I went through a long bout of trying to figure out why the heck I'm not nearly as sensitive as many of my brethern when it came to breaking through. It wasn't just with the spice, it seemed to be across the board with other medicines and even with feeling the effects of regular supplemental herbs.

Working in the natural health field and coming into contact with a lot of people every day, I tried to find some commonality in people who could easily feel the effects of supplemental herbs.

I quickly ruled out a lot of things, body weight, gender, past usage history. I was stumped until I read Tony Wright's Left in the Dark and started thinking in terms of the two hemispheres of the brain.

Two of the major revelations were: 1) tryptamines work on the right hemisphere and 2) the longer you're awake, the more tired your left hemisphere gets, and starts giving up more control to the right hemisphere, which is in timelessness and doesn't need to sleep. (this is why it's easier to be creative at night)

Although I have my right-brained moments, I've always been far more left-brained dominate. My theory was that if my inability to break through was due to my overactive left brain, then I'd have a much better chance at it if I tried it late at night, rather then in early afternoon like I'd been doing.

It was jackpot city. The effects were WAY stronger late at night. I had equally ridiculous results experimenting with some of the Larry, whereas in the afternoon five liquid drops had some effect, at night 3 liquid drops flat out kicked my ass.

This is why, I'm sure, traditionally all (to the best of my knowledge) indigenous ceremonies take place at night. More right brained action, less left brained action.

Anyone else feel such a major difference in the time of day?

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JM

Sounds like a reasonable theory to me. I've never actually heard about the right/left hemisphere sleep thing, but I plan on looking up this Tony Wright guy.

Makes you wonder why people go to church on Sunday mornings.

Never thought of that, that's HILARIOUS!

Of course, that's when the left brain is most rested, so there will be less "thinking outside the box."

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Interesting idea. I've definitely had much more profound trips during the night hours, but then again thats usually when i did it. The same doses taken at night did seem to get me deeper but this could be due to a bunch of factors. Left in the dark is in the mail now though so i'm even more excited to see what they've come up with!

Is it proven that tryptamines work on the right hemisphere? I've never heard that but its really intruiging, especially if the right brain is more active at night since it correlates with my experiences. I enter much more creative and open minded states in the late hours without taking anything and its usually when i get most of my work done. I have definitely noticed this night thing though and have entered alot of unordinary(and i guess you could say right-brain) states at night without drugs. Like very blissful states with more gestalting "epiphanies", visuals, and I've noticed that these are VERY different from what I usually experience during the day..So i wouldn't be suprised if its easier for many people to breakthrough at night. This could just depend on the individual though I don't know, or maybe because you thought it would work it had a placebo effect and you were through. It'd be interesting to here what other people can say about this!

In the book he discusses a study that was done (obviously a number of years ago) where people who were missing one hemisphere of their brain, were given lsd.

The people who were missing their left hemisphere, but still had their right had the "normal" responses. The people who were missing their right and had only the left had NO response at all.

That study is the basis for his reasoning that lsd, and probably other trypamines work on the right hemisphere. When I read this, it really resonated as truth, and my experiments based on that were all more successful then I would had anticipated.

I remember back in junior high school when I did a science report on human biorhythmns, there was a chart in one of the books saying the ideal times to do certain activities and they had creative activities, art, music, etc. listed as best done late at night.

So when I read the part on the left brain getting tired, again, it just all made sense.

It's such an amazing book, I'm going to have to reread it soon.

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JM

I don't think that these substances work on only one hemnisphere.

The best state of mind you can reach is when both hemnisphere's are in full harmony.

Brainscans reveal that meditation leads automatically to this full harmonic state of balance.

You can do a test to see whether this is true. You can activate each brain side with special breathing technique's. Breath through only one nostril for a few minute's and the opposite brain side will be activated.

You can balance both brain side's with either meditation or listening to binaural beat's.

But i agree that nighttime is absolutely the best time for journying.