Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 108: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION example, one woman found herself with the outlook and general perceptions of a child of eight years. The time was significant for her as she had certain experiences associated with that age. But the sur- prising factor was the appar- ent largeness of everything around her. Her clothes seemed to be too large and she had further illusions relat- ing to the size of the hand which tended her. The doctor, she thought, was enormous. A common memory was the vision of vast areas of desert which the patients usually identified with Egypt. The actual significance of this is not known in view of the sparseness of data. In the midst of this, however, the specific repressed memory which was causing them so much trouble was recovered. _ INSIGHT One common factor with LSD-25 and mescalin was the presence of insight. The per- son taking the drug knew that their experiences and hal- lucinations were directly asso- ciated with the chemical. When they appeared to stand in some aloof position in space and watched themselves eating a meal, detached from 107 themselves, they knew that their brain biochemistry was being influenced. Researchuponthehallucino- gens is not so concerned with the fascinating results, but rather to find out more about the brain and its functioning. In this way some light will be cast upon specific mental con- ditions. Schizophrenia is a distressing state which over the years has not responded to any form of treatment. In view of the hallucinations associated with this condition, and then the similarity of the clinical picture to that of mescalin, it was not unreason- able to search for a substance which occurred in the body ' which might be the cause of schizophrenia. Adrenaline occurs in the body naturally and is stimu- lated into production almost continuously and as a natural course of events. But the question remains regarding the disposal of this adrenaline after use. It is thought that, due to a basic fault in the biochemistry, the adrenaline is oxidised to adrenochrome. To confirm the theory it has been shown that if a normal person receives an injection of adrenochrome they demonstrate many of the comiclooks.corn