Facilitating real-life creative insight through psychedelic virtual reality
May 28, 2023 Timo Siimon, Kadi Tulver, Kristjan Kaup et al. 2 citations preprint
A psychedelic virtual reality environment, which replicates visual content experienced under the influence of psychedelics, helped people stuck on a real-life creative problem reach new insights more effectively than a control VR environment. The thematic analysis indicated that the psychedelic VR supported several aspects of creative insight, likely by relaxing the person's fixed assumptions about their problem. The results are encouraging but need to be tested in larger studies.