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Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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I have a replica of an old painting of the Buddha, Tibetan.

Once on truffles I shouted out there is a snow lion in the painting.

Very vividly the pattern of the composition turns into a snowlion in 3d on truffles.

Sober I can now see the patterns in there, but not the strong visual representation.

They defintely put it in there on purpose. Not sure what tools they use to alter their vision.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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The first video shows diagonal rows of.. creatures, reminiscent maybe of crabs, or maybe flowers. They are pretty clearly visible once you repeat the video several times, and watch the black empty spaces between color lines, instead of the lines themselves (much like Castaneda describes it). The second one contains some intricate pattern or maybe letters, but still more like flowers. I was unable to make out any defi…

I see the words "WE LOVE YOU" in the negative space in the first video.

Ahh yes, you're right! The expanding circles show the text, it's just disappearing too quickly after. I imagine that, if you're on acid, the afterimage is strong enough to read the message clearly.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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Hmm. “Right state of consciousness” makes it sound exotic in a click baity way

It is more like “Experiencing a visual trip compatible with the image whilst also still lucid enough to communicate and remember”

Tripping comes in all varieties of strengths and effects. Often the effects are barely visual. Also you can be so out of it that you cannot speak and perhaps also cannot remember the test image when you’ve come down.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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I have a replica of an old painting of the Buddha, Tibetan. Once on truffles I shouted out there is a snow lion in the painting. Very vividly the pattern of the composition turns into a snowlion in 3d on truffles. Sober I can now see the patterns in there, but not the strong visual representation. They defintely put it in there on purpose. Not sure what tools they use to alter their vision.

Can you post a photo?

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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In what part of the video? The top? The bottom is definitely covered with repeating non-letter shapes.

In all parts. The center is has the biggest text. If it helps think of it this way: you're looking through a black fence at something colorful on the other side. Edit: You're right, the text is only in the middle and next largest "fold." The rest is, spoiler, alien face glyphs.

Confirmed! The letters are easy to read once you know where to look.

Indeed the regular pattern can be seen as alien faces. But they are so close by that to me the slanted "eyes" and the cup-like "chins" more readily form plant shapes, with pairs of "leaves" and "flowers" above them instead.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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I can see the first one fairly clearly in my default state of consciousness, which I suppose confirms my theory that I have higher-than-average vision persistence. (I have never used psychedelics, and do not plan to)

Tips to make it stand out more: HDR monitor at max brightness, increase playback speed to 2x

Try not to follow the movement, but keep your eyes on a fixed location (e.g. a speck of dust on your screen)

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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What are the messages hidden in each video. Unless I'm mistaken, the text below doesn't say what the hidden message is? In addition, does anyone have a version of the video with the messages visible, as outlined in the first description: Entire message can be seen clearly by using video editing software and applying a tracer/echo effect and having 60 images in a trail that each are 0.033 seconds after the previous. T…

The first video shows diagonal rows of.. creatures, reminiscent maybe of crabs, or maybe flowers. They are pretty clearly visible once you repeat the video several times, and watch the black empty spaces between color lines, instead of the lines themselves (much like Castaneda describes it). The second one contains some intricate pattern or maybe letters, but still more like flowers. I was unable to make out any defi…

> The third one contains letters in the vertical columns.

(The text is stationary; if it were moving, that would make the following fiddly and annoying, but not genuinely difficult. So it would provide the illusion of security, but no actual security. For this (kind of) reason, "psycrypto" strikes me as a rather bad idea.)

I transcoded the video to gif with:

  ffmpeg -i ZNpfcfHwdhA.mp4 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 6 ZNpfcfHwdhA.gif
then opened it in GIMP and copy-pasted various frames to a new image as layers with additive blending (Layers window > "Mode:" > "Addition") until legibility (somewhat) ensued.

The text says "UNIVERSE IS THE GATE" in a obnoxious ultra-stencil font.

Re: Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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I can see the first one fairly clearly in my default state of consciousness, which I suppose confirms my theory that I have higher-than-average vision persistence. (I have never used psychedelics, and do not plan to) Tips to make it stand out more: HDR monitor at max brightness, increase playback speed to 2x Try not to follow the movement, but keep your eyes on a fixed location (e.g. a speck of dust on your screen)

Yeah I can too but I have done psychedelics in the past, despite not having any HPPD symptoms.

I believe it is WE LOVE YOU with some aliens.

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