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The general group of pharmacological agents commonly known as hallucinogens
can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives,
and deliriants. These classes of psychoactive drugs have in common that
they can cause subjective changes in perception, thought, emotion and
consciousness. Unlike other psychoactive drugs, such as stimulants and
opioids, the hallucinogens do not merely amplify familiar states of mind,
but rather induce experiences that are qualitatively different from those
of ordinary consciousness. These experiences are often compared to
non-ordinary forms of consciousness such as trance, meditation, conversion
experiences, and dreams.
One thing that most of these drugs do not do, despite the ingrained usage
of the term hallucinogen, is to cause hallucinations. Hallucinations,
strictly speaking, are perceptions that have no basis in reality, but that
appear enti
