Enrico it seems to me you were prudent in putting the words “false perception” in quotes. If our understanding of quantum physics has proven anything, if the discoveries and evidence confirmed by the CERN supercollider have validated a general hypothesis about our experience relative to our generally collective perception it is this: we are NOT seeing things as they “really are”. Not even close. How we share a mostly synchronized perception is mysterious. I’ll accept the same prudence of quotes on the words “really are”. There is very little actual matter around us and the energy fields and radiant energy that our brain has created as a user interface as a matter of practical necessity only fabricates a narrow and limited perception — mostly it seems our sense interface is related to not walking into objects that have properties that would break our nose (or stub our toe) before we passed through them and the mind/brain fabrication also allows us to navigate and identify opportunities to eat, avoid being eaten, find shelter and procreate. My guess it that it will be difficult to understand what mind altering substances are doing when we have such little understanding of what an “unaltered” mind is doing. Maybe the two areas of research will compliment or even be synergistic.

This brings me to a question I do thought experiments about. As we advance in artificial intelligence and artificial reality would it be logical to classify these fields as hallucinogenic?