Microdosing and creativity

Please have a look to this study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267140/

One of the important "side-findings" of this study was a very constant amount of Psilocybin inside the truffles. Actually, the measurement-error was bigger than variation of contained substance. And it show that compared to Psilocybin, Psilocin and Baeocystin are almost not present.

The study was not blinded, as there was no way of giving same looking, same tasting magic truffles without substance to the participants.

Anyway, it shows some interesting results. The authors write:

The aim of this study was to explore the effects of microdosing psychedelics on creative problem-solving. We observed an increase in divergent idea generation on the AUT, as evidenced by a significant increase in fluency, flexibility, and originality scores, as well as an increase in convergent thinking on the PCT after intake of a microdose of magic truffles. Given that scores of fluid intelligence did not change between the two measurement time-points, while we did observe change in scores in the creativity domain, it is possible that microdosing targets creativity performance, but not more general analytic cognition. These findings are in line with earlier studies finding positive effects of high doses of psychedelics on creative performance (Harman and Fadiman 1970; Kuypers et al. 2016; Zegans et al. 1967). In particular, the increase in originality scores on the AUT parallels the increase in originality scores after intake of Ayahuasca reported by Kuypers et al. (2016). Taken together, our results suggest that consuming a microdose of truffles allowed participants to create more out-of-the-box alternative solutions for a problem, thus providing preliminary support for the assumption that microdosing improves divergent thinking. Moreover, we also observed an improvement of convergent thinking, that is, increased performance on a task that requires the convergence on one single correct or best solution.