Magic mushrooms can change your personality

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Don't grow up, it's a trap! How many time have you heard a sentence like this? And more: how many time have you think this by your self? To become an adult sucks, and you know it. Responsibilities, problems, changes, boredom, work, money, more work... To being an adult sometimes is like to be in a jail. And science knows it. But we now know a secret: magic mushrooms can change your personality.

The human beings, because our nervous system, are plastic beings that can specially change with experiences. Other animals can but we are the real masters of this particular and useful skill: brain plasticity. Experiences change us and make us a most efficient machine to live in our environment.

Neuro science has shown us how this changes occur and why are the principal causes of this changes. But neuroscience has shown us too that this particular skill, our brain plasticity, has an expiration date. When we're kids, this skill is in its glory, but it expires as the years pass. In adulthood we've practically lost the most of our brain plasticity. That's why adults are more rigid, more severe, less prone to changes, surprises and new events. That's why the adults suck.

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But adulthood is not a dark dead end. We can restart with the helping hand of magic mushrooms. Magic mushrooms can change your personality.

Magic mushrooms can change your personality

A scientific study have shed some light on our dark adult lives.  Katherine MacLean, a postdoctoral researcher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and her colleagues asked themselves if magic mushrooms can change personality during  adulthood. It is know that personality rarely changes much after the age of 25 to 30, but they wanted to study this hypothesis: the mystic experiences of taking magic mushrooms can change you in a good direction. Magic mushrooms can change your personality.

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The examined questionnaires from 51 people who had taken psilocybin as part of two separate Johns Hopkins studies. The volunteers were all new to hallucinogenic drugs. They took a questionnaire about their personality before and after of taking psilocybe cubensis mushrooms.

Unexpectedly, the questionnaires revealed that the personality of the volunteers changed in spite of their age. And how their personality change? The major results show an increase of the openness dimension of their personality. They've become more open adults. Better adults! While other aspects of personality stayed the same, openness increased after a psilocybin experience and the effect was especially strong for those who reported a "mystical" trip from their magic mushrooms dose. These mystical trips were profound and full of consciousness, with feelings of joy and and peace.

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And more to say! Magic mushrooms can change your personality and this effect is a long term effect! After 14 months, the volunteers again did the personality tests and, yes, the results were approximately the same than months before. The volunteers who experienced mystical trips keep being more creative and open months after their trip.

In short: Magic mushrooms CAN change your personality, and this is awesome!

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Source: Livescience