Man guys, I feel crappy. Rather crappy anyway. During the Burn, the roof of my mouth got all swollen, not sure why. It's happened to me before but never this bad or for this long. It hurts to use suction with my mouth, hurts to swallow, hurts to eat, but not my throat, it's specifically these 2 swollen places on the roof of my mouth. I also have a somewhat runny nose and just feel kinda sick, or maybe just really tired (definitely tired but it could be just exhaustion). I looked it up, and the roof of your mouth can become swollen due to extreme sweating in high heat for prolonged periods of time which definitely happened this weekend as it was about 100 degrees and relentlessly sunny the whole time. I drank a lot of water but the night before it got swollen I drank a whole lot and stopped drinking water until the morning, and danced a lot. It said online that if the pain/swelling doesn't stop within 3 days to a week, you should be concerned and go to a doctor. Today is the 4th day now and it's not really better, maybe slightly. So it kinda concerns me. There are some random weird things that can cause roof of the mouth swelling, including HPV and mouth cancer. So I'm really just hoping it goes away really soon. It also makes it really hard to eat.
So I was wondering what all you psychonauts best theory of what reality is. Like what the hell is happening here.
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What's your guys position? I personally have no clue.
First of all I'll say I also have no clue and psychedelics have helped me to see that none of us ever really will, and that anyone claiming to know definitive answers for 100% sure needs to get their head out of their ass.
That being said, my view aligns similarly to what it sounds like 4-AcO-DMT showed you. I have been shown by mushrooms, other tryptamines and 2C-E experiences which have informed my opinion. Basically all of subjective experience in the universe is a dream. The universe exists alone as a point of consciousness in a dimensionless void. The reason for existence is that it is immensely lonely and boring existing alone in a dimensionless void, so the universe caused (or maybe didn't cause but it's just a property of existence, I don't know) the dream to occur. We are all the universe, the same point of awareness, experiencing itself subjectively on many levels, in an infinity of different perspectives. Time seems to pass but in reality at the highest level, all of existence at every point in the spacetime dimensional axes is being experienced simultaneously in one infinite moment.
All of this suggests that the point of existence is to experience infinity collectively. As such, the point to each of us individually is whatever we make of it. There is no overarching morality or goal or afterlife or anything like that. Each of us fulfills the role that we fulfill, and collectively we (the universe) experience everything there is to experience. Some people find this to be a negative idea that is frightening, but I find it liberating. It means that the point is to live life to the fullest according to your drives. It means that joy is possible and that's amazing, and it means that suffering is possible and it, too, is part of the point. It helps me to put things into perspective. It both minimizes and maximizes the importance of any one life.