Anyone who has tried psychedelic drugs knew it already, but scientists using brain scanning technology have found that yes, tripping does activate a 'higher' conscious state. According to a new study published by neuroscientists from the University of Sussex and Imperial College London, levels of neural activity in participants' brains increased and became much more diverse while under the influence of LSD. According to their data published in Scientific Reports, the researchers found that this level of increased activity corresponded to the intensity of participants' psychedelic experience: This is the first time that these measures have been applied to the psychedelic state and, crucially, that they have yielded values exceeding those of normal waking consciousness. These findings suggest that the sustained occurrence of psychedelic phenomenology constitutes an elevated level of consciousness – as measured by neural signal diversity. This level of signal diversity is based on the