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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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Post by Traubenfuchs »

Retr0id wrote: post #18

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)

> increase playback speed to 2x

But that's cheating -make it fast enough any anyone can see it I suppose.

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

DonHopkins wrote: post #32

People who haven't used psychedelics don't tend to get or appreciate The Congress as much as those who have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGhw4nACfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAl5GwvdY8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqzaZcivh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMI8HWhqEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBl43lMJY0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

This is absolutely amazing to me -how would one go about finding more gems like that?

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

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Post by 2-718-281-828 »

dieselgate wrote: post #23

This is a very cool post. It’s a bit funny to see the HN crowd polarized with how best to view the messages but doesn’t seem anyone has viewed yet under psychedelics

also wondered about that. nobody here from the valley who'd up the micro dose today and confirm the claim?

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

pbj1968 wrote: post #28

None of this is real. Don’t fuck with your brain, pal, it ain’t worth it.

Do you not suffer from how painfully boring reality and the default mode of consciousness are?

How can one stand decades of stagnation without the desire to escape?

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

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Post by wingerlang »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #30
stavros wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, thanks! I can't make out anything resembling a lion, but I imagine I need to be higher for that.

Haha yeah it's harder for me to see now also. Two of the leaves of the lotus are darker those are his eyes, the white flower & female buddha are his tongue. The white skin of people are his hairs. When sober it feels farfetched, but it's all much clearer on a substance :)

Any chance you can draw on top of the image? I don't really know where to begin to look from your description.

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

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Post by dist-epoch »

> At a theoretical level, this confirmation is significant because it is the first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states of consciousness.

This is a pretty strong claim, considering that while psychedelic states of consciousness do allow you to see these messages, they also have a lot of other side effects.

I'm pretty sure you can do the reverse too, create a message which can only be seen in a normal state of consciousness - for example you use the same tracer phenomenon to obscure instead of to reveal the message.

So a psychedelic state is not strictly superior to normal state, it's just different.

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