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DOT - it's unusual effects possibly gender specific?

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This is just a piece of utterly wild speculation, but has any female out there tasted DOT/aleph? Just after discussing the unusual effects of DOT with B9, we came to the theory that the being in two totally different states of mind at the same time might just be a manifestation of how women are caoable of multitasking - something men are notoriously bad at. The idea came about as we both found DOT produced a state of being in two differing frames of mind without them impacting on each other, something that is a must for successful multitasking (men are bad because one always influences the other when trying to multitask - or at least that's the way I've read it to be)

So, any intrepid female guinea pigs had DOT and if so, did they get the same type of in two minds, simultaneously, as both myself &B9 expierienced (also would be nice to hear if that state has occurred with any other male partaker of DOT)?
 
I didn't get that effect but I didn't try a particularly high dose, was just stimulating with a slight psychedelic effect. I'm male, btw. What sort of dose did you take? Any +3's on 5mg?!
 
I don't buy into the possibility of true multi-tasking...I buy into 'rapid attention-shifting' theories.

I'm not quite sure what you're driving at...I've only had DOT low dose though but it DID provide a very lucid frame of mind to reason from...did not detect the phenomenon you are suggesting though (again it was a low dose).

It does appear however to be pretty erratic in its dose-response curve in certain individuals...enzyme issues?

I don't get the 'totally separate frames of mind' though. Nothing is totally separate in the brain. Every activation affects global patterns of activation (everything is connected either directly or indirectly and all variables are interdependent on all other variables). This is my basic understanding of the dynamic properties of the central nervous system.
 
^^^ My eyes just read the word "DOT" and I perceived black colors while reading while going "dot dot dot" in my head. Are you sure? I mean, I know we definitely have to travel through hierarchical symbols (matched by neural networks, of course) to get to an idea, but why can't there be branched processes?

And who says multitasking's all that grand? Don't do the dishes, BE the DOING of the dishes *grin*
 
I don't get the 'totally separate frames of mind' though. Nothing is totally separate in the brain.
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OK not as intermingled as they usually are. I mean if I'm doing something and I get angry at something else, the anger seems to bleed into the task at hand. Women seem to be able to keep the two separate for the most part. OK rapid shifts of attention might be more accurate, but for the most part one didn't have any impact on the other, which would be very unusal for me as the emotional state is generally common to both. (BTW, that was with 5mg).

B9 reported a very similar sort of experience


Isn't what what Shulgin calls the "Beth State"?
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Don't think so as the Beth state seems to be a state of emotional flatness, a lack of affect whereas what I'm trying to describe is perfectly happy and in no way emotionally empty
 
ive had this off of mda and mushrooms and i had a state on acid where i stood in the middle of a room and heard like 5 conversations at once flowing together and could follow all of them separately and easily(this was a fast paced house party). is it not the case that psychedelics stimulate more areas of the brain at once than is normally the case or that they alter the filtering of information so as to allow more absorbtion of different things at once
 
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