Psychologist William James did a little personal consciousness exploration by putting himself under anaesthesia and came out of it with the proclamation: “everything is the smell of burnt almonds.”
Alan Watts - The smell of burnt almonds
Would also like to add that psychedelics could be a great tool in the study of consciousness. British psychiatrist David Nutt put their ban and lack of pursuit in these terms, “imagine if you were an astronomer in a world where the telescope was banned.”
