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Anecdotally, I have longterm visual side effects from taking magic mushrooms once 16 years ago (halos around objects, static on the walls, patterns pulsing, etc

Anecdotally, I have longterm visual side effects from taking magic mushrooms once 16 years ago (halos around objects, static on the walls, patterns pulsing, etc.) It's possible they were there prior but I didn't notice them, but these are not that uncommon from what I glean (see HPPD). I also had semi ego death for a year or two.

__MatrixMan__ 5y ago
I was terrified of HPPD when I was first dabbling in psychedelics. 15 years and many trips later I notice the occasional perceptual oddity, but I feel like this is how my perception has always worked and pre-drug-use-me was just ignoring the debug output. Not to diminish any accounts of HPPD to the contrary, maybe I'm just lucky.
- throwawaypkjhg 5y ago
  I think this is a good theory. As mentioned in my other reply, my symptoms didn't start until about a week afterwards when I started having panic attacks. From there, the anxiety caused the visual symptoms (I may have even read about them online). It's entirely possible that I just inadvertently trained myself to see the unfiltered raw output from my visual cortex, which I previously ignored. If you read about any HPPD communities it seems inextricably linked to anxiety, but hard to know which is the cause and which is the effect.
stephenitis 5y ago
What was your dosage? Was it a single dose? Age at the time? any other drugs were in play? Have your HPPD faded over time? I’m curious and if you don’t mind answering.
- throwawaypkjhg 5y ago
  Thanks for the note. I was 15 and took an eighth in a single dose as tea. I had been smoking a lot of weed too for about a week. Ironically the trip wasn't that intense, but I had a panic attack because my friend (who was also on mushrooms) started having seizures. These side effects also didn't appear for about a week, which adds to theory that most people 'see' these things but their brains ignore them. I was always extremely sensitive to marijuana too (similar medium-term ego death, etc.)

__MatrixMan__ 5y ago

I was terrified of HPPD when I was first dabbling in psychedelics. 15 years and many trips later I notice the occasional perceptual oddity, but I feel like this is how my perception has always worked and pre-drug-use-me was just ignoring the debug output. Not to diminish any accounts of HPPD to the contrary, maybe I'm just lucky.

throwawaypkjhg 5y ago
I think this is a good theory. As mentioned in my other reply, my symptoms didn't start until about a week afterwards when I started having panic attacks. From there, the anxiety caused the visual symptoms (I may have even read about them online). It's entirely possible that I just inadvertently trained myself to see the unfiltered raw output from my visual cortex, which I previously ignored. If you read about any HPPD communities it seems inextricably linked to anxiety, but hard to know which is the cause and which is the effect.

stephenitis 5y ago

What was your dosage? Was it a single dose? Age at the time? any other drugs were in play? Have your HPPD faded over time? I’m curious and if you don’t mind answering.

throwawaypkjhg 5y ago
Thanks for the note. I was 15 and took an eighth in a single dose as tea. I had been smoking a lot of weed too for about a week. Ironically the trip wasn't that intense, but I had a panic attack because my friend (who was also on mushrooms) started having seizures. These side effects also didn't appear for about a week, which adds to theory that most people 'see' these things but their brains ignore them. I was always extremely sensitive to marijuana too (similar medium-term ego death, etc.)