r/nosleep story about a college student who gains god-like intelligence after taking some pills.
Looking for a horror story I read around 2015–2021, possibly on r/nosleep. It followed a male college student who went to college to escape his small hometown and didn't want to return. He was behind on his assignments/ didn't study for a test or something, and if he failed he'd have to return home. He received some mysterious pills from his roommate, and after taking them, his intelligence increased dramatically, almost like "gears clicking into place". He was able to finish all his work because it suddenly made sense to him in a way it hadn't before, almost like child's play. His expanded intelligence also allowed him to see into other planes of existence and perceive enormous, godlike beings that he shouldn't have been seeing. He also encountered or communicated with his deceased father in one of these planes, who may have been abusive. I believe the entire experience happened over a single night in his dorm room. It was a somewhat longer story.