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This is extremely cool. Within about 10 seconds in a lit room without white noise playing I began getting fairly vivid visuals. I'll be sure to come back to thi

This is extremely cool. Within about 10 seconds in a lit room without white noise playing I began getting fairly vivid visuals. I'll be sure to come back to this to get the full experience later, and complete the questionnaire. For reference I tend to get interesting/vivid visuals whenever I close my eyes for a few seconds, often when I look at a finely patterned/textured surface, and sometimes when I look at basically anything when I've gone >36 hours without sleep. The visuals from this are more intense than those I get from simply closing my eyes though, and more interesting/changing than those from looking at tiled floors or popcorn ceiling.

nivethan 5y ago
Have you done lsd/shrooms before? This almost sounds like you can trigger the after effects yourself.
- WillDaSilva 5y ago
  These visuals I regularly experience are similar to those experienced on shroom, but far less intense/intrusive/encompassing. They're fairly distinct in sensation from visuals experienced through imagining, which are fairly distinct from daydreaming, which are fairly distinct from dreaming. I wish we had a language expressive enough to share these qualitative experiences - my writing does little to express them.
ravenstine 5y ago
What sort of visuals did you see? I had some amazing visuals, but I'm not really sure what I'm to expect if I'm one of those people with vivid mental imagery. I didn't see anything particularly concrete, except what kind of looked like a spiral galaxy at one point. The rest was basically lots of cool fractals and textures. What was most strange was a few shooting stars I saw pass through my vision; they weren't those sorts of "shooting stars" you might get if you get up too fast or if you get all the wind knocked out of you. These were quite vivid shooting stars moving steadily for several seconds until each would vanish.
- WillDaSilva 5y ago
  It's hard to explain because it isn't like seeing the actual objects I'm about to list - these visuals all morph into each other, and sometimes it feels like I'm seeing an idea rather than an object, if that makes any sense. Using Ganzflicker for about a minute I recall I saw: - some strange smooth shapes, like two glass hourglasses on either side with oil refracting light, with a blob sliding through the middle of them - A cat's face - A forest with non-existent animals running through the tall large-trunked trees - A palace full of marble columns - Some sort of grand tower that went out into space, and seemed to branch out like a rope being made There were all many more abstract things, typically in between (or as a transition between) the more identifiable parts.

nivethan 5y ago

Have you done lsd/shrooms before? This almost sounds like you can trigger the after effects yourself.

WillDaSilva 5y ago
These visuals I regularly experience are similar to those experienced on shroom, but far less intense/intrusive/encompassing. They're fairly distinct in sensation from visuals experienced through imagining, which are fairly distinct from daydreaming, which are fairly distinct from dreaming. I wish we had a language expressive enough to share these qualitative experiences - my writing does little to express them.

ravenstine 5y ago

What sort of visuals did you see? I had some amazing visuals, but I'm not really sure what I'm to expect if I'm one of those people with vivid mental imagery. I didn't see anything particularly concrete, except what kind of looked like a spiral galaxy at one point. The rest was basically lots of cool fractals and textures. What was most strange was a few shooting stars I saw pass through my vision; they weren't those sorts of "shooting stars" you might get if you get up too fast or if you get all the wind knocked out of you. These were quite vivid shooting stars moving steadily for several seconds until each would vanish.

WillDaSilva 5y ago
It's hard to explain because it isn't like seeing the actual objects I'm about to list - these visuals all morph into each other, and sometimes it feels like I'm seeing an idea rather than an object, if that makes any sense. Using Ganzflicker for about a minute I recall I saw: - some strange smooth shapes, like two glass hourglasses on either side with oil refracting light, with a blob sliding through the middle of them - A cat's face - A forest with non-existent animals running through the tall large-trunked trees - A palace full of marble columns - Some sort of grand tower that went out into space, and seemed to branch out like a rope being made There were all many more abstract things, typically in between (or as a transition between) the more identifiable parts.