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I don't know how much LSD you did or what your body weight was or anything else that might be chemically relevant. But I would be deeply surprised by an individ
by ummwhat 5y ago
I don't know how much LSD you did or what your body weight was or anything else that might be chemically relevant. But I would be deeply surprised by an individual being immune to the closed eye hallucinations.
When you look at a lightbulb for a moment and then close your eyes, do you get the after image? The "closed eye hallucinations" are just that normal after image chopped up in frequency space. LSD exposes the fact that a lot of what the brain does can be understood in terms of analog signal processing. The most reliable way to get a high quality viewing of the crystal patterns is with TV static. Baring that, any randomized constant texture such as a carpet will suffice. The reason is because random noise evenly fills up the entire spectrum in frequency space, so whatever frequencies are cut, de-phased, or otherwise affectef are guaranteed to be present in an image of pure noise. Another reliable glitch is that all lines below a certain thickness will tend to wobble or drift in and out of visibility. Again, construct a line as a really thin gaussian wave packet and see what happens when the high frequency terms pick up phase drift.
LSD hallucinations have nothing to do with aphantasia.
- tasty_freeze 5y agoI got vivid, rich, and colorful closed-eye imagery from psilocybin (20-20mg) and no open-eye visuals from it. LSD was the reverse -- obvious open eye visuals, no closed eye visuals (up to 200ug). LSD was brought up because of the specific experience of having visual impressions of things without actually seeing anything. My sober "minds eye" is like that too -- I can describe what I've been asked to conjure, but I don't really see it.