What is Scentshroom ?
Project outline
Traditionally, pharmaceutical drugs change our chemistry, our nature and reality. They sometimes make our bodies more hostile as environments for illnesses and infections to flourish, sometimes more in tune with what are considered ‘normal’ chemical balances in healthy humans. They counteract toxins, can be highly toxic themselves, they can disguise pain, put us to sleep, wake us up, make us care less, make us care more. They allow us to experience euphoria regardless of our reality, they can be used to make us stronger, thinner, fatter, better at sports, less passive, more passive. In a nutshell, they are able to alter our perception of, response to, and experience of reality itself.
There has to be a clear, imaginative, critically engaging and intellectually compelling concept for the drug.
Exploring the subject, drug, further I will find that the potential is fairly unlimited— due to rapid advances in technology and understanding—and there are rich opportunities to create highly imaginative, conceptually interesting, critically reflective, innovative focuss.
Objective
Sett the interesting new phenomenon that will impact human society in some way, for good, or bad, or perhaps not so clearly one or other. The phenomenon in question is a brand-new drug. My fictitious drug; the style and form of the story telling; the conceptual and critical aspects of the work; and the presentation of the entire experience should all be acting in collusion.
Modern Problem of Addiction
Various kinds of addiction problem such as workaholic, shopping addiction, social media addiction, cell phone addiction.. etc.. caused by our society system and capitalism boost addiction problem more. Society of capitalism keeps creating and reproducing human desire. We are living in the addicted society, the feeling of “fear” prevents us to recognize what the true desire of human being, people are looking for a substitute obsessively, and this is an addiction. Various kinds of addiction problem such as workaholic, shopping addiction, social media addiction, cell phone addiction.. etc.. caused by our society system and capitalism boost addiction problem more. Society of capitalism keeps creating and reproducing human desire.
"Psilocybin"
Research
What’s Psilocybin:
In the 1950s, it was known that they ate Psilocybe mushrooms, a kind of clown mushroom, before consciousness. Hoffman, who received mushrooms from a collector, succeeded in separating the active ingredients in 1958 and named them psilocybin. Interestingly, the structure of psilocybin was quite similar to that of LSD. In 1958, Albert Hoffman separated the active ingredient from the Psilocybe, a clown mushroom native to Mexico, and named it psilocybin.
Why Prohibited :
Although those are effective to various mental diseases, the government, which was looking for a way to wipe out hippies who were leading opposition to the Vietnam War at the time, targeted LSDs that hippies take “to expand consciousness to a higher level” as a symbol of anti-culture.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intervened to illegalize LSD, and all kinds of rumors surrounding LSD began to circulate. The U.S. government designated LSD and psilocybin as first-class drugs in 1970 and many countries followed. Psychedelics completely disappeared in the United States. In fact, prejudice and bad perception are stigmatized in drugs such as LSD and psilocybin.
Psilocybin working in brain :
Psilocybin completely changes consciousness and readjusts the brain, allowing new connections between brain nerves and easier connections between nerves. These changes do not occur arbitrarily, but nerves take into account the new order and bring new perspectives on brain clarity, old thinking, and new thinking. Next, such an effect is combined with the activation of the hippocampus of the cerebral temporal lobe and the anterior target cortex that scientists discovered to create emotions and make them dream. People are often said to fall into a state of dreaming when taking Psilocybin. The part of brain that makes you feel the emotions works together, and the part that makes you feel self-conscious becomes quiet. Psychedelic’s idea is essentially to shake the brain a little bit. This is how psilocybin works as creative momennt.
How Psilocybin works as Medicine :
1. Addiction is a self-destructive symptom in which the brain is hardened against a specific thing and depressed person’s brain works similar to the addicted person’s brain as both are obsessed with narrow-minded and obsessive thoughts.
2. People who have addiction or depression has strong and high DMN (DMN: plays a role in maintaining self-identity/ DMN is a strong centralized country of human adults). They are immersed into something and hard to get out of from it. The greater the dominance of DMN, the lower the entropy (degree of randomness of energy in system) of the brain, and those lower entropy brain stays in rigid states (the extremes are depression, addiction, and compulsion).
3. However, Psilocybin reduces the activity of the default mode network, DMN. When DMN’s dominance decreases, the entropy of the brain rises, which makes a person random and flexible, which is similar to returning to the states that the human DMS developed yet or returning the brain state of distant ancestors in the past, nature. This flexible states allows addicted or depressed people to broaden the perspective by widening brain’s field of view.
4. As a result, the existing perception that gave absolute value to the addicted object collapses. Finally, they will lose interest in the subject of addiction, so they can easily get out of addiction or depression. = it shakes the brain little bit
Summary
Addicted/ Depressed states :
Human grows > Self-identity grows = DMN grows/ increase = entropy of brain decrease > increase of self - immersed or obsessed with something
= Rigid brain
vs
After psilocybin states :
DMN Decrease = Entropy of the brain increase > Closer to the state of nature = self- Immersed x, Obsession x > Existing perception collapsed > Getting out of addiction or depression
= Flexible brain
Further Research of Psilocybin
Detail of Scentshroom
What issues does the drug respond to? :
It respose to the problem of addiction in modern society.
What is the role of ScentShroom? :
Able to open people mind by decreasing the activity of the Default Mode Network (DMN)
- it deactivates existed desire- Let the addiction go
Why it is required? :
Because the world is full of addiction, force to become addicted in order to maintain capitalist society.
What is human need? :
Human need to get out of addicted things as the society is full of addiction such as social media, cell phone, youtube, tiktok, work, tabacco, drug, alchohol, or depression etc...
For whom? :
People who are suffering addiction or stuck with something
What’s the long term/ short term effect? :
In the short term, it is able to treat various addiction problem that hasn’t been cured. People are free with what they have suffered. The reputation of medicine increase and become popular. As their popularity increases, medical industry tries to make money through psilocybin and using other kinds of drug. In the long term, as boundaries and negative perceptions of psychedelic drugs collapse, other similar psychedelic drugs become approachable, starting with Magic Mushroom containing psilocybin. People gradually acquire illegal drugs in a variety of unauthorized routes and begin to abuse them. Although drugs are used in order to get out of addiction, but eventually becomes a society that relies on drugs and becomes addicted to drugs. Drugs confuse society and the government prohibits drugs again. The other possible result is that it
What’s possible side effects? :
Blood pressure and heart rate could be increase.
Headache may occur.
Caution :
Have to be monitored while using it.
Need to be relaxed while using it.
Avoid to use who has a history of schizophrenia.
Goal :
Cure patients who suffer addiction problem
Change the impression of psilocybin to be more welcoming.
Scenario
We are living in the addicted society, the feeling of “fear” prevents us to recognize what the true desire of human being, people are looking for a substitute obsessively, and this is an addiction. Various kinds of addiction problem such as workaholic, shopping addiction, social media addiction, cell phone addiction.. etc.. caused by our society system and capitalism boost addiction problem more. Society of capitalism keeps creating and reproducing human desire. Once this desire stops or produces temporarily, capitalism system will collapse, so human desire must be reproduced infinitely. Eventually, capital satisfies human’s true/internal desire that civilized society taken away from human through substitute/products. Solution for this addiction problem in our society is that people start to admit that they are addicted. For this, people need to aim healthy and happy society by drastic change of thinking, orienting possession than existence, process than final, and internal than external.
The drug Scentshroom helps people to get out of various modern society’s addiction problem, drug and non-drug disorder. Basically Scentshroom is an olfactory drug that combines Psylocybin which is one of the main component of magic mushroom with Aroma therapy method. By taking the aroma therapy it reduces the danger of hallucinations and having bad trip, reducing the anxiety, stress and headache. Also, by adding anti-adrenergic components to reduce the danger of side effect such as heart rate, blood pressure increase. Importantly, using small dose of Psilocybin chemical, it makes possible to escape from addictive and obsessive thoughts which is already existed by awakening and leading in different directions. Scentshroom is able to opens people thought by decreasing the activity of the DMN (Default Mode Network) when they exposed for about 15~20 minutes. It deactivates the human desire as breaking down exists connectivity and connects the different part of the brain. The perception altered as brain becoming diverse and dynamic. Finally, it decrease or even disappears the existed obsessive thought.
However, as the reputation for the effectiveness of the drug rises, people begin to seek it on illegal routes and consume it personally without a prescription. More and more people have consumed more than a set dose to achieve greater effects. Overdose of these drugs had serious side effects. When drugs are not managed so that society begins to collapse, the world banned drugs again to prevent further greater risks. Just like psylocibin was prohibited in 1960 despite its numerous utility, it eventually went through the same process like in the past. Even if there is an ideal drug that people in the world can escape from addiction, people’s obsession and greed ruin it.
