Ideas for research study

[Bestyle2209]

Hey guys, 
I'm a third-year bachelor of psychology student in a relatively progressive, green university in the Netherlands (e.g. our drug department just finished an interesting study on 5-MEO-DMT) and I was granted to do my own research in the field of Psychology that I desire to research in (the funding I get is result-independent so I'm relatively free to do what I want).  
So why I'm making this post is that I wanted to ask for potential ideas or things I could research on that might actually help (even only to the tiniest degree) to help us progress to become more conscious. 
Of course - there is psychedelic research.
Do you have more ideas? Any research ideas you always wanted to test but never had the time or tools to do it. Unfortunately, I only have half a year time for the whole project (so roughly 3-4 months for data collection), so it can not be a big thing with extensive follow-ups or whatever.

Especially paradigm-critical research is appreciated. In general, even if I couldn't use your ideas for my own research, I would love to hear your ideas on fields that are yet undiscovered or intelligent research designs.

Edited June 3, 2020 by Bestyle2209

[EnlightenmentBlog]

That's really cool. 

I don't know if any of these qualify, but what about "Fear and How to manage it", "Psychology of Sex", "Introverted vs Extroverted", "Gaming and Psychology", "Link between psychology and upbringing/region/age group/etc".

Wish you all the luck.

[Bestyle2209]

hey @EnlightenmentBlog thank you for your answers! Psychology of Sex sounds interesting and not fully explored to me yet, I'll think about it - thanks.
One thought I had is that if you personally are interested in gaming and psychology I would recommend the youtube channel healthygamer to you. It's of a Harvard professor who practices a lot of meditation and gives advice to gamers. 

[allislove]

@Bestyle2209 are you planning to take 5-MeO to have a good research?  
 

[EnlightenmentBlog]

@Bestyle2209 Nice. Thanks. Will give it a look.

[Bestyle2209]

@dimitri hahaha - that would be a separate research project I think :-D

[allislove]

@Bestyle2209 ultimate research project ??

[max duewel]

Concept of the self, Psychology and Art, Cultural Differences in Psychology (Pathologies, Values, Worldviews).

How people define spirituality, what people's goals are, how people cope with death, family dynamics.

Horror movies influence, porn influence.

May I ask in which city you are studying? ( Also study in the Netherlands) 

 

 

[Forestluv]

@Bestyle2209 Are you able to utilize psychedelics with animal and/or humans? And do you have access to neuroimagining equipment like EEG and fMRI? In the area of psychology, I tend to favor more objective assays, rather more subjective assays such as surveys. 

[Bestyle2209]

@max duewel Thank you for your ideas :-) I'm studying in Maastricht.

[Bestyle2209]

@Serotoninluv Definitely with humans, I would need to ask about animals, tho. I would also need to ask if I'm allowed to actively manipulate the experiment as I have no medical pre-experience or if I'm "only" allowed to do an observational study. I will talk to my professor and let you know.
My university wants us to use EEG or fMRI - they are obsessed with it 

 

[roopepa]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_crisis

In the upcoming years, clinical psychology will need more understanding of spiritual awakening in general.

There will be a lot of people who take psychedelics irresponsibly. There will be a lot of people who become deluded in weird ways. Find a way to help these people to get through their awakening safely.

[Nak Khid]

On 6/3/2020 at 7:08 AM, Bestyle2209 said:

Hey guys, 
I'm a third-year bachelor of psychology student in a relatively progressive, green university in the Netherlands (e.g. our drug department just finished an interesting study on 5-MEO-DMT) and I was granted to do my own research in the field of Psychology that I desire to research in (the funding I get is result-independent so I'm relatively free to do what I want).  
So why I'm making this post is that I wanted to ask for potential ideas or things I could research on that might actually help (even only to the tiniest degree) to help us progress to become more conscious. 
Of course - there is psychedelic research.
Do you have more ideas? Any research ideas you always wanted to test but never had the time or tools to do it. Unfortunately, I only have half a year time for the whole project (so roughly 3-4 months for data collection), so it can not be a big thing with extensive follow-ups or whatever.

Especially paradigm-critical research is appreciated. In general, even if I couldn't use your ideas for my own research, I would love to hear your ideas on fields that are yet undiscovered or intelligent research designs.

It seems to me since there are so few research articles on this chemical that you should do some very basic experiments with it. 
This would be along the lines of standard psychological tests done where a person is tested the same way before, during and after taking it, the largest number of subjects you can get. 

There are already many trip reports so the nature of these test would be less oriented towards asking questions about how they are feeling  but instead how they react to certain stimuli , sensory, perceptual and motor skill ability. 

One might expect some abilities to be impaired but it would be interesting if some ability might be enhanced.   I wonder if anyone who has done 5 Meo thinks that a particular ability might be enhanced, something measurable 

 

[Red-White-Light]

@Bestyle2209 I don't know if this is possible, but it would be cool to scan the brain on psychedelics, Like you would have different groups. 

A group meditating.

A group meditating on phycedelics.

A group on phycedelics.

A group without phycedelics and not meditating

[Bestyle2209]

@roopepa thought-provoking, thanks.
@Nak Khid Yes, I was wondering whether one could design a study to find paranormal phenomena in a significant amount of participants. For example, while tripping, two other friends and I had the perception of seeing auras around people which for each person were similar in color to us who were seeing them. So what I want to say with that is that it would be nice to find some paranormal phenomena which could be perceived by multiple people in a reproducible way - but it seems to me that each experience is too subjective and "unreliable" to conduct such research.
@Red-White-Light I doubt that my sample size would be sufficiently large to test four groups, but it is a nice idea to match meditation and psychedelics. If you're interested in that, google "ego-dissolution" - a lot of researchers linked meditation and psychedelics with that experience.
@Serotoninluv I asked my professor and he advised me to do an observational study as in requesting psychedelic research centers to let me assess the people taking the substances pre- and post and maybe also during.