Auras that precede migraine headaches do resemble these, and also apparently resemble the patterns people see when they use hallucinogenic drugs. This narrativ

Auras that precede migraine headaches do resemble these, and also apparently resemble the patterns people see when they use hallucinogenic drugs. This narrative around things being revealed on drugs seems less plausible than your ability to cohere sensory data is impaired by poisoning, and the remaining signal/information is reduced to crude geometric patterns that resemble interference patterns because when you mess with sampling rates between two eyes/hemispheres, you get artifacts that resemble geometric forms. Constructing stories around the experience is how we reconcile it after the fact. I can't explain the DMT elves, but these forms could have an explanation as simple as poisonous mushrooms impairing the rate at which your brain samples sensory data and attempts to normalize and cohere it. Merely watching videos of these patterns doesn't change self perception, so drugs probably do a lot of other stuff, but revealing the underlying structure of the universe seems less likely than these being equivalent of a guitar effects pedal on a signal.