The deniers vehemently deny, and outright insult people’s experiences.
The people who say they’ve experienced will be adamant that they have.
Honestly, I hope it’s real and we find a way to replicate it only because it’s so cool.
There are more cameras pointed all over the place than ever, and somehow there has never been a recording of this phenomena, despite the Wikipedia claiming upwards of 5% of people having experienced this?
Nah.
To them it is completely obvious and real. That this life is a mere shadow, a simulation. Nothing will convince them otherwise.
But we (general public without that experience) can't possibly believe it, come up with many theories on what the brain is doing.
I've never experienced ball lightning but I can believe the ones who have most of the time.
Death experiences, I can't even imagine something more real than my current reality, how could I possibly start to believe it? Despite how obvious it is to those who went through it, it's impossible for me to even begin imagining something like that.
I've avoided psychedelics because all I have is my brain, and I'm scared I could screw something up in my mind. I kinda want to keep my mind safe, it's all I am. Losing the consistency of my mind that I've always known is scary.
Psychedelics probably won't permanently screw you up. On the most common ones, like psilocybin mushrooms or LSD, you may even still feel very much yourself while tripping.
That said, if this is your attitude about psychedelics, they would probably be a bad time for you. It's one of those things where the more you stiffen up and brace yourself, the scarier and more uncomfortable the changes in your perception that come with tripping will seem to you. You definitely want to approach them with more openness and curiosity, and if you don't feel like that's available to you with respect to psychedelics, opting out of them is a totally sound choice.