Reason it's on a hallmark card there's a reason and one of the things psychedelics do is they peel away all those essentially protective levels of irony and cynicism that we, that we acquire as we get older and you back to those kind of oh my god, i forgot all about love polin said he also experienced with the researchers describe as ego loss or identity loss, the quieting of the constant boys. we all have in our heads. >> i did have this experience of seeing my ego burst into a little cloud of post-it notes. i know it sounds crazy. >> and what are you without an ego you're yet to be their researchers believe that sensation of identity loss occurs because psilocybin quiet these two areas of the brain that normally communicate with each other. they're part of a region called the default mode network and it's especially active when we're thinking