Default Mode Network
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Bryan Johnson: 5-MeO-DMT annihilates the default mode network compared to psilocybin
“Five MEO DMT compared to psilocybin, like just absolutely like blasted clean. My default mode network. It felt like psilocybin dampens it, like it softens it, but this thing just annihilated my default mode network.”
Sanchez: Asking questions immediately halts the listener's default mode network
“And questions shut that down instantly. It like immediately forces the brain to come into the present moment, whether it wants to or not. And this is how you pull anyone back into the conversation, even if they were drifting.”
Strauss: Classical psychedelics downregulate default mode network and enable cross-brain communication
“Classical psychedelics seem to do a few things. The first thing they do is they seem to Downregulate the default mode network. And so the default mode network, which is responsible for sort of inhibiting connections between parts of the brain that don't normal…”
Kelly: Glimpsing balances default mode network and triggers synchronized gamma brainwaves
“And it actually, when you're in an fMRI, which I've been, it balances, if you keep going, it'll balance your default mode network and your task mode network. It will open your parietal lobe. It'll not only calm you, moving you from beta to alpha, but it'll act…”
Oakley: Learning requires alternating between focused and diffuse modes of thinking
“And that learning involves going back and forth between these two different modes. And if you don't get something the first time, guess what? That's okay. If you don't get it when you're sitting there focusing the first time, Back off, you know, after you focu…”