Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?

[Whateverist]

Subjectively, you may believe you are doing better work, psychedelics are famous for this. But only in a few instances (ritalin studying or epo/blood doping for racers or androgens for adding muscle) are the results actually improved performance in some limited way. And those interventions pretty universally come with deleterious side effects.

I mostly agree with you but I do recall a night on a hallucinogen going out with a friend at night and throwing frisbee. I'm okay normally but that night I was catching it behind my back every time in poor light. Normally that wasn't something I could do very often. But that night every grab was sure. Makes me wonder.

My own theory is that there are two factors involved in performing any task, one's talent and one's access to that talent. I think drugs can improve access sometimes.