About ourselves and our lives. >> and it's where you connect what happens in your life to the story of who you are. >> we all develop a story over time about time, what our past was like a person we are, how we react and that the fact is that interesting things happen when the self goes quiet and the brain, including this rewiring that happens to see that rewiring johns hopkins scientist matthew johnson showed us this representational chart of brain activity the circle on the left shows normal communication between parts of the brain. on the right, what happens on psilocybin? there's an explosion of connections or crosstalk between areas of the brain that don't normally communicate the difference has just startling, right? >> is that why people are having experiences of seeing repress memories are passed memories are people who have died or that's what we think at, and even the perceptual effect sometimes there's synesthesia like the scene