Of course there are movies based on that kind of storyline but I wonder how often in real life it happens?
I read that very long ago peasants had left some cheese in a cave in France and sometime later went back there and noticed ribbons of blue in the cheese. They tried it and liked the taste. It was Roquefort I believe. So that was accidental happenstance (if true) that turned out to be a really nifty discovery. I love Blue Cheese and Gorgonzola and Roquefort...blue-veined cheeses are da bomb!
Psilocybin seems to work because it temporarily rewires the brain, according to Johnson. Sections that don't normally talk to each other appear to communicate more, and parts of the brain that normally do talk to each other talk less.
Johnson says an analogy is to imagine living in a city where you suddenly stop talking to your neighbors, and start talking to people way across town you don't normally talk to. "That can lead to novel ways of looking at oneself, thinking about the world in a different way, having insightful experiences," Johnson says.
David Nutt, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, says that in addition to making connections, psilocybin also seems to break negative linkages in the brain. His studies on treating depression with psilocybin show that the drug can disrupt negative feedback networks in the brain. "That network is nonfunctioning for many hours," he says. "By breaking down those networks, there's a chance they won't re-form."
Walt O'Reagun 