Doing hallucinogens can open your mind to seeing the innerworkings of your body. Literally. It reduces filters in your brain and makes you see things that you learned to ignore as a baby. Like when it's dark and you can see rainbows—that's the residual static signal from all of the cone cells in your eyes. You can see the rainbows during the day if you know what to look for, but it's more pronounced after doing psychedelics.
Also while doing psychedelics it's common to see form constants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
These are geometric patterns hypothesized to be caused by the specific shape and neural connections within the retina and visual cortex. Literally, you are seeing the shape of the cells in your eyes and the network of their interconnections.
It is believed that the reason why these form constants appear has to do with the way the visual system is organized, and in particular in the mapping between patterns on the retina and the columnar organization of the primary visual cortex. Concentric circles in the retina are mapped into parallel lines in the visual cortex. Spirals, tunnels, lattices and cobwebs map into lines in different directions. This means that if activation spreads in straight lines within the visual cortex, the experience is equivalent to looking at actual form constants.
Title: Re: Let's do drugs
Post by: Diabolizer on December 18, 2024, 10:58:32 pm
Doing hallucinogens can open your mind to seeing the innerworkings of your body. Literally. It reduces filters in your brain and makes you see things that you learned to ignore as a baby. Like when it's dark and you can see rainbows—that's the residual static signal from all of the cone cells in your eyes. You can see the rainbows during the day if you know what to look for, but it's more pronounced after doing psychedelics.
Also while doing psychedelics it's common to see form constants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
These are geometric patterns hypothesized to be caused by the specific shape and neural connections within the retina and visual cortex. Literally, you are seeing the shape of the cells in your eyes and the network of their interconnections.
It is believed that the reason why these form constants appear has to do with the way the visual system is organized, and in particular in the mapping between patterns on the retina and the columnar organization of the primary visual cortex. Concentric circles in the retina are mapped into parallel lines in the visual cortex. Spirals, tunnels, lattices and cobwebs map into lines in different directions. This means that if activation spreads in straight lines within the visual cortex, the experience is equivalent to looking at actual form constants.
I don't need to do drugs to trip. I just let go of reality.
Title: Re: Let's do drugs
Post by: rachel on December 19, 2024, 12:34:29 am
Please refer to my previous post, I already explained this
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Doing hallucinogens can open your mind to seeing the innerworkings of your body. Literally. It reduces filters in your brain and makes you see things that you learned to ignore as a baby.
To me, doing drugs is akin to glitching out a computer program.
Cannabis impacts your memory, it's like periodically deleting your computer's RAM while it's running.
LSD and psilocybin is like circuit bending, literally creating new pathways between parts of your brain that weren't connected before. This is why it makes you see colors and fractals, you're getting junk data from other parts of your brain passed to your visual cortex.
Alcohol is like adding packet loss to your nerves. It interferes with signals from being sent and received between various parts of your mind and body, this is why it numbs you and slows you down. Much like in a computer system you have to constantly resend lost information, slowing down the total communication throughput.
Ketamine is like turning off entire subsystems. When you're in a k-hole you've basically turned off anything related to visual and motor processing. It can feel nice to reboot every once in a while.
Essentially, different drugs can either expand or shrink your experience of reality. Dissociatives and deliriants make you experience less. Psychedelics and stimulants make you experience more.
Title: Re: Let's do drugs
Post by: Diabolizer on December 19, 2024, 09:12:59 pm
If they had this sign when I was using, I never would have stopped.
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Title: Re: Let's do drugs
Post by: Fishmé on January 08, 2025, 12:30:18 pm
It started out as just casual reading. A fantasy novel here, a sci-fi one there. It was college, everyone read like that. But when the party stopped, I continued to read. I started to work at a high stakes law firm. It was the kind of place where even the partners would keep full shelves of books in their office. I'd get home and read 1, maybe 2 books, and then go out to have a book with my coworkers. I thought I was just adjusting to the stress of adult life. But things got worse. I started having fights with my wife about the number of books I was buying. I promised her that I could stop at any time, but I had secretly started reading autobiographies behind her back. Things got worse. My wife left me, my prestigious job fired me when I'd read so much that I couldn't walk straight. I knew my story was reaching its final page when I bought Eat, Pray, Love. That's when I realized it had to stop and checked myself into Heritage House. The people there showed me that I could fill my time watching stupid shit on tic-toc or play video games instead. I turned my life around and haven't bought a book in over a year. So if you are struggling with reading addiction, know that there is treatment and there is hope. Thank you for reading this.
Title: Re: Let's do drugs
Post by: rothen on August 21, 2025, 05:00:59 pm
It started out as just casual reading. A fantasy novel here, a sci-fi one there. It was college, everyone read like that. But when the party stopped, I continued to read. I started to work at a high stakes law firm. It was the kind of place where even the partners would keep full shelves of books in their office. I'd get home and read 1, maybe 2 books, and then go out to have a book with my coworkers. I thought I was just adjusting to the stress of adult life. But things got worse. I started having fights with my wife about the number of books I was buying. I promised her that I could stop at any time, but I had secretly started reading autobiographies behind her back. Things got worse. My wife left me, my prestigious job fired me when I'd read so much that I couldn't walk straight. I knew my story was reaching it's final page when I bought Eat, Pray, Love. That's when I realized it had to stop and checked myself into Heritage House. The people there showed me that I could fill my time watching stupid shit on tic-toc or play video games instead. I turned my life around and haven't bought a book in over a year. So if you are struggling with reading addiction, know that there is treatment and there is hope. Thank you for reading this.