Personal meaning intensification
Personal meaning enhancement is a cognitive effect which can be described as the experience of a significantly increased sense of personal meaning becoming associated with external stimuli. For example, one may feel that songs, general media or events relate to their life in a meaningful and distinct manner. This can occur even if the content of the media or event would not have been interpreted in this way if the person was sober.
It also remains as a strong and well defined sense of personal meaning despite logically knowing that the content or event was not created specifically for them. If one begins to believe that the thing they are deriving personal meaning from was literally created specifically for them, this becomes what is known as a "delusion of reference".[1][2]
Psychoactive substances
Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:
- 1B-LSD
- 1P-LSD
- 1V-LSD
- 1cP-LSD
- 2C-P
- 6-APB
- AB-FUBINACA
- ALD-52
- Ayahuasca
- Cannabis
- DOI
- DPT
- Dextromethorphan
- Ephenidine
- HXE
- LSD
- Memantine
- Mescaline
- Methoxetamine
See also
- Responsible use
- Subjective effects index
- Psychedelics - Subjective effects
- Stimulants - Subjective effects
- ↑ Understanding delusions | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234155
- ↑ Ideas of Reference (psychcentral encyclopedia) | http://psychcentral.com/encyclopedia/ideas-of-reference/