A quick follow up to 'visual weirdness' (my previous post)

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It seems that up to 8% of brain injury sufferers have what is known as hallucinations, or what has been described as neuro-psychotic episodes. It's not clear whether these are internal or external manifestations, ie seen in the head/brain or outside in the environment. There has been a few feeble attempts to work out the brain chemistry involved, however no conclusions have been published and shared on the open web.

There are no records of the characteristics of these hallucinatory states that I can find in the medical publications available on the open web.

I would suggest that different chemicals in the brain act in different ways and result in characteristic traits that are specific to each chemical, there are probably cross over factors that are commonly shared but certain indicators would be specific to a specific chemical.

As I said above they are all catergorised under the umbrella heading of neuro-psychosis.

Are these chemicals released due to damage, many suffers experience these conditions weeks or months after the actual injury, myself included- 2 months after. The human body is an incredible thing and does not, it seem, act randomly. Other injuries in any part of the body produces a response to heal and repair damage and fight off infection and function to revitalise damage. Why would it be any different in the brain and not only repair physical damage and function but also psychological damage.

It would be interesting to see if these hallucinatory states are in fact part of the healing process. A simplistic example would be to take a suit of cards out of a pack, shuffle them and turn over the first card. Is it the ace, there's a one in thirteen chance, if not shuffle again until the ace comes first and keep doing this until the whole suit is layed out in order. Eventually it will get there. In the brain chemicals would be part of a much more sofisticated process in repairing and or rerouting information to get the most from cognitive and other functions.

As I said in my previous post I thought my 'fantastical imagery' was due to a chemical called DMT. I say this because it fits all the descriptions revealed by people experimenting with the drug. It has the signature characteristics.

So this chemical is thought to be secreted by the pineal gland, all the 4-8% mentioned above had visual problems, affected by light, the pineal gland responds to light for sleep patterns etc so, it could be a contributing factor in the release of the chemical.

The repair of the brain comes under the heading neuro-plasticity. I have found some information on the web of research being carried out into the effects of neuro-plasticity in response to the action of DMT. This is UK based research.

The link. beckleyfoundation.org/2017/...

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I would happily donate my living body for research if you he could determine the problem