How To Trick Your Brain To See Reality

And expanding your consciousness by doing so

Seeing reality beyond the veil

I wonder: do I see reality as it is?

Why shouldn’t I? My body is equipped with the finest tools evolution could give me to help me navigate this world. Besides, where the senses fail, the brain steps in to help us piece reality together. Right?

Well… Maybe not.

Under My Nose

I told before in another article how my first psychedelic experience — LSD — opened my eyes to the possibility that there are different ways of seeing the world.

Growing up, I treated the 5 senses as royalty in the sense that I believed that what I saw, heard, smelt and felt was reality.

At the time, I had a dog called Jose, and I started to think…

— My eyes contain three pigments that detect three different ranges of electromagnetic frequencies. In comparison with dogs — who have two pigments —, the perception of color is totally different.

Comparing noses, dogs use the smell to navigate their environment, and are able to detect much lower amounts of molecules in the air than humans. Simillarly, with hearing; Dogs are more sensitive to sound and can detect a broader range of sounds, revealing a world that is invisible to…