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I think its also because carbs give you that sugar high. There's actual chemicals that it causes the body to release that make you feel euphoric. But if your asking why we crave sweets on a subconscious level; after a 5 meo trip where I was living through extreme suffering, I had an insight that we are all just really alone in this world, and we crave comfort and security. That's why people usually have mommy or daddy issues, they seek comfort in this world. Well sugar acts as a temporary blanket for our feelings, smothering it in feel good chemicals. That's why they call it comfort food. It can temporarily stave off the feeling of lack or insecurity and loneliness.

@Holygrail I think there are things that are objectively wholesome and unwholesome. Wholesome things produce wholesome mindstates like joy, bliss, compassion and contentment, while unwholesome things produce unwholesome mindstates like greed, hatred, and lust. While we should develop compassion towards all things, even those that cause revulsion, I think its important to know the difference and not just accept everything as good. If something is ugly and repulsive we should know it as such, but not let it affect our own wholesome mindstates.

@Salvijus do you think psychedelics harm to energy body/channels? Some psychics say they do,, some say they open them. I'm curious to know if they're harmful or not

The illusion is the mind. You have an idea of the mind so you think there is a continuous consciousness that makes up "you." When in reality there are only mind moments that arise and perish, but because of ignorance you think it is your consciousness. So if you can penetrate the Truth, you will know there is no mind, and will be free from craving states of consciousness which will free you from the cycle of death and rebirth.

@RMQualtrough well without ego you cannot identify with suffering. This is the ultimate state in Buddhism. I want to make an end of suffering. Since I have access to some psychedelics atm I was curious as to if it would help the process or is it just a temporary state it invokes. Because I don't use them in a recreational sense, I just wonder how useful they are on the path. From what it seems like, the most effective way is to make sure to integrate new routines after the trip while you still have that "reset" of the nervous system that psychedelics give you. So whatever you take away from the trip, you need to integrate it into your life or you just fall back to old patterns and the trip will just be a "memory." For me, I don't feel too intimidated by any fearful experience that can arise, I mainly worry if there's any physiological damage that can be done, like I balancing neurochemicals or creating some kind of disturbance in energy flow of the body. Some psychics say it creates energetic blockages some say it frees blockages so who knows. My 5 meo trip was suffering, but the key is to surrender and just accept what will happen, with the knowledge that no real harm will come to you. I think if you have this mindset the bad part of the trip will not last long and you'll be sucked into that bliss oneness state. Some people jump straight into that bliss state without touching the fear part. But even if you do experience the fear part, if you understand it wasnt "real" then you recover pretty fast. It's all about acceptance of the experience that determines a good or bad trip I think. If you try to resist wherever it's taking you, it will create more and more bad feelings. If you can just flow with the experience and just accept it as an experience, it'll take you to good states. I recently read the psychedelic experience by Tim leary and the way he explains his method for using lsd is pretty good. Basically if you try to resist where it's taking you, you will encounter more hardships, but if you just surrender to the experience, it will generally guide you into those bliss states.

@Mehrdad visual stuff sounds like visual snow. People usually get it after doing lsd. Some people are born with it. Or if it's from energy centers being blocked or whatnot maybe try some breathing techniques like pranayama, or wim Hoff, or soma breath? I'm doing soma breath right now. Try some yoga like Sun salutations. Get the energy flowing, maybe it's stuck in your head because of too much focus. I think the worst thing to do would be panic. The anxiety may make it worse. What type of meditation were you practicing? Maybe you broke through or are on the path to breaking through but you don't understand what your going through.

@Consilience I think I'll experiment a bit more with psychedelics. What is your opinion on 5 meo? I feel like lsd and shrooms would be better to unveil these subconscious states that influence our actions, but I'm not sure about 5 meo. It's just so short, even if you insufflate or plug it. Have you any experience of it exposing these undercurrents of the mind? Granted I've only done it twice, but both times it just seems to show me death, and only in the come up do I get this extreme state of awareness or mindfulness where I can analyze my relationships and attitudes towards things in an unbiased manner. But this is more from reflection than how shrooms and lsd (with music) would just take you there.

Wow that's a really good response, thank you. So when you uncover unconscious attachments or traumas during a trip. How do you go about resolving them? I already practice meditation on the breath, but I can't yet rationalize how meditation will unfold the trip experience and help integrate it. Do you mean contemplate your experiences or does understanding spontaneously come to you. Because my definition of meditation is concentration on one point, not the type of free flow of thoughts or letting go type of meditation.

You could try breathwork. This one is called soma breath, it's similar to holographic and wim Hoff methods. Great for rebalancing the nervous system to promote relaxation, rebalancing, and self healing (in the physical sense too like diseases or pain). You can also experience DMT like breakthroughs doing it, especially if you do the long 60 min ones. This one is like a tutorial, just do it once or twice to understand the technique: Use this one for daily practice: After you finish a session you can just sit and do classic meditation on the breath. After doing the breathing techniques your mind becomes very still and conducive for meditation. You don't have all the struggle and tensions that you normally get. To meditate on the breath, just know the breath. When you inhale, know you are inhaling. When you exhale, know you are exhaling. No need to follow the breath into the body. Just have light awareness at the top of the lip or tip of the nose, that area. Know you are inhaling, know you are exhaling. Sometimes a light may appear. If the light is not stable, resting at the tip of the nose, do not follow it, just focus on the breath. Eventually the light will stabilize at the tip of the nose, only when it is stable should you switch your awareness from the breath to the light. This is called the nimitta, or counterpart sign.