>
> --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo"
> <richardhughes103@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Totally fascinating article (long) in the New York Times
> > magazine. A
> > > few excerpts:
> > >
> >
> > That is interesting, It reminds me of a time I was out of my head
> > on LSD and I became aware that I could change the way I responded
> > to events, I could see my superego selecting responses to things
> > out of a choice provided by my unconscious, it was pure Freud. I
> > could conscioussly decide on a different course of action. The
> > possibilities for treating mental illness or just achieving
> > personal desires is amazing. Unfortunately I got distracted by
the
> > wallpaper and forgot to take notes.
>
> <grin>
>
> Apparently the LSD researchers who had to abort their
> research when LSD became illegal thought they were on
> the verge of major breakthroughs in treating mental
> illness.
>
> Besides reminding me of witnessing experiences, what she
> describes also reminded me very much of what it's like
> to be under laughing gas at the dentist. Choice per se
> doesn't seem to be involved (unless knowing that you're
> getting laughing gas invokes some kind of placebo effect),
> but the experience, or at least my experience, was of
> feeling pain but not *minding* it, just as the reporter
> says. Very blissful too, which I suppose is why it's
> called "laughing gas."
>
Is it possible that in the case of masochists pain
induces euphoria?
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