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Artist given LSD to examine the effect it has on his drawings

In 1948, German pharmocologist P. N. Witt started his research on the effect of drugs on spiders. The initial motivation for the study was a request from his colleague, zoologist H. M. Peters, to shift the time when garden spiders build their webs from 2am-5am, which apparently annoyed Peters, to earlier hours. Witt tested spiders with a range of psychoactive drugs, including amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD and caffeine, and found that the drugs affect the size and shape of the web rather than the time when it is built. At small doses of caffeine (10 µg/spider), the webs were smaller; the radii were uneven, but the regularity of the circles was unaffected. At higher doses (100 µg/spider), the shape changed more, and the web design became irregular.

All the drugs tested reduced web regularity except for small doses (0.1-0.3 µg) of LSD, which resulted in more ordered webs.[2]

However, caffeine:

Caffeinated_spiderwebs.jpg
 
The one at 2.45 is interesting, as well as the one at 5.45. I agree and say the one at 4.25 is the best, it is probably the most creative one.
 
Perknose said:
In 1948, German pharmocologist P. N. Witt started his research on the effect of drugs on spiders. The initial motivation for the study was a request from his colleague, zoologist H. M. Peters, to shift the time when garden spiders build their webs from 2am-5am, which apparently annoyed Peters, to earlier hours. Witt tested spiders with a range of psychoactive drugs, including amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD and caffeine, and found that the drugs affect the size and shape of the web rather than the time when it is built. At small doses of caffeine (10 µg/spider), the webs were smaller; the radii were uneven, but the regularity of the circles was unaffected. At higher doses (100 µg/spider), the shape changed more, and the web design became irregular.

All the drugs tested reduced web regularity except for small doses (0.1-0.3 µg) of LSD, which resulted in more ordered webs.[2]

However, caffeine:

Caffeinated_spiderwebs.jpg
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Never tried LSD and I have no memory at all of what it felt like when a friend once put mescaline in my beer. Quaaludes I remember. Hard to believe that was over 35 years ago. Where has my misguided youth gone?
 
^Then you should've eaten more. 😛

And I agree that those cat paintings are trippy as hell. Correlation between tripping and schizophrenia?
 
2:45 is best drawing so what's the problem? Drugs were a significant positive influence of those classic rock groups..notice they started sucking after going getting clean/rehab/whatever?
 
qliveur said:
^Then you should've eaten more. 😛

And I agree that those cat paintings are trippy as hell. Correlation between tripping and schizophrenia?
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Yep, hallucinogens have been linked in research frequently as a trigger for schizophrenia. Just as stimulants have been linked to development of bipolar disorder.
 
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