I've heard similar from people who didn't know they had vision issues, saw an eye specialist, received glasses, and went outside and actually saw for the first time in their lives how pretty everything outside is (offer not valid in some areas, other restrictions may apply). Most of them break down in tears from the sheer emotion, that i've known and seen videos of.

The mushroom thing isn't so earth-moving. It's like you have a deck of trading cards, and you take a gummy, and now all your cards look almost like foil cards. Shimmery, just on the peripheral, and since I personally was trying to experience good things, i was able to pay more attention to the birds and stuff.

It's almost like a placebo that gives you permission to not worry and to just experience for a short while.

While your sweatshop sucked, without that experience you maybe wouldn't appreciate the car manufacturer job experience as much, and it mightn't not have made you think to post at all.

I dunno, i'm getting real soft in my mid-life.