Synonyms for psychedelic
ˌsaɪ kɪˈdɛl ɪkpsy·che·del·ic

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1. psychedelicadjective

   Synonyms:
   multi-coloured, trippy

2. psychedelicadjective

   awesome, cool, groovy

   Synonyms:
   multi-coloured, trippy

3. psychedelicadjective

   (Graphics etc.) Having bright colours, abstract shapes, etc. reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations or distortions of perception.

   Synonyms:
   multi-coloured, trippy

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1. psychedelicadjective

   producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis

   "psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and mescaline"

   Antonyms:
   colourless, unagitated, nonpsychoactive, colorless

2. psychedelicadjective

   having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states

   "a psychedelic painting"

   Antonyms:
   colourless, colorless, nonpsychoactive, unagitated

3. psychedelicadjective

   (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair

   "a psychedelic experience"

   Antonyms:
   unagitated, colourless, nonpsychoactive, colorless

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1. David Nutt:

   For the first time, we can really see what's happening in the brain during the psychedelic state, and can better understand why LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) had such a profound impact on self-awareness, this could have great implications for psychiatry.

2. Robin Carhart-Harris:

   We're beginning to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs.

3. Parker Singleton:

   Our hypothesis is that in a diseased state, your brain is going to have higher energy hills and lower energy valleys. More so than a placebo, different parts of their brain can’t talk to each other, that’s why someone stuck in a negative pattern of thought could be having a hard time — in spite of new evidence they’re not able to see that there are reasons to be happy. Psychedelic therapy could flatten out that energy landscape again and allow more information to come in. It could allow depressed or anxious people to update their models of the world.

4. Rick Doblin:

   At a time when drug policy is being reevaluated, when marijuana looks like it's on the road toward legalization, when psychedelic medicine is moving forward through the FDA and we can envision a time when psychedelics are available as prescription medicines, how ayahuasca should be handled in a regulatory context is really up in the air.

5. George Poinar Jr.:

   It indicates that psychedelic compounds were present back in the Cretaceous, what effect it had on animals is difficult to tell, but my feeling is dinosaurs definitely fed on this grass.