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Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

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557 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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tavavex ◴[28 Aug 25 06:29 UTC] No.45049085[source]▶
This is a really strange comment section. The average person sharing their experiences seems very unlike the average HN user.

I feel like I can barely relate to those people, and understanding what they're saying is nigh impossible. The definitions of most things are really vague - even the article of this thread only defines breathwork as "cyclic breathing without pausing, accompanied by progressively evocative music". So... faster breathing while intensifying music is playing?

One issue for me is how anything connected to these topics seems to attract a healthy mix of rational observation, psychedelic users and religious people (old and new). Deciphering which is which is really difficult without already having a foot in the door on this topic.

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keyle ◴[28 Aug 25 06:41 UTC] No.45049150[source]▶
I was just going to post that the comment section is gone full bozo today.
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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[28 Aug 25 12:09 UTC] No.45051178[source]▶
And yet, not unusual; some years ago there were posts about nutrition fairly frequently, when Soylent was being developed and SF was high on investor money being thrown around left right and center. People came out and shared their personal experiences with regards to health, diet and nutrition, with the Soylent developer leading the effort in min/maxing food and eating down to a convenient shake, and its proponents sharing their experiences in weight loss, time min/maxing, how food is boring and a distraction, etc. A lot of people had a Steve Jobs-like mentality, believing that eating, thinking about what to eat, etc is a distraction from what they think is Actually Important. Famously Steve Jobs wore the same outfit all the time so he didn't have to think about what to wear.

Some time later it was about microdosing LSD and nootropics.