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Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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637 points robinhouston | 3 comments | 05 Jun 23 07:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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redox99 ◴[06 Jun 23 08:32 UTC] No.36209858[source]▶
You can see the messages if you take a long exposure shot (2s) from your phone

Here are the photos from my phone

https://imgur.com/a/WOqbQVo

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dandanua ◴[06 Jun 23 14:30 UTC] No.36213383[source]▶
So, psychedelics can give you a longer exposure vision.

It might be useful for looking at stars and galaxies. Not so much for everything else.

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1. MacsHeadroom ◴[06 Jun 23 15:27 UTC] No.36214320[source]▶
It's not just vision!

Psychedelics give all perceptions including mental concepts "long exposure" as well, causing them to overlap in ways which rarely happen sober.

This allows for forming wholly new connections and insights otherwise out of reach for the sober mind.

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2. jackmott42 ◴[06 Jun 23 17:54 UTC] No.36216597[source]▶
Citation? I have done a few and didn't really experience anything like that. Most things to me seemed somewhat shallow just like this visual trick.

It was fun though!

3. LoganDark ◴[06 Jun 23 19:00 UTC] No.36217503[source]▶
> Psychedelics give all perceptions including mental concepts "long exposure" as well, causing them to overlap in ways which rarely happen sober.

> This allows for forming wholly new connections and insights otherwise out of reach for the sober mind.

For me, LSD seemed to reveal some brand new type of thought or concept that could be recognized by the sound or impression that it made. My speech center would spit out complete gibberish when fed these types of thoughts. Actual quotes I typed while on LSD:

"can have a haves and take a three sixteenth quarters"

"can have an um somethings or others .... mmm much of somethings or others.... can havings a taken umpteenth very good time ...."

Normal thoughts for me are based on words and images, but these ones were based on some sort of "proximity". I could somehow sense the strength of certain patterns, recognize them, and manipulate them, even if they had no actual meaning. It felt like I got to re-learn very basic fundamental concepts in the form of this brand new type of thought. Some of them just felt pleasant to think about even if I didn't know what they meant, so I'd commonly find them looping in the background. I still find this extremely fascinating and it's probably one of the biggest reasons why I hope to have more psychedelic trips in the future.

I learned plenty of patterns and have plenty of memories of them, but seemingly can't decode those memories when sober, probably because those mental patterns simply aren't visible to me right now. I can remember certain types of artifacts generated by them though, like the gibberish words, some sounds, etc., at least the ones I committed to memory.