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The oneirogen hypothesis: modeling the hallucinatory effects of classical psychedelics in terms of replay-dependent plasticity mechanisms

Classical psychedelics induce complex visual hallucinations in humans, generating percepts that are coherent at a low level, but which have surreal, dream-like qualities at a high level. While there a...

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2. We put forward the ‘Oneirogen Hypothesis,’ arguing that psychedelics cause hallucinations because they hijack a system ordinarily used for learning in the brain.