Terminal lucidity has resisted systematic study less because of skepticism than because of logistics: we do not know how to bring it about. In a supervised setting, she was given five grams of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, and the acute phase was anything but gentle: profuse sweating, suspected hyperthermia, a prolonged sleep-like state. Why this looks familiarAnyone who has worked with terminal lucidity will recognize the pattern, because what returns is rarely a single skill but the person as a whole—language, memory, recognition, humor, all at once. Terminal lucidity looks increasingly like a limiting case of something larger, and this report sits at the far end of that continuum, where an intervention came first. Pinker argued that people longing for contact will read lucidity into any flicker of responsiveness, and asked for what no report had supplied—an objective indicator.