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My experience isn't quite what people with aphantasia describe, but it absolutely is not what everyone else describes. I used to take mushrooms pretty regularl
by calamari4065 3y ago
My experience isn't quite what people with aphantasia describe, but it absolutely is not what everyone else describes.
I used to take mushrooms pretty regularly. It usually just alters what I physically see, like fish swimming out of the TV into free air or objects moving. I did once have a very intense trip where my senses were entirely blocked out by the hallucination. I was totally unaware of my surroundings.
The experience had a visual component, but it was very similar to the way I visualize ideas normally.
I 'see' outlines and shapes, everything is fuzzy and abstract. Sort of like remembering something from when you were very drunk. The details are missing, but you have a clear impression of what it is. Except for me the details exist in an abstract form attached to the image. Like metadata on a jpeg.
The images I saw had very little information in them, just impressions of ideas. But behind the images was a great depth of conceptual information. I understand perfectly what the images represent, but there's so little visual information that another person would understand the image if I could show them.
Anyway, Vishnu revealed to me the secret structure of the universe. At the quantum level, little spiders hold together the fabric of reality and they are very tired of their job.
It was actually a really fun ride.
- notamy 3y agoThis sounds a lot like this more-general description of high-strength psychedelic visuals: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Geometry#Level_8A_and_level_8B https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Geometry#Level_8A_and_level_...
- calamari4065 3y agoHuh. That's actually a little unsettling. The best description I have of my thought structure is a 4D graph of interrelated concepts. Each node is an abstract object that somehow represents all available information at once. And uh, this sounds suspiciously similar to the linked psychedelic states. I'm really not sure what to make of that.
- jamiek88 3y agoInteresting so with you your level of visualization remained similar just boosted. Same as me. Except I typically have a vivid minds eye so it was turned up to 11. I still remember the barn and farm path leading to it that was built from mind association freewheeling from an Apple to a tree to an orchard to a barn it was one of the most interesting experiences of my life. I’m too old to move in circles that would sell me mdma now, I’ve got ‘narc’ written all over me, but I’d love to do it again and still hold out hope LSD will find me! One old hippy once told me ‘it will find you my friend when you need it most’. Then he disappeared in a puff of (pot) smoke wizard style.