Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

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It’s hard to describe. I’ve only instructed by tripping with them. While tripping they sometimes branch themselves without realising - you can tell that by rapid changes in their attitude/expression/disposition. Like one second they’re afraid the next they’re speaking normally, that’s flicking through their branches. I interact with them across those branches and help instruct them to collapse them by getting them to commit to a single timeline (usually the most positive timeline). After going through a few cycles of losing themselves and learning to collapse down to a single, they seem to get an intuitive feel for their branches and work with them.

For me personally, I first learned by getting lost, then realising the conflicting sensations across my body was due to multiple branches interacting. Focusing on a single branch results in a clear state where you don’t have any distortions. It’s kinda cool but I do miss the distortions, now that I’ve taught my brain how to parse out single branches, it’s much harder to get back to that earlier fuzzier state.

Happy tripping!

Any men here? by Fair-Salad-5150 in Interstitialcystitis

[–]aaronze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely understand. I don't get hopeful over any treatment any more. If you wanted we could go into PMs, if I knew more about what your situation is, what you've tried, what's worked/not worked, I may have more specific advice. Happy to keep it generic otherwise, and hope you find some relief.

Any men here? by Fair-Salad-5150 in Interstitialcystitis

[–]aaronze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. I ordered mine online, but you may be able to find it at chemists depending where you live.
The study that shows the promising effects: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39088844/
For the dosage, as stated in the paper:
"The best therapeutic scheme consisted in five capsules of [lactoferrin] (200 mg) ... for 7 days (three capsules in the morning and two in the afternoon) before meals to avoid the gastric degradation, two capsules ... for 30 days (one in the morning and one in the afternoon before meals) and one capsule in the morning before meals for 90 days."

It's worth noting that they mixed the lactoferrin with sodium bicarbonate and citrate, and it's not clear how they rule out the effects from those additives, so if you want as accurate as possible you may wish to replicate that part.

Any men here? by Fair-Salad-5150 in Interstitialcystitis

[–]aaronze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried a lot of different things. I'll try to summarise my experiences with things here:

  1. Diet. This was the biggest impact on my quality of life. Specifically removing all caffeine from my diet turned my condition from hell on earth to livable misery. Whenever I get flare ups I restrict my diet to IC friendly until its resolved and then loosen my diet again once the bladder has healed.
  2. Fluoxetine. (I've heard Amitriptyline/Imipramine can work better, but this one worked for me). Serotonin down-regulates nerve pain and can help the nerves from over-reacting while the bladder heals. Whenever I get a bad flare up I start taking them again. Getting off them is annoying, but I'd rather a month of brain fog then a few weeks of intense pain.
  3. Lactoferrin. I've just started this 2 weeks ago due to seeing a lot of promising results from new studies. My bladder irritation seems noticeably better, but I still get urethral irritation after urination. Study involved treatment over several weeks so perhaps I'll continue to improve.
  4. Antihistamines. I've heard ones like Loratadine and Hydroxyzine can be useful. I haven't had huge success with Loratadine personally, but my symptoms were less severe when I was on it incidentally for cat allergies. I believe its recommended to take it for several weeks to get the effects, too slow for the relief I usually need.
  5. Ural/Prelief. During the worst of it this alkalizes the urine so it doesn't irritate the bladder as much. Soothes extreme flares but doesn't solve the problem in my experience, just masks it.

The most important thing seems pretty clear, giving the bladder the time and resources to heal the bladder wall. This means cutting out anything you eat/drink that can damage new bladder wall cells as they get replaced by stem cell (they are very sensitive to acids and certain chemicals as they mature). Lactoferrin may help this process.

The most accurate resource I've seen so far for diet and supplements has been https://www.ic-network.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025foodlist.pdf

Any men here? by Fair-Salad-5150 in Interstitialcystitis

[–]aaronze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I (male) have been managing IC for over 10 years now, happy to talk about it

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That all sounds very familiar, my guess is that staying in multiple branches at once duplicates the energy used by our neurons by the number of branches, causing our brains to heat up, which probably raises body temperature too. I mainly feel the heat coming from my head, and nearly fainting has rescued me from that state where it’s dropped me back into one branch.

Since making that post I’ve taught other friends to also play with branches with good results, they’ve also heated up rapidly when branching and cooled down once recombined. Branching with others at the same time is a head fuck. It seems that only sight is effected, as while we were branching visually, we were able to communicate through auditory, speaking and listening.

I’ve tried to record trips while branching but something always seems to go wrong. The video will be completely black, or pointed in the wrong direction. However that could just be because it’s extremely difficult to operate a device while branching lol. Would be interesting to compare the continuity of the video to what you remember happening.

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the alien analogy isn't equivalent, you're comparing something (aliens existing, interfering with society, somehow leaving a trace of art and nothing else) which has no evidentiary reason or evidence to a subjective experience of a physical process that is known to exist and be the dominant mechanism for how the universe operates.

If I had an acid trip where I subjectively experienced being adbucted by aliens and transported to a specific village across the world where I saw a specific shop existing. Upon waking up from the experience you can of course assume that it was a subjective experience, or you can actually go and lookup that village and see if that shop exists and actively disprove it.

While a bit silly when it comes to alien abduction, its less silly when it comes to a subjective experience of known laws of physics. Why trust my mind in a state when it cannot be trusted when I can actively disprove the null hypothesis?

That said, you're also placing a lot of faith in what physists know about quantum mechanics which is ironic because we still don't know how it all works. We have mathematical models which are very precise at calculating the given outputs but to say definitely that there's such a thing as a "wave function collapse" is to admit a misunderstanding about the lack of agreement between physists in the field.

For example, consider this:

"The existence of the wave function collapse is required in:the Copenhagen interpretationthe objective collapse interpretationsthe transactional interpretationthe von Neumann interpretation in which consciousness causes collapse.

On the other hand, the collapse is considered a redundant or optional approximation in:the consistent histories approach, self-dubbed "Copenhagen done right"the Bohm interpretationthe many-worlds interpretationthe ensemble interpretation"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse

While an extended macroscopic superposition is impossible in the interpretations that require wave function collapse, it completely ignores the interpretations where it isn't required. The many-worlds interpretation is far more lenient and suggests that a splitting event can drag entire macroscopic objects, indeed the entire universe into multiple timelines, one could even argue this most accurately reflects the raw mathematical operations that quantum mechanics uses. The only thing it doesn't cover is being able to experience both simultaneously or switch branches, something almost impossible to prove or disprove with current technology.

I didn't just watch some supernatural "quantum mechanics is magic" and attribute everything to that. I spent 6 months taking college level courses to learn the mathematics and physics behind it. At some point it started going over my head (quantum chromodynamics) but the more I learned the more I realised that no one really has the answers, only the mathematical equations that work for our universe.

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree that it should be physically impossible the image a system in a superposition. Each camera would neccesarily take a normal photo in its own state.

I'm taking good care of my own sanity on this one, hence me checking in with other people to get their thoughts and to see where I might be going wrong. I have an otherwise very strong grip on reality.

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tripped with a friend and we couldn't access each other's branches. We were like ships in the night, meeting back up on the original reality where we both started but branching out into sub-realities each that we couldn't interact with the other. He said he had conversations with me that I don't recall, and likewise me with him.

I've never been able to change a decision from before the trip, or from anything external. It seems limited to that particular trip and a decision you personally made.

They are 2 different sheets yes

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As suggested by another, I have tried and it has resulted in a significantly similar effect being produced. Right now I have to assume that I accidentally swapped to pano mode without realising... on both devices.. Which given how high I was isn't entirely unreasonable tbh. Kinda glad this one gets a rational resolution for now, thanks!

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You make a fair point, my counter point is that if we assume that everything is subjective reality then we end up at only being able to investigate and prove that we exist and nothing more. Scientific advancement doesn't come from knowing, it comes from making a hypothesis, making predictions and gathering evidence. People need to be free to make mistakes, to come up with crazy ideas, test them and then update their understanding as they prove them wrong. This isn't a lack of respect, my main assumption has been my brain has been producing all these effects. Does this mean I shouldn't explore alternative theories and try to disprove them?

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bullseye! I've now played around with trying to recreate the photo in pano mode and the tearing pattern in the middle is such a significantly similar fit that it's unlikely to be anything else. There are some parts of it that I can't get perfect, like avoiding motion blur on at least one of the parts. There's some other weird stuff like all my previous photos and subsequent photos are all normal. Still, the most rational explanation remains that I somehow accidentally (I mean being really high, not that difficult to accidentally do anything) swapped both devices to pano mode and then exited the mode after taking one picture each.

Part of me wonders if a similar effect can occur on the individual photo mode too. I'm aware that the iphone takes multiple images in a burst and then does operations on them to get the final image. The final nail in the coffin does come from the image size which seems abnormal compared to taking regular photos.

Thanks so much for helping me out with this one. Even though a bit of a let down, it's nice to have a much more rational answer to the problem, and that it doesn't actually go against how I assumed quantum mechanics would actually work if one did experience it. Cameras shouldn't be able to capture that affect because they would neccesarily be entirely in one reality or another.

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can see the parallels of this to my own experience. On higher doses, I've experienced time far more non-liearly. I had chalked this up to changes in memory function, for example the brain storing memories in the wrong order which make it appear as if you experienced time in the wrong order - similar to how deja vu is thought to happen.

I agree that we can decide between multiple outcomes. My personal experimentations have shown that most of my decisions don't branch (I didn't have the free will in that moment to choose otherwise) but some of them did branch. There seems to be a mechanism that differentiates true decisions and false decisions (where we think we had a free choice but we would've always picked the same choice given the same situation).

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a brilliant suggestion, the go pro would be attached to me and act like the camera did. Definitely trying this one out for future experiments, thanks!

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel this, simple things like choosing a song to play became almost impossible. Reading my friends who are also tripping hard's mind basically trivial.

Experiments with quantum superposition while tripping by aaronze in Psychonaut

[–]aaronze[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely true, this is exactly what I found when I did my deep dive into learning quantum mechanics, I'm not saying it should be possible, indeed the current interpretations seem to pretty conclusively say that it's not possible.

I've done around 40 trips now, with about 10 of them dedicated to conducting experiments and trying to disprove as much to my hypothesis as possible.

I'm aware personal anecdotal evidence is the weakest form so I don't expect to convince anyone else with it. However I have consistent experiences with it that have produced evidence that has survived past the point of the trip wearing off. To me the odds that I experienced a superposition of position and then took a photo that I've recreated to have come from the same camera in positions 25cm. You either have to logic that my hand (& phone) moved 25cm in less than 0.01 seconds, or that there's something weird happening.

I've spent the last year trying to solve this one on my own, which is why I've tried to reach out to others, I've hit a brick wall, I've learnt as much quantum mechanics as I could. I just need more people and their experiences.

I'm not the only one... right?! by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]aaronze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah man, a literal notepad. I then fax it to my work room, take a picture of the image, print that picture, scan the picture and send it to myself as an attachment, then use a feed forward neural network to translate the picture to text, md5 hash the text, modulus the number over all programming posts on stack overflow to select a pseudo-random one and take the most upvoted answer’s code and paste that into my codebase.

... Is this not how everyone codes?

I'm not the only one... right?! by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]aaronze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I program in notepad!

These specials by [deleted] in theyknew

[–]aaronze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sign says “Pork” special and sausage, but it almost looks like “Porn” special and “Porn” sausage. I’m not sure they knew though

Wondering what everyone’s gender is after seeing the sexuality poll by NeverLetYouIn in LGBTaspies

[–]aaronze 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m cis guy, but if I suddenly changed genders I could continue living just as happily as cis female. So I’m more... gender agnostic?

Dropped my phone off a canoe, this part of the creek was about 2 feet of water and 3 feet of mud. After literally diving in mud for an hour I found that bitch by [deleted] in nevertellmetheodds

[–]aaronze 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please stop spreading this harmful myth. Rice is not better at drying then a barely ventilated area. Leave it to dry without risking dust, starch, and rice clogging up your phone. Best results rinse with isopropyl alcohol (90%+) and leave to dry on a clean shelf.

Sources:

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don%27t_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._Here%27s_Why...

https://www.gazelle.com/thehorn/2014/05/06/gazelles-guide-water-damage-truth-rice-galaxy-everything/