Are you suggesting that even someone with anomalous perceptions can contribute to a scientific study of such experiences as a scientist and not simply as a “lab rat” to be studied?

I worry about being able to be a scientist because of the way I see the world. If I’m not experiencing the same stuff that everyone else does, doesn’t that bring my ability to percieve things correctly into question? I’ve recently been asked to participate in a study of unusual experiences, and have even been given the option of co-authorship in whatever paper is published on this work. There is a part of me that thinks I should just sit back and be a good lab rat for the nice scientists, because I do question my own perceptions and worry that these experiences make me a “bad scientist”. On the other hand, I would really like to contribute fully as both a subject and a scientist.

Do you think such a thing is possible to do within a proper scientific framework?