Funny Little Creatures

Album: The Stories We Tell Ourselves (2017)
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  • N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a tryptamine molecule that occurs in many plants and animals. When consumed it brings on an intense psychedelic experience. Jonny Hawkins' use of the potent hallucinogenic drug, helped open the Nothing More frontman's mind to new ways of understanding himself. "'Funny Little Creatures' is about waking up to the fact that there are these creatures that you have within yourself and that there's often a lot more going on in our subconscious than we consider," he said.

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