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intensely_human,

Well let me ask you this: how specifically would it not be okay?

intensely_human,

You have vivid dreams for a few days. It’s just a matter of your hormones equalizing, so it doesn’t take a really long time.

Similar timeframe to getting over nicotine withdrawal which is a few days to a week, which is basically the time it takes your brain to alter its calibration.

intensely_human,

What did you dream last night?

intensely_human,

What are your nightmares about?

intensely_human,

Are you chronically dehydrated?

intensely_human,

So by inspecting your memory you see more of a particular thing happening … and your explanatory model is the memories of it happening in the other context just got erased?

What makes you suspect they’re there but forgotten, instead of just absent?

intensely_human,

Oh my god the arrogance of professionals.

Just because you know a lot does not mean you know everything. Making statements of the form “X doesn’t happen” is foolish.

intensely_human,

Only if the person being asked is compelled to answer.

intensely_human,

And I happen to know from my experience that it does.

One example of a phenomenon happening is sufficient evidence to overturn claims of the form “X doesn’t happen”.

If your education convinced you that you can eliminate the possibility of things happening entirely, then you were mis-educated.

intensely_human,

The claim I’m saying is inaccurate is this:

That little factoid is a falsehood

… which referred to OP’s implication that weed makes you not dream, followed by intense dreams when weed is discontinued.

The “factoid” is true because it’s happened to me repeatedly.

intensely_human,

That is the death of capitalism. That’s capitalism (based on free markets) devolving into oligopoly (based on regulatory capture and tightly-restricted markets).

Capitalism doesn’t last any better than any other institution. It degrades into something else. The thing it degrades into is a centrally-controlled market, similar to what you find in socialism.

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