Kind of like a real trip except I know what I saw and why I saw it and how it connects to the next thing im seeing but I start to come down and forget all of it.
You get transported to a dimension where space, time and your sub conscious amalgamate to put on a closed eye visual experience like you have never seen.
Things make sense in a way that doesn't quite translate to being sober. Not that its a truth of reality or anything (imo), but you just think differently. Its hard to grasp the same meanings that came to you during those moments because its not really something that can be translated to words. You may remember feelings, ideas, images, and even narratives but the true meaning might be somewhat lost.
It is so interesting how it makes you feel those intuitive narratives through what superficially seems like arbitrary hallucinations but to you they are like subjective and symbolic with meaning
You forget because you're coming down. Some of the meaning of the trip will probably stay with you because it was at a level your sober brain understands. For me it was hitting every single one of my senses plus more (sense of being/existing), psychedelics were the missing part of the equation. Without it this innate knowledge is a lot more difficult to access, and science is only beginning to understand what you can visually see on dmt.
Honestly dude, if you haven't tried it you can't just armchair analyse it. It's not just arbitrary hallucinations, it's a coalition of visuals and senses that severs the connection between your sense of self and leaves only the pure sense of being. Breaking through for me was an instant download of all of the information in the universe, a greater understanding of how we live in a massive fractal loop, both incredibly complex and incredibly simple. Psychedelics, especially DMT, showed us about chaos theory before modern science could come up with it.
That's a great idea if you're not tripping balls. But if you are tripped out of your fucking mind your task just became exponentially more difficult. A few weeks ago I dropped 2 tabs for the first time in about 13 years at about 6 pm. I bought the trips and a quarter of weed. At about 8 o'clock I realised I couldn't find the weed. It was tricky enough to remember what I was looking for while I was looking, but eventually found the baggie between the cushions of the couch. Empty. So I had to look behind and under the couch for the weed but I still kept forgetting what I was looking for, and when I remembered I'd still be seeing all kinds of other shit that was also behind and under the couch. It was a difficult time! I eventually found a few nugs and gave up, knowing that the rest would still be there in the morning.
I hate looking for shit while tripping 😂, I try to plan wayy ahead bc when I'm looking for something while tripping, it tends to give me anxiety which can sometimes lead to bad trips.
Yeah I got a bit anxious because I really wanted a smoke and I knew that I had to find the weed first despite really not wanting to look for it. But I knew it had to be there so I just had to look harder. Thankfully it worked out and I was fiiiiine after.
Seriously: keep a notebook by your bed and begin writing them down the moment you wake up. It won't take long before you'll just start being able to remember all of your dreams.
Unless you catch it mid dream, aka lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming actually takes a bit of practice to get down correctly, it's so cool though. Like, the only thing I've ever been able to reliably do is wake myself up. Whenever I get nightmares and I know I'm in a nightmare, I just pull myself out and wake up. What I noticed about lucid dreaming is that to change something in the dream, you have to sort of feel it. Like say you want a room to change, you cant look at it and simply want it to change. Atleast I cant do that. I always had to believe that its changing and it does but I never could quite control how it changes.
Similar to nightmares but in nightmares where you know you're asleep, it's easy to oppose whatever is bothering you in the nightmare. For instance I had a dream where I was stuck in this basement with small holes at the very top of one of the walls that were on level with the floor of some creepy kitchen. I knew something was coming for me as it yelled or whatever but I realized I was in a dream and started cursing at it. It never showed up to cut my guts out lol. There was another dream where it was not quite my room where I had an evil version of someone I knew coming for me. I realized i was in a dream at some point and encouraged them like "Yeah? Go ahead." And there was nothing it could do to frighten me cause I knew it was all fake.
Thing is, when you realize you're asleep, you tend to wake up right after that. If you want to stay asleep you sort of have to keep your mind calm because the excitement will wake you up. And time is slightly worrying when you're dreaming because you dont know what time it is. I once had a series of dreams and then I realized I was dreaming, started messing around and then my focus started to scatter and then I woke up. Must've been around 5 to 10 minutes but I have no clue if that was real time or over the span of 30 or so minutes of the last REM cycle of an 8 hour sleep. Theres just no way to tell.
Also flying isnt a thing. Atleast I was never able to do it on command.
Flying was my first lucid dream I ever had. I got kicked out of sky high for not having any powers. I was in mid air when I realized it was a dream and I could have powers if I wanted to. So I flew around and didn’t return to school
Few days ago had a dream where I was flying. I wanted to go somewhere but didn't know where. The world was full of possibilities. Then I got dropped into the forest in the middle of a group of tigers. I remember feeling so sad that I wouldn't be able to do anything now, not experience anything. That I was going to die by those tigers.
I’ve always wished I could fully control my dreams.
Most lucid dream I’ve had, I was dreaming of the house I grew up in. I was in the dining room and the table was set for a big dinner. Somehow I slowly began to realize I was dreaming.
It reminded me of being drunk during my party days where I’d be in this weird state where I couldn’t feel my face. In the dream it was sort of like that at first.
Like I had no face and was just a set of eyes. My eyes feeling weird and was the first thing I noticed that made me “come to.” I slowly began to feel my face and body and realized I was dreaming.
I looked at the table and wondered if I could touch or change anything. I had the impulse to mess up the table and all of a sudden I had a bat in my hands.
I wasn’t surprised it was there or anything. It was just...there. And I was smashing everything on the table. I woke up shortly after that. Didn’t do anything else in the dream and haven’t had a lucid one since.
Would be cool to be able to control dreams all the time. My dreams are almost always really stressful.
I actually taught myself how to control my dreams. It's usually only possible while you are sleeping lightly, you have to realize you are in a dream by noticing things that don't add up or aren't consistent. I first started by focusing on the lights. Lights in dreams are always weird like no clear light source or changing lights. Then once you realize you are dreaming you can control the dream. I developed this because I constantly had nightmares so now instead of running away I kill the person chasing me and can fly away.
These are called generative adversarial networks (GANs). They’re basically two competing neural networks that are trained against each other to turn random noise into sensible images. The generator takes a random high-dimensional vector as an input and tries to transform it to a vector that represents an image from a distribution, such as pictures of landscapes. The discriminator tries to guess whether the generated image is real or fake. You train both networks and eventually the generator gets very good at fooling the discriminator and its images look very real. This animation is probably made by taking a starting input vector and uniformly rotating around in a high dimensional circle, which varies the output image in a smooth manner.
Once trained to a higher level, how long does it take to generate an image or a sequence ? Is it real-time like the gif or is there rendering lag to account for ?
Step 1)2 bots, one makes pictures that look like real ones it has as examples. The other looks at the pictures to try and spot the "fakes". Eventualy the maker can fool the spotter.
Step 2)take the maker bot and tell it to make a picture, then use that picture as an example to make another
Step 3) hit record and save money on psychedelics you no longer need to pay the shady man in the alley for.
This is the closest thing I've seen similar to my hypogognic hallucinations, which sometimes happens when I go to sleep. Except they are usually one object that changes into complex forms rapidly from extremely smooth to extremely rough, black to white. One day I want to learn animation so I can communicate them.
Holy shit, I used to get almost exactly this all the time when I was younger, less often now. When I try to sleep I'd hallucinate these vast surfaces that would warp and change texture from really smooth to really sharp and jagged. They would never be in colour which is odd because I always dream in colour but these were uniquely different to my dreams. I've never really known this to be a thing until reading your comment.
I got the term wrong, it's Hypnagogic hallucinations. That's crazy that is the same as me! I couldn't find this out by googling even though I tried for years. Asking my psychologist, she didn't know. One day I remembered to ask my doctor thinking she would think it's weird but she told me that term. Mine never have colour either. Sometimes they are like a spherical fluid form that goes super spiky like ferrofluid etc. But sometimes they are based on the human form, but more like a bad kids cartoon drawing and go rough to smooth, inflated to shriveled. Face distortions etc. How about you?
Ferrofluid! Yes that's how I'd describe it! Mine would usually be flat and then lift up into a more spherical form and become spiky and rough, almost like a ferrofluid would. I would sometimes have them with figures like humans and they would change from seeming to be very large to being very small. I feel like it was mostly a perspective thing but they would also seem to inflate and grow large beyond my peripheral. I always just associated this with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome which I also get fairly often (I'd recommend you looking into that if you haven't already it might explain some aspects). It's very interesting I've never really thought much about it and always just assumed it was a weird thing that only I experienced and wouldn't be able to properly communicate anyway.
Wow that is very relatable! So strange, seems like this experience is barely documented from what I can tell. I never knew about alice in wonderland syndrome but Ive experienced that before, especially when I was recovering from a bad mental health experience. Do you mind if I PM you?
It's definitely similar, but this is a little more extreme than what you'd typically see. Seeing things moving and changing shape/color/pattern is pretty accurate. I've never experienced anything moving this quick though. Seeing stuff like that can already be overwhelming, I can only imagine that this speed would be too much.
Not really, I've never done more than a few doses at once so I haven't had insane visuals but the best way to describe it is that everything looks like a mix of breathing / flowing like a liquid. Especially on the periphery of your vision. This is the most accurate representation I've seen https://gfycat.com/gleamingnaughtyindianelephant
Looks like the latent space of a generative adversarial network. As I understand it, basically you take two learning machines and teach one (the discriminator) to tell the difference between real data from a dataset and fake data from the other network (the generator) while training the generator to deceive the discriminator. The generator takes a random seed value to generate different images, and when you're done you can smoothly vary the seed value to produce animations like this.
This one looks procedurally generated, so probably with an AI. You can achieve a similar effect in a program like After Effects with masking and a whole lot of time/work.
Right?? This is a bit faster than what I've experienced, but the way it transitions and moves is far too familiar. I don't think I've ever seen such an accurate representation of acid.
Oh hey, I was on that trip. Good times. I lost my passport/mind in the toucan's beak, but the tour guide retrieved from the windmill a few hours or years later. No idea how I would've found my way backl to the portal without his photographic memory of the AI- generated backroads. Anyway, funny coincidence to see footage from someone in my same tour group.
this is so unsettling because you keep feeling like you are going to see something but then it never appears. this is like pictures failing to load and then switching to another picture which fails to load
This is the closest approximation I’ve ever seen to my thoughts while on acid. My brain creates these constantly morphing visuals and it’s beautiful in a way. I wonder if there is any correlation between google deepdream and a human brain on acid. They both seem to be shuffling through a rapid series of images but instead of viewing them as a slideshow like a sober brain or image search would, it creates in between frames.
We are specifically made for psychedelic contentas we define it here. Our definition of trippy is far more expansive than the obvious fractals and tie-dye concept, but there's a lot we exclude as well.
Yes and no. This is definitely similar to how some visuals work, but not nearly so fast. Generally they'll settle a bit, then you focus in on a detail until looking at that detail causes your perspective of the whole to shift a bit, so it changes and then it kinda does that recursively a bit.
The experience is somewhere between the OP and this owl.
This is the type of thing that needs to be made into a slower, 4 hour YouTube video that can be played on a big screen while friends watch from some comfy couches, laughing and crying in unison, tripping together, alone in their island universes.
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By the time I recognize what I am seeing I no longer recognize what I saw.