of your mind and soul.
Kameron Maki 5 months late on this but there is a difference between what a person may want and them having the will or ability to achieve that. There are internal and external factors that change the situation once you're off that trip. Forcing your brain into a temporary state of mind isn't exactly a long term solution.
I disagree. it enlightens you and you learn lessons on the trip.. However you must remember the lessons of the trip and it shall give you a clearer path in life. Yes you must have the will and not everyone has the will to follow their ultimate path.
Trying lsd tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Make sure to have a sober sitter, mate! Be safe.
epsereth solo trip. toes crossed too
Welp ... godspeed, then.
butterflycaught900 Ok, so a lot of drug warnings are overhyped, but LSD is not among them. I can't leave the conversation in good conscience without mentioning that LSD was the most traumatic experience of my life, and two years later I still have not recovered fully. Just please, reconsider having someone there to keep you safe. Slow down, put it off, and find someone who can take care of you for the entire time - it took 9 hours before my trip went south, and just when I thought I was coming down I experienced 6 hours of complete hell. Treat yourself kindly, friend.
epsereth ill take a benzo if things go south. thats all i can do
Please do make some videos on lucid dreaming, PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. I'm really interested to know more about them. :)
He has a video on lucid dreaming
He does? I thought it was just dreaming.
Khai Tran He didnt mention lucid dreaming in his #9 video about dreams
Complex PTSD as well
So Hamlet might have seen an hallucination of his father because of grief?
I'm surprised there was no mention of advertisements - which are the most prevalent form of mass suggestion.
But advertisements don't put people's brains into "altered states", do they? Which is what this episode was about.
Gillsing He explained a bit more about hypnosis and suggestibility, I think it would have fit nicely and highlighted a practical use that everybody comes in contact with.
@@clint-webb u r gay
Also: Religion.
The opium for the masses
Psychedelic drugs are the best
Hallucinogens rarely cause true hallucinations. Most often they result in fractal shapes, breathing imagery, and washing body sensations. The biggest change is aural, which is a shift in consciousness that reduces the ability to perform linear thought (like reading or performing mathematics), and increases the ability to grasp emotional concepts, things that involve empathy and perceiving the interconnectedness of life.
The easiest way to explain it is that it's like the emotional and spiritual becomes vaguely physical. This can definitely cause discomfort and fear, if individuals are going through emotional stress that they have not addressed. That very change in perception can be immensely valuable in taking a step out of the hedge maze to work through complex personal trauma, and is currently being used with success is therapy.
(A true hallucination would be where one was unable to distinguish that which is real, from that which is not. It's possible to achieve this with high doses, but this is not recommended for obvious reasons.)
Wait............that means you take drugs cause you know!!! Haaaaaauuuuuuhhhhhh!
Yeah, academics never want to look at positive ayahuasca, psilocybin, or LSD experiences, just perpetuate the stereotypical "bad trip".
Only speaking of hallucinations with psychedelics shows a supreme lack of understanding as to what they do. The enlightened men many people on this planet still worship for the most part got their kick after a revealing trip or two. By no means were they caught in the surface level of hallucinatory effects, nor did they probably have any like what is so often described by the inexperienced.
hallucinogens and psychedelics are not the same thing
Then tell us the difference, if you will.
hallucinogens include three other types of drugs.
psychedelics- lsd, mushrooms, dmt ect.
dissociatives- drugs like ketamine
Deliriants- drugs like dakura
Lol that Hunter S. Thompson cartoon at 5 minutes
I have to study for my AP Psych final... and these videos are gonna be a life saver.
Hank Green, you are a life saver.
You don't see things that aren't there on psychedelics. The stuff that's already there becomes distorted, textures rearrange into patterns and your thoughts become more profound and intense
When can we expect to see some of these substances on our Subbable rewards list?
Isn't there chocolate already? There's caffeine, a stimulant, for you.
Good point! I should order some chocolate right now.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -Hunter S.Thompson
gotta admit, I'm a little disappointed with the lack of knowledge towards psychedelic therapy, it's at least been heard of, right? ..no? well, founded in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. I suggest perhaps Googling it.
Looks like you missed a pretty good chance to talk about lucid dreaming here. Did you include it in another episode?
I have been hypnotized, although I wasn't quite sure whether I was hypnotized at the time. In my experience, if you say "Everyone's head is invisible" then the hynotised person would still see people's heads, but pretend they don't. It's like suspension of dissagreement. I also think it helps to have a nice voice if you're going to be hypnotising people. I wonder if it makes any difference that I was/am an adolescent, and probably was tired.
Around 5:58 he is talking about the legal drugs you have used. If you turn on subtitles, in between "your morning coffee" and "some tylenol pm.." it says "A beer at lunch" xD
Yet another 'education' video providing very biased information on psychedelics. You should explain what 'psychedelic' means like you do with hallucinogen as well as the context where the name came from. They have been used for creative problem solving, curing depression, addiction, PTSD, and improving overall quality of life. Plenty of research to back up everything I've said - Where did you get your sources for your information? Are you aware of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)? What about the neurological comparison of meditative states and psychedelic states?
I think most people know that practically all drugs have been used for those things and the video wasn't about psychedelics it was a general altered states vid so it couldn't go in depth about anything. Though where was he biased?
fun fact - I can trace my ancestry back to Mesmer!
Dimethyltryptamine. Should have its own episode, although it already has a movie
I do really really enjoy lucid dreaming. a lot. almost late for work enjoy
My consciousness was altered, but i sure did learn! Thumbs up for fear and loathing in las vegas graphic at 5:28
O_O
I would love for a study to be done on the effects scarcity has upon addiction. The fact that as an addict you worry you might not be able to get your next fix or that something might happen to keep you from buying the drugs actually causes a more intense addiction. I feel that it also romanticizes the drugs as something forbidden and sexy but that is another topic. I honestly feel that by keeping the drugs illegal and difficult to obtain (that being a relative term) we create a situation where individuals become more addicted because they feel they need to buy as much of the drug as possible when it is available for purchase.I feel a lot of the problems, especially of addiction, relate back to the way we handle certain drugs and certain freedoms (or lack there of). Sadly we are not mature enough as a society to treat these things like adults. I speak from personal experience and have seen first hand people trying to self medicate. Unfortunately there is no cure for existing.......and we need to be more open to helping those who are in need to treatment.
WHAT'S WITH THE CREEPY CREAKING IN THE CUTAWAYS?
Movie references.
rts joe What movie?
Rachel Macdonald the baby with the spinning head is from Trainspotting.
Rachel Macdonald and the dude with the hat and flowery shirt swatting grasshoppers is Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Was that Mugatu from Zoolander at the beginning?
please do a episode on sociopaths...I can just imagine what's it gonna be like :p
yes please do that :)
yes, please! maybe even including the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths
Alexandre Walker something interesting: among violent pairs of socio and psychopaths, the sociopath usually plans it, the psychopath carries it out.
Fun fact.
psychopaths are born without the ability to feel empathy. sociopaths are usually people who were extremely traumatized as children (abuse, neglect, etc.) and now do not feel empathy
the hallucinogenic group has two sub catagories. the first is psychedelic the second dissasociative. there is a big difference between these two types of hallucinogenic substances.
5:28 Can't stop here. This is bat country.
Hallucinogens rule! Pink chickens and not being able to see stoplight colors are fun!
It's fun until you get in a wreck. After that it really depends on just how high you are.
I thought the title meant the movie.
Love the trainspotting reference.
Another great video. Also, nice Veritasium shirt.
Also, Cannabis is in its own category.
+Joshua Nicholls it's a psychodelic
Blake Place You are certainly correct regarding cannabis as having psychedelic properties. However, many organisations put cannabis in its own category (I believe due to it having a vast range of psychological effects) It's literally named the cannabis category, along with Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens, Narcotics, Dissociative drugs and Inhalants.
It really depends on how one chooses to compartmentalize. :)
that's cool :)
+Joshua Nicholls it's a psychedelic...
Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen Marijuana has no stimulant effect, unless you smoke it with tobacco.
3:31 Is that, is that John Green?
it's like all of them...
He talked about hallucinogens so we heard about LSD, DMT on some level. What I was surprised about was the lack of discussion of the most common illicit drug: marijuana, which neither/both a stimulant and/nor a depressant. Maybe that's why he didn't go into it? Would've been nice to serve as an example of how not all things fall into neat categories.
marijuana is a hallucinogen. I think it was not mentioned to keep the pro/anti debate out of the comments.
nilloc93 Cannabis rarely causes hallucinations, its more of a depressant if anything.
SirGooglinMort Smith
Cannabis has elements of different types of drugs, with differences between the different strains.
Indica could be a depressant, sativa could be a stimulant. I might agree with Nak, marijuana doesn't really fit in neatly with other drugs.
And most aren't 100% sativa or 100% indica either, further complicating it. I simple "we don't know enough yet so I'm going to leave MJ out" would have been nice.
08:05 FYI: "Über Coca" here means "about coca" rather than "super coca".
Thank you.
Wafflical You're welcome.
any body else see the worm from adventure time at 0:24
+Cakemix Craft no worms on the BED! wawawawaw...O_O
Oh yeah
You had a graphic of Hunter S Thompson! That is awesome!
Cory Hauptman technically it was Johnny Depp playing HST
Damn Sigmund Freud lived a long life for his time, and he was on all that.
10 weeks and we haven't tackle any hardcore cognitive psychology yet, like memory, perception, leaning, conditioning, theories of attachment, imprinting, fear and emotions? And that's not even to mention the equally huge side of social psychology that needs to be covered to make this series worthwhile.
I did psychology at college and got a good grade, but at the moment I'm a bit underwhelm by this series. If this is a 20+ week course, you have got to move it up a gear and get off the biology. This is not Crash Course Biological Psychology!
We did perceptions and memory
Perceiving is Believing and Getting to Know Your Brain
Terrell Edwards No, what was covered barely scratch the surface of those two topics. I can not think of one study he has refer to in this series yet.
What gets taught in Psychology, (even at a basic level), just for memory is:
Lofus' and Plamer's study on eye witness testimony (1974), Atkinson's and Shiffrin's work on long term and short term memory. (1968), Bartlett work on constructive models of memory (1932), Miller (1955), Bousfield (1953), Tulving and Pelstone (1966), Ebbinghaus (1885), Baddeley (1995) Craik and Lockhart (1972), and a few other more.
seahawk124 It appears more like that is all he is covering, just the surface since this is just all of the stuff I learned in my AP Psychology class in high school, just prepping for an AP test.
I did G.C.S.E. Psychology (end of high school level in the UK) at college, and I only did it for a year, but it was a lot more in-depth than this series.
I'm just disappointed, it's missing its potential.
How did Charles manson manipulate so many people to kill them?
Dr. Rick Straussman better be mentioned in this episode..
Does neuroadaptation apply when adjusting the amount of time we sleep? Even slightly?
The zoolander reference made my day XD
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Trainspotting" graphics in one video - thanks Thought Cafe!
I like how he referred to it as a ‘case-a-beer-buzz’ cuz he’s never bought one and wasn’t sure of the exact size of a “case of beer” 😂❤️
Does neural adaptation work the other way, meaning if you haven't had a drug for a long period of time your tolerance decreases? Common sense suggests the answer is yes but just want to make sure.
yes your brain always adapts to its circumstances, so if you're no longer taking something every day your brain will *slowly* revert to a normal tolerance level.
I believe that is what withdrawal is
ljkolnick withdrawal is the (sometimes extreme) reaction to your body not getting what it has become accustomed to. A crackhead can go through a very hard "cold turkey" withdrawal but still need almost the same amount of crack to get high. The symptoms of withdrawal is just the body suddenly not having a chemical it has had for a long time and *starting* to bring older and unused glands back online.
right, i guess that's what i meant, but that's more accurate put that way.
"...or the substance that chose you."
Wait, did he just reference "John Dies At The End"?
well to be fair Freud wasn't exactly wrong that it helps stop the addiction, he just forgot to mention the part where it causes you to be addicted to something else!
Quite good. You might look into the work of Dr. David Luke from University of Greenwich who works on the psychology of hallucinogens and other related areas. And er uh how about a new suitcoat? Something with a little pizzazz that makes those great tee shirts pop even more. (sorry ... ). The recap at the end is great, and not just for the AP Psych watchers. Good job as always.
"Lots of ways to involuntarily hallucinate without the use of drugs: Seizures, brain injuries, diseases, sensory deprivation, fever, stress, or even extreme grief or depression," Yeah, I'll stick to hallucinogens, though sensory deprivation is something I'd like to try.
Ha! *Trainspotting* reference at 7:33
The most common hallucinations that are... well I guess not exactly voluntary but not frowned upon at the time are just stress based. Not stress in the work sucked that day sense but in the body is stressed sense. Particularly when I have a fever. Some of you may have examples of this too. Probably doesn't help with the suggestability but illness can cause some really interesting hallucinations from time to time.
DMT...
for those complaining about his misinformation to psychedelics, please take note that this videos is from 2014. that year were cannabis was barely emerging to legality. shrooms and lsd information wasnt until late 2016 and since then has been suppressed from society by big pharma.
very outdated an inaccurate info on psychedelics. theres a lot of new research and data out there. its much more mind boggling and surprising than "distorts perception" or "sensory input that isn't there". Disappointing, crash course... :/
Hallucinogens aren't also known as psychedelics. Psychedelics are a subclass of Hallucinogens. Other subclasses include Deliriants and Dissasociatives, all of which have their own distinct effects.
How about disassociation from mediation?
I am a bit disappointed in your cursory pass over hallucinogens. The category you have defined as hallucinogens shows so much promising research for treating those suffering from ptsd to cluster headaches, even showing promise in improving recidivism rates among those released from prison. Not too cool guys. Otherwise great work!
Can you make an episode about DMT?
Why? If you want to know about it, crash course isn't the place to learn.
HITLER TOOK
THE DMT
STALIN TOOK
THE DMT
MAO TOOK
THE DMT
Won't you fight for your lives?
he should make a crash course with joe Rogan and psyched substance
I dont understand why you had to put psychedelics down like that on this video. Half of that isn't even true. How disappointing. So uninformative
Mine gods, is that a Vertasium shirt?
Haha. You can ask people to dissociate. I wouldn't dissociate for money! I took a medication many years ago and I had dissociation because of it, and haven't shaken the feeling for years.
Booo! Is there not enough factual information about the mystical experience of psychedelics/entheogens to present objective educational material? I wouldve much appreciated an insight into the realm of mystical experiences, especially those induced by hallucinogens as evidenced by the John Hopkins psilocybin study. I feel as though not fairly representing that information is contrary to one of the reasons I really enjoy crash course videos; an educational series independent of public educational curriculum. In other words, I fully expect public education to tip-toe around the mystery of the psychedelic experience, but I was really hoping Crash Course could take a more objective approach to the subject. I am, for once, disappointed with this video.
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* doesn't have to worry about brand and marketability and so speak honestly about hallucinagens*
Oh my god 5th view. I don't even know what to do this has never happened to me before.
Ya I am 110th view at 260 likes.....
Nothing on lucid dreaming? Deserves its own episode though.
I really love this shows non-opinionality
Was so dissappointed to see how the psychedelics were treated, but so relieved to see the community response. The psychedelic experience and the implications of it have a lot to say about psychology and may just be, to say the least, to this study what the telescope is to astronomy. Yes this is a crash course about science and it is supposed to reflect a certain curriculum, but this kind of coverage of altered states is disengenuous.
Is Hank's shirt in this video a Veritasium t-shirt?
+Logan Franz Yes.
+Bryan Cotto Is your picture King Crimson?
+Logan Franz Oh my god YES thats HILARIOUS
Found it humorous how little the functions of hallucinogens was covered here, and how plain wrong the descriptions of peyote, mushrooms, and LSD were... Psychology has a long way to go.
Is that a Veritasium shirt?
Totally saw that too!
I love that show. :)
Watching all the Psychology crash course videos just four days before my AP exam LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOkillmeOOOOOOOOO
is that a trainspotting reference i saw?
+Nate L indeed it was....creepy baby
i just saw a fear and loathing in las vegas reference :P
What, a Fear and Loathing and Trainspotting reference but no Breaking Bad?
You know, I'm going to confess something. I initially did not want to like this. I wanted it to be more of the touchy feely and less about the biochemistry. I'll freely admit that I'm seriously NOT disappointed in my disappointment, since these just keep getting better and better.
I'm in the same boat as you.
I went into it with the same expectation. perhaps you understand when I say there is no understating how much you can not just explain away psychotropic experiences, especially to someone who has never had them.
but Hank always delivers! one of my favorite scientists for sure, recognizes (like Sagan and Tyson) that science is the study of mystery, not the denial of it
I'm truly ashamed to admit that I used to find sport in messing with the mentally ill. Double points if they run away screaming.
Then I found a video that simulates what a schizophrenic endures all day every day. Truly, truly scary. Fortunately I seem to have developed a latent case of empathy somewhere.
Of course most of the people I toyed with are either long dead or have moved on, so I can't apologize for being a right twat.
rogerdotlee
Dont blame yourself for not knowing something until you knew it! In this case it was empathy, but as long as you keep it there's no need to apologize- as long as you forgive yourself.