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What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

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Post by mathieuh »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #18
zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #2

I tried 2C-E a couple times a long time ago. I think it was a relatively low dose. It was really interesting how mentally I felt mostly sober. But the visuals were so intense I got motion sick. It started out with tracers as I waved my hand. The textured paint on the walls looked extra 3D and the walls started to breath. The swirly pattern on the bathroom linoleum looked like chocolate milk. My posters turned into ca…

2C-B was more my thing (when I could get it). Fast and powerful. Like LSD but without the 12 hour trip plus body aches.

2C-B never had any headspace effects for me except in very high insufflated doses (and even then it was minimal), taking normal doses orally would just give me a couple of hours of visuals. For me it was nothing like LSD in terms of headspace.

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Post by LoganDark »

when i take lsd i almost seem to gain the ability to see and hear my thoughts. i can imagine stuff with my mind's eye normally, but with lsd it's like i can see concepts directly. it feels like instead of thinking in words like usual it's like i can think with raw energy or something and i have more access to things

also it's a lot easier for me to recall like trauma and other buried stuff when i'm on lsd

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Post by ge96 »

For DMT it's immediate. Even closing your eyes you see colors (flashes of light). I was sitting at a wooden table and the grain patterns were moving especially the circular placemat in front of me with concentric rings. And I remember being scared of my own arm like wtf is that. It was brief though minute or two it was over.

I have not done LSD or mushrooms as I have a bad childhood/repressed memories and I worry of having a bad trip.

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Post by LoganDark »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #21
guardian5x wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that kinda scary? I mean when some parts of your brains don't work or not work properly?

Depends on your attitude. I consider life and reality incredibly, painfully boring. That's why I LOVE alternate states of mind, even if they are scary. Nothing excites me more than the prospect of feeling thing and seeing things I have not experienced before.

> Nothing excites me more than the prospect of feeling thing and seeing things I have not experienced before.

absolutely same

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Post by GuB-42 »

qwertox wrote: post #26

Hah, this now prompted me to ask ChatGPT to tell me about Erowid and the most remarkable things it read there, and we're chatting along over bad trips and it telling me how apparently heroin can't fix a bad trip, and it comes up with quotes from which I have to assume that they are just hallucinations, but "funny" ones if one thinks about them just having gotten made up by an AI: > Every bad sensation was magnified a…

> which I have to assume that they are just hallucinations

They definitely are, in one way or another ;)

Re: What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

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Post by Workaccount2 »

Interestingly, there is a drug call datura, a beautiful white flower you can find all over suburbia, whose seeds when drank in a tea are an extremely powerful deliriant.

If you read the trip reports of it (which are pretty fascinating tbh) you notice a common trend of people hallucinating that they are smoking a cigarette, and then they drop it, only to search around and be unable to find it. This is usually one of the first tip-offs they have that something is happening before they totally get lost in the void. Really fascinating how many people on there had this same common experience while taking datura specifically.

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Post by throwaway183785 »

mathieuh wrote: post #31
FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2C-B was more my thing (when I could get it). Fast and powerful. Like LSD but without the 12 hour trip plus body aches.

2C-B never had any headspace effects for me except in very high insufflated doses (and even then it was minimal), taking normal doses orally would just give me a couple of hours of visuals. For me it was nothing like LSD in terms of headspace.

Agree - my experience with 2C-B was that it was almost entirely visual (tracers and such), with a very subtle mood lift, akin to very weak MDMA.

2C-E on the other hand sent me to some extremely trippy places. 2C-P is a fascinating one to read about too (though I've never tried it.)

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Post by tayo42 »

My dmt trips never felt like the ones I read about online. They were crazy and impactful every time. (I kept a dmt journal durring covid lol) But visuals were always 2d, geometric, I never saw some of the common things people described. Or seemingly common idk. The way trip reports sound were there were alternate worlds to wander around, 3d beings interacting. I think I used to dab about 20mg, I'd have to look it up.

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Post by machine_ghost »

"We also looked at different types of psychedelics and didn’t see any systematic differences there."

This was the most fascinating finding to me. I really wouldn't have expected Salvia, Acid, Shrooms, etc. to all produce the same hallucinations ... but I guess ultimately they're all operating on the same core neurochemicals, so I guess it makes sense.

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Post by nthingtohide »

NickC25 wrote: post #4

Have no idea what variant of LSD I last consumed, but I remember some deep feelings of profound thoughts and self-reflection quite almost instantly when the stuff "hit" (maybe 30-45 minutes after ingestion), I was still cognizant enough to be able to write it all down. Some of what I wrote was indeed stuff I needed to work on in my own life and it was pretty helpful. I then spent the next like 12 hours on my couch re…

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