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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 thi
by __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 agoI 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.