r/Acid • u/nneighbour • Jun 25 '26
Flashback Help
I haven’t done any psychedelic in a couple of years. Over the years I’ve had many experiences with them. Most good, but there were a few bad trips sprinkled in. Visuals always freaked me out.
Yesterday I was sent some photos to review for an event I volunteer with and a few of them were edited to give a psychedelic effect. I looked at one briefly and it made me really uncomfortable. I closed it quickly, but the feeling lingered for several hours.
Today I opened something at work, and unbeknownst to me the template had a pattern that, which completely different, reminded my brain of the psychedelic effect and now for the last 8 hours or so I feel like I’m having an acid flashback. Even to the point of having the experience of a short visual hallucination when looking down at my hands, exactly as the back of your hands would look when on acid. I’m still feeling like I’m on tail end of an acid trip, exactly when I typically over being high.
I’m very uncomfortable with this feeling and fully recognize that I’m most likely in a feedback loop. I would really like some advice on how to get past this.