Interpreting past experiences after taking psychedelics

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A friend of mine, after starting to use psychedelics, looked back on past experiences that he knew were special but could never really describe and realized he now understands them much better. When he was only about 12 years old, he was playing in a championship basketball game and even though he was the star player on his team, could not make a shot to save his life in the first period of the game. He kept thinking that he had to play well and score a lot for his team to win, but also to satisfy his own ego as a basketball player. The harder he tried, the more he failed. When he was finally taken out of the game, he became so frustrated with himself that he cracked. He gave up trying, and upon entering the game again, proceeded to score 42 points and hit the game winning shot with 2 seconds left in overtime. He never once played basketball like that again. After extensive use of psychedelics in high school, he believes that incident is a real life example of some of the things he learned from the drugs. That living to satisfy one's own ego through achievements only hinders a person's true potential, weather it be as a basketball player, musician, mathematician or anything. In trying so hard to achieve something, he was only pushed further away from it. It was only at the point where he gave up all hope in himself that his mind was free from expectations and worry and he was at once able to perform at his highest potential. Has anyone else had a similar experience where a past event's true significance was made more clear through the use of psychedelic drugs???