Posted by notfred on February 13, 2007, at 18:52:51
In reply to Re: waaaahh :( Rozerem made me loopy! » Quintal, posted by Llurpsie_Noodle on February 13, 2007, at 18:42:11
" I guess I know what the pineal gland is, but DMT?"
Dimethyltryptamine. Its a Schedule I drug, no legal use, except:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%A3o_do_VegetalA powerful psychedelic which is also thought to be a neurotransmitter. We are not totally sure what roal it plays:
"Several speculative and as yet untested hypotheses suggest that endogenous DMT, produced in the human brain, is involved in certain psychological and neurological states. As DMT is naturally produced in small amounts in the brains and other tissues of humans, and other mammals[1], some believe it plays a role in promoting the visual effects of natural dreaming, near-death experiences and other mystical states. A biochemical mechanism for this was proposed by the medical researcher JC Callaway, who suggested in 1988 that DMT might be connected with visual dream phenomena, where brain DMT levels are periodically elevated to induce visual dreaming and possibly other natural states of mind"
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