Neuro-metascience

I'm really fascinated by how the mind works, the interplay between the conscious and subconscious.

We are complicated beings without even realizing or being aware of our complexity, take how we process input.
We have sensory organs which pick up everything around us, 360 - a complete bubble which is much bigger than we consciously know.
The entire array of colors which is found in light and shadow, all the different scents in the air and their subtle changes, how everything feels (this is tons of info all at once, wherever something is touching your skin - which is always,) we taste the air and the bacteria in our mouth, whatever we put there has levels of flavors, we hear all along the spectrum as well and we pick up every noise, conversation, note, whisper.

All of this is dumped into our brain every millisecond of every day.

Our brain has a processing/filtering center which sorts all of it, pulls out what is relevant to us at the moment and then files everything else away in it's appropriate place in the brain.

We have complete eidetic memories (unless there is damage to our memory storage and retrieval centers of the brain.)
We can access anything at any time if we know how to ask for it and are patient as our brain works like a library computer and chases down the appropriate information for the inquiry.

If you've lost something and can sleep on it, ask your subconscious to show where the last place you saw it was and to allow that information to be accessible upon waking. Unless someone moved it, you'll more than likely find it in the exact spot you saw in your dream.
Everything we read, watch, listen to - all of it is stored in our brains.

I wish I could figure out how to access all the knowledge in my head whenever I want it. There's some kind of memory block I experience half the time and if I could get past it, I could be a code cracker. As in having the ability to remember and recall anything I put into my brain. Of course this is why part of an IQ score is how much information we able to retain and translate into useful knowledge.

But think of what this means on the level of psychedelics.
Entheogens and the like seem to take away the filters which prevent us from being "bogged down" with all of billions (trillions??) of bytes of info streaming in through our sensory organs. Suddenly we are aware of the full spectrum of colors (sights), sounds, feelings, tastes, and scents. We find there is much more to our surrounding reality than our consciousness lets on, we find that we have been living in a sterile bubble of bland in comparison to what the universe actually looks like.

And they call this insanity? Is it? The hallucinations are probably the side effects of so much going on all at once and blending over onto each other, overlapping and melting into one another - the first traces of experiencing the phenomenon of All is One and One is All.