I've had real (sober) enlightenment

Are you fucking kidding me? The anti psychedelic circlejerk is just as ridiculous as the psychonauts. You're not enlightened, you wouldn't be posting in drug forums on reddit about how enlightened you are.

"It's just the effects of the drug and the chemicals in your brain."

Just like your reaction to every outside stimuli in your life, your feelings of love and hate towards people and things, how things taste/look/sound/feel. Every sensation and idea and function of our mind is the result of chemicals. I'm not saying you should believe in your hallucinations on LSD or anything, but learning about your mind and the way you experience the world from the psychedelic experience has very little to do with getting a pleasure fix. In fact pleasurable psychedelic experiences are harder to learn anything from, it's the really difficult trips that teach value.

And when I say they teach you things of value, I don't mean like a voice telling you cosmic truths. It's like your character traits are amplified and you can observe yourself and your reaction to the world with less bias. You can adress emotions and feelings that you wouldn't allow yourself to feel honestly before, you can see the motivation behind your actions more clearly and you can become more empathetic and socially aware. This is what happened for myself personally. I feel at peace and comfortable in my own skin, I've gotten past anxieties and depression with this mindset, I'm more creative and passionate about making art and music, more aware and respectful of my physical body. I would say these things are bits of "wisdom" I've learned from my experiences on psychedelics. I may have learned these things without drugs but it would have taken much longer and been q more difficult process. I don't think "true enlightenment" is attainable by the average person, it's just kind of pretentious to assume you know what enlightenment is.