PSYCHEDELICS AND VR FEATURE
Psychologists are exploring ways of treating mental health disorders by combining psychedelics and virtual reality
How would you go about changing your reality? There are many options available to the modern human, with varying degrees of permanence and legality. But perhaps the simplest method is to find a place where reality is different to what you're used to, and go there.
I tried this option in November 2022, by attending the Wonderland International Psychedelics conference and exhibition in Miami.
As a Welsh neuroscientist from the Cardiff suburbs, with no involvement with/experience of class-A drugs, exploring an international conference dedicated to them in the heart of an humid US city was, to put it mildly, outside my usual comfort zone.
I was, admittedly, already aware of the ever increasing evidence for the enormous potential of psychedelics to treat multiple mental health conditions, hence I was keen to attend the event. What I wasn't aware of, however, was the industry that's built up around them as a result, which has lead to many people taking psychedelics in many intriguing (if sometimes baffling) directions.
One that caught my eye at Wonderland was by Enosis Therapeutics, who generously allowed me to experience their
