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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
let me say something about why i find this so exciting: the fact that a single person was able to have this experience, even if it doesn't end up replicating easily, shows that *the neural circuitry for all this stuff is not missing*
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @hyperdiscogirl and @sunofdopamine
even if oxytocin or w/e doesn't pan out as a single-use miracle i could imagine it working well in combination with other things like MDMA and good therapy. it's already fascinating to me to know that it could work at all; that means there's no *missing neural circuitry*
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
and that whatever is going on it's more like some kind of low-level global setting gets tuned weirdly. since that setting is apparently affected by oxytocin, maybe it's something like "degree to which other people and self seem like friendly humans" but who knows
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
back to the reddit guy. he talks about getting tremors from memories of having sex with his wife! if someone had taught him how to do somatic experiencing at this exact moment he might've had a really good time shaking
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
by day 8 he's had so much sex with his wife that he's feeling "drained, sexually" although by day 9 "wife seems kinda disappointed when [the sex is] over" lmao i'm so happy for them
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
day 9 "It's like i could speak NTese" - he's not only accessing his feelings but effortlessly describing them to other people in a way they can understand. also empathy: "can see how the other people is feeling and anticipate their feelings"
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
day 10 "a very slow muscle relaxation event" - he's describing undoing muscle armoring from C-PTSD!!! "severe muscle knots... all over the region in my neck and shoulders and shoulder-blades"
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
day 11 "gaining new abilities with regard to sensing touch in my peripheral limbs," "flexibility is off the charts and I am doing stuff that would make yoga people impressed, but it's not yoga; I'm just trying to move to a position that relieves the knots" e m b o d i m e n t
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