• monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      My brain would refuse to produce dopamine. I would just get sleepy and spend all day in bed anyway. “I’m not just a worthless piece of shit, I’m now a flying worthless piece of shit.”

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      If I don’t go for runs why do I think I would go for flights. It would just add another layer of shame and guilt onto everything I do. “I’m lying in bed when I should be out flying rn.”

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    I get that this is a meme but I want to say something.

    Taking straight dopamine would likely not make you happy and could actually fuck you up (assuming it even crossed the blood brain barrier).

    Dopamine is used in the reward pathway but it’s also used in lots of other parts of the brain and body which is why you really don’t want to take it raw but instead take chemicals that stimulate its production within the reward pathway.

    When dopamine is injected it can help with blood flow when someone is in shock. However, that’s in the microgram range and even those dosages can cause some extreme vasoconstriction leading to possible damage from ischemia.

    Assuming someone took a large dose of it, they could possibly end up losing limbs assuming they didn’t have a heart attack and die before the hypoxia started killing cells in their extremities.

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    4 days ago

    Invisibility. Always invisibility, I could have some fun with that. Reading minds would make me paranoid about everything & end up sending me batshit insane. I’d end up in a psych ward.

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    I’ll take the reading minds assuming that I can control it because then the thing that saps my dopamine, which is the worry that everybody around me hates me, could be dispelled by actually reading the minds of the people I think are hating me to find out that they don’t actually hate me.

    And the ones that do hate me, I’ll read their minds and uncover their darkest secrets and destroy them, which will also give me dopamine.

    It’s a win-win.

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      I think it would be difficult to decipher what someone else is thinking, it really feels like people have a wide array of ways to think!

      Would be eye opening though just trying to sort through the noise of someone else’s thoughts.

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        I’m assuming that the pill would take care of all of that and it would just work the way I wanted it to.