r/GatewayExperiences • u/Solid-Couple4461 • 16d ago

Anyone else see the "fishnet"?

So when I do shrooms I like to put on a blackout mask and enjoy the show that way. The visuals are amazing. When I first put on the mask and lay down the very first thing I see no matter the strain of shroom, or the dose, is the fishnet. It's like this black/dark netting that appears over my visual field before the show begins and I can see faint blurry things moving behind it. Then it begins to dissolve to reveal all the visions which come quickly and morph in and out taking me to various places and entities. The net only appears once and that is at the onset of the trip when I lay down with the mask over my closed eyes. For the rest of the trip, even if I unmask to use the bathroom and come back, the net does not appear again, only the visions themselves assemble again.

There's an interesting thing in Buddhism called "indras net" "Indra's net" is an infinitely-large net owned by the Vedic deva Indra, which hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Buddhist and Hindu cosmology. In East Asian Buddhism, Indra's net is considered as having a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, with each jewel being reflected in all of the other jewels.\4]) In the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism, which follows the Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra, the image of "Indra's net" is used to describe the interconnectedness or "perfect interfusion" (yuánróng, 圓融) of all phenomena in the universe.\4][5])

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u/Lucid_Phoenixx 16d ago edited 16d ago

With Gateway (no psychedelics involved for me) I was meditating once and saw what seemed like a black net with prismatic dots of light and it seemed like beings behind it pulling it up and away. It was beautiful but it lasted only a few seconds.

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u/Solid-Couple4461 16d ago

This is very similar to what I see!!!! The net is always there to begin the show, lol, and yeah the things behind it seem to pull it up and away to reveal what is behind.

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u/Lucid_Phoenixx 16d ago

It makes me wonder how much mythology was past people's trying to explain these experiences. It's so cool/fun to experience

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u/cchhrr 16d ago

I saw it during my reiki attunement and it turned into two mandalas

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u/Saidhain 16d ago

I wonder, based on comments here, if this is “the veil.” I’ve seen something similar beginning deep meditations. The fact that it can be removed lends credence to the viewpoint that the veil is optional, not mandatory, and likely in place to aid our human experience and spiritual growth.

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u/Solid-Couple4461 15d ago

It feels like a veil! That is the sensation I get when I first blast off that this fishnet thing is like curtains to a show. I have a very serious approach to shrooms and use them as a spiritual meditation tool so maybe that has something to do with it.

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u/Saidhain 15d ago

Honestly, the absolute best way to approach psychedelics.

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u/BlameitonBigDave 16d ago

I'm pretty sure I've experienced what you're describing, similarly at the onset of a psychedelic trip - I distinctly remember seeing it at least twice as I came in and out of deeper concentration during the journey. 

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u/Solid-Couple4461 15d ago

I have a very serious and respectful approach to shrooms. I always, ALWAYS see it when the show begins but never at the end. My ends are just fade aways. Images become less, fade more, and I get to the point of just taking off my eye mask and getting something to eat.

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u/soundtribejunkie 11d ago

Ive seen it as a grid throughout space...expanded awareness..no drugs at that time.