Your brain is a storytelling machine that never stops running.
Every experience gets woven into a narrative about who you are, what the world is like, and what everything means.
The problem? Your brain prioritizes coherent stories over accurate ones. It would rather have a satisfying explanation than no explanation at all.
So it fills in gaps with assumptions, connects unrelated events, and creates meaning where none might exist.
This isn’t a bug in your psychological system – it’s a feature. Stories help you navigate complexity and make decisions quickly. But many of the stories running your life are outdated, incomplete, or just plain wrong.
Psilocybin has a remarkable ability to reveal these invisible narratives and help you choose which stories actually serve you.
You're living inside multiple narratives simultaneously:
Identity Story: “I’m the type of person who…”
Relationship Story: “People always…” or “Love means…”
Success Story: “To be worthy, I must…”
Safety Story: “The world is…” or “I can’t trust…”
Purpose Story: “Life is about…” or “My role is to…”
These stories feel like facts, but they’re interpretations. And interpretations can be revised.
How Your Brain Writes Fiction
Your meaning-making system uses flawed logic:
Confirmation Bias: Noticing evidence that supports your existing story while ignoring contradictory information.
Pattern Matching: Assuming current situations will play out like past experiences.
Causal Thinking: Creating cause-and-effect relationships between unrelated events.
Emotional Reasoning: Using feelings as evidence (“I feel like a failure, so I must be failing”)
The result: elaborate stories built on shaky foundations.
Microdosing often makes you realize how much of your reality is narrated rather than directly experienced:
You start noticing the difference between what’s actually happening and the story you’re telling about what’s happening.
Common insights:
- "I've been telling myself I'm not creative, but look at all the creative things I do"
- "My story about being unlucky doesn't match my actual experiences"
- "I assumed that person didn't like me, but I have no real evidence"
- "I've been living like I'm still that insecure teenager, but I'm not anymore"
You realize: you’re not just living your life, you’re interpreting it – and interpretations are changeable.
Try This: The Story Audit
Pick one area of life where you feel stuck. Ask yourself:
- What story am I telling about this situation?
- When did I first learn this story?
- What evidence supports it? What evidence contradicts it?
- How would this situation look if I told a different story about it?
You might discover that the “facts” of your life can support multiple narratives.
You can't change what happened, but you can change what it means:
Old Story: “I failed at that relationship, so I’m bad at love”
New Story: “That relationship taught me valuable lessons about compatibility and communication”
Old Story: “I got rejected, so I must not be good enough”
New Story: “That wasn’t the right fit, and now I’m available for something better aligned”
Old Story: “I struggle with anxiety, so I’m broken”
New Story: “I have a sensitive nervous system that gives me valuable information about my environment”
Same facts, completely different implications for how you move forward.
The Power of Story Revision
When you become conscious of your narratives:
- You stop being trapped by outdated interpretations
- You can choose empowering meanings over disempowering ones
- You become more curious about other people's stories
- You realize that most conflicts are between different stories about the same events
- You take more creative risks because you can reframe "failures" as "experiments"
You become the author of your experience instead of a victim of your interpretations.
Psilocybin doesn’t give you new stories – it helps you see that you’re already living inside stories.
This creates choice. Once you realize that your current narrative is one possible interpretation among many, you can experiment with alternatives.
You start asking better questions:
“What if this difficult period is actually preparation for something better?”
“What if my sensitivity is a strength, not a weakness?”
“What if this rejection is protection from something that wasn’t right for me?”
You are both the protagonist and narrator of your life story.
The plot is what happens. The meaning is what you make of what happens.
Most people are unconscious authors, letting old stories write their new chapters. But you can become a conscious storyteller, choosing narratives that serve your growth and happiness.
The events of your life are neutral until you give them meaning. What meaning are you choosing?
Until next time,
Mushie Media of the Week:
“The Benefits of Psilocybin Microdosing”
by: The Mr. Joe Bipolar Podcast
