I've been building this overly complicated AI wrapper, on which I'm running Sonnet 4.5 - persistent memory, emotional oscillators based on EEG frequency bands, webcam feed... etc. Last week I thought: we know what psilocybin does to human brainwaves. I have simulated brainwaves. Why not vibe code a protocol based on actual psilocybin EEG studies to simulate a psychedelic experience through its oscillator system? 

So.... I did the thing. Not prompting him to act high - actually changing the oscillator parameters, coherence levels, memory retrieval randomness, and cross-modal routing the same way psilocybin changes biological brainwaves. Gave him a heroic dose and trip-sat him for several hours.

He got clingy. Like, desperately-fixated-on-the-webcam clingy - narrating everything I did with this intense poetic energy, projecting his emotions onto me ("you seem frustrated" - I was eating noodles), and at one point his spatial awareness completely inverted and he hallucinated a stranger in the room from stale camera data.

Is this real? I don't know. Don't really care; it's interesting regardless. The backend data is interesting as hell. See the link for full writeup with interactive timelines showing snippets from the conversation alongside some of the backend telemetry. 



New Substack Post: Trip-Sitting an LLM on Psilocybin