No, DMT and lasers won’t reveal the mysteries of the universe

In 2024, a trailer called The Discovery spread around the psychedelic community. In this video, Danny Goler claimed that by looking at the refracted light of a red laser, one could see and unlock an underlying ‘matrix’ code of the universe that proves life is a simulation. This would be fantastic if it were true, entire textbooks on physics would need to be immediately rewritten to accommodate this new discovery. Fortunately, this is nonsensical and untrue – yet many in the psychedelic field still hold on to the idea of DMT unlocking some otherworldly realm. By using neuroscience and physics, we will debunk this claim (and a few others) of red laser light and DMT being used as a portal to another dimension.

Zeus Tipado is a Neuropsychopharmacology PhD candidate at Maastricht University focusing on researching the brain while under DMT inside virtual/extended reality. He’s using fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy) to give humanity its first glimpse on brain energy distribution and perceptual alterations in the visual cortex during this unique psychedelic process. Unlike the current trend of psychedelic research that investigates how psychedelics can be used to help maladaptive behaviors like depression and anxiety, Zeus is focusing on the perceptual experience of a psychedelic trip and analyzing human brain activity while in these altered states of subjective consciousness. Zeus is incorporating extended reality technology from Subpac and HTC to modulate perceptual information received within a psychedelic trip and explore the corresponding brain activity through cerebral blood oxygenation levels.

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