Individual Differences in Mystical-Type Experience Intensity During Psychedelic VirtualReality in Recent Psychedelic Users: Preparatory Intention and ExploratoryPsychophysiological Correlates
Jakub Schimmelpfennig, Ewa Tużnik, Anna Duszyk-Bogorodzka et al. preprint
The study examined whether immersive virtual reality (VR) can non-pharmacologically induce psychedelic-like altered states and what predicts their intensity. Fifty-seven adults who had used classic psychedelic within the previous six months completed neutraland psychedelic VR conditions in randomized order. Relative to neutral VR, psychedelic VR elicited higher mystical-type experience...