On the journey to becoming a productive member of society I had to compartmentalize my inner child.
During my early schoolboy years, he waited patiently for the school day to finish so that he could finally resume his creative and playful pursuits.
As the education became more involved, he had to wait a little longer because of homework.
In university, the complicated assignments, group projects, and late night study sessions meant that he would often not get to let loose until the weekend.
The full-time job, commute, technical projects, work politics, and other adult responsibilities really did the biggest number on him though. Sometimes he would go without playing for weeks, or months at a time.
Today it’s as if my adult mask has adhered permanently to my face and I can no longer access him at all.
Yes, you can take some psychedelics in order to shake your brain out of its decades of set pathways. All children’s minds are open and lack set thought patterns and pick up on reality in full. An adult brain is set in its pathways and doesn’t do much in the way of processing truly new information. Very few things are able to get people out of their set neurological pathways, psychedelics is one of them. You can also practice meditation and Buddhist or daoist excercises like the whole ‘learn to look at a tree without calling it a tree’ thing. Honestly though microdosing on psylocibin mushrooms are easier, quicker, and more gaurenteed to give you the results you want. As an added bonus will blast the depression and anxiety right out of your brain if you are suffering from those particular mental issues.