🎨 Picture this: An artist sits in a room, pencil in hand. He’s trained to capture what he sees…

But today, reality won’t sit still. A tab of LSD (presumed to be 100μg) dissolves on the artist's tongue, and over the next few hours, they sketch the subject as their perception shifts, distorts, and reconfigures.

This was a 1950s experiment, a glimpse into the untamed potential of the mind under psychedelics. What starts as a careful portrait study soon transforms - each sketch revealing a new way of seeing, a shift in awareness. But what’s really happening? Are we watching perception unravel, or is he peeling back layers of reality we rarely notice?

These sketches may not be masterpieces, but they represent something bigger - how a single experience can stretch the boundaries of thought. Creativity isn’t just about talent; it’s about perspective. And when the mind steps outside its usual patterns, new possibilities emerge… even long after the psychedelic experience has come to an end.

A 2022 study from the University of California, Santa Barbara, backs this up. Researchers found that LSD enhanced divergent thinking, the ability to break free from rigid thought patterns and explore unconventional ideas. Participants didn’t just come up with more ideas; they thought in ways that felt freer, more open-ended, and less constrained by the familiar.

So the real question isn’t whether LSD makes you more creative. It’s this: What else is your mind capable of - if only you let it roam?

While you’re at it, take a deeper look here into this experiment. The artist's identity remains unknown, but it's believed that the researcher behind the experiment was Oscar Janiger, a University of California-Irvine psychiatrist renowned for his LSD studies.

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