Anesthetics Quote by Stuart Hameroff

Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good,…

— Moby

Drugs act as sedative, they make one's mind semi-conscious.

— Anonymous

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't…

— Frederick Lenz

“There are no specific memories of the first time I used ketamine, which was around age 17 or 18. The strongest recollection of ketamine…

— Brandon Scott Gorrell

“In addition to localized neural networks, hallucinogenic drugs have been documented to trigger such preternatural experiences, such as the sense of floating and flying…

— Michael Shermer

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing.…

— Stanislav Grof

“If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to…

— Anne Rice

“These three ingredients—focusing on conscious access, manipulating conscious perception, and carefully recording introspection—have transformed the study of consciousness into a normal experimental science.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“• Conscious: “to be aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings” • Consciousness: “the state of being conscious.” According to this, each one…

— L. Emerson Ferrell

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that…

— Dennis McKenna

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules…

— Deepak Chopra