Author Topic: Trippy (Read 5216 times)

BryanP · « **on:** November 03, 2011, 09:55:11 PM »

Try staring at this for 30 seconds and then stare around the room. If you've got a textured ceiling it really seems to make the effect much more noticeable.

http://neave.com/strobe/

Nick1911 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2011, 11:41:29 PM »

Well, that was odd.

I have to imagine that's what hallucinogens are like?

Azrael256 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2011, 11:49:56 PM »

There's only one way to find out...

Nick1911 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2011, 11:58:28 PM »

Quote from: Azrael256 on November 03, 2011, 11:49:56 PM

There's only one way to find out...

Eh, none for me, thanks. Although if someone has done em in a past life, I'd be interested to hear if there's any comparison with this eye trick.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #4 on:** November 04, 2011, 12:00:58 AM »

That was interesting.

Hallucinogens produce all sorts of effects: objects glowing, lit cigarettes leaving streaks in the air as you move them around, things having iridescent colors to them, etc. The ones you don't want are bodies crawling out of ditches, hanging from buildings, things like that. If the person with you is tripping, too, then asking him if that stuff is real is useless. He'll just see it, too.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #5 on:** November 04, 2011, 08:09:03 AM »

Quote from: Nick1911 on November 03, 2011, 11:58:28 PM

Eh, none for me, thanks. Although if someone has done em in a past life, I'd be interested to hear if there's any comparison with this eye trick.

yes hypothetically speaking

280plus · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2011, 08:42:53 AM »

Interesting but I vote no. Only from what I hear of course.

lee n. field · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2011, 08:59:20 AM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on November 04, 2011, 12:00:58 AM

If the person with you hallucinate is with you is tripping, too, then asking him if that stuff is real is useless. He'll just see it, too.

FIFY

Nick1911 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2011, 09:08:54 AM »

I'm not listening to you. I mean, what does a SQUIRREL know about mental health?

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2011, 09:37:54 AM »

Quote from: Nick1911 on November 04, 2011, 09:08:54 AM

I'm not listening to you. I mean, what does a SQUIRREL know about mental health?

Probably a lot more than the professionals.

BryanP · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:42:55 AM »

The only hallucination I've ever had came as a result of exhaustion / sleep deprivation, so I can't really judge.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:58:11 AM »

Quote from: BryanP on November 05, 2011, 06:42:55 AM

The only hallucination I've ever had came as a result of exhaustion / sleep deprivation, so I can't really judge.

BTDT zoned out on coffee, no doze, Mountain Dew and anything else that is legal.

French G. · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2011, 08:36:31 AM »

Yeah, one of my cues to pack it in when driving at night is when the lines start to float up into space or the mailboxes begin to walk across the road.

I pulled a Tommy Boy yesterday, caught a few hours of sleep in a little construction yard next to a railroad. That crap will wake you up in a hurry!

Jamie B · « **Reply #13 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:05:07 PM »

Quote from: BryanP on November 05, 2011, 06:42:55 AM

The only hallucination I've ever had came as a result of exhaustion / sleep deprivation, so I can't really judge.

Percocet, after the last 2 knee surgeries, caused some really wild dreams.

I stopped them quickly.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:22:44 PM »

I hope everyone understands that I'm not condoning the use of hallucinogens, just relating my experience from the 1960's.

Extreme sleep depravation can cause some of the same effects. I've had that, too.

On my last acid trip in 1976, I was having a bad trip, and went into my friend's bathroom. He had very loud metallic patterned wallpaper that probably produced an effect much like the pattern at the link in the OP.

S. Williamson · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:59:26 PM »

For some people

the hallucination is more of a distortion of time and space, meaning a bathroom the size of a gymnasium and a song on the radio (not Free Bird) lasting an hour or so. And getting completely lost a block away from ~~your~~ their starting point.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2011, 10:41:13 PM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on November 05, 2011, 06:22:44 PM

I hope everyone understands that I'm not condoning the use of hallucinogens, just relating my experience from the 1960's.

Extreme sleep depravation can cause some of the same effects. I've had that, too.

On my last acid trip in 1976, I was having a bad trip, and went into my friend's bathroom. He had very loud metallic patterned wallpaper that probably produced an effect much like the pattern at the link in the OP.

House we almost bought 2 years ago had that type of wallpaper in it. Reminded me of a 70's porn movie.

Blakenzy · « **Reply #17 on:** November 06, 2011, 12:09:05 AM »

I have never had a hallucinating experience but I am curious to hear about perceptions on the topic. Most people are very quick to distance themselves from the act, yet remain quite fascinated by the phenomenon.

Is there a moral difference between hallucinating off of "legal" methods (strobe on screen, sleep deprivation, dehydration, heat stroke) and "illegal" ones (see DEA web page)? Is the depth or realism of the hallucination what determines whether or not it is reprehensible? Why is it that ways of hallucinating that usually pose a health risk are "legal" (and safer methods are illegal)? Is hallucinating in and of itself an immoral act, regardless of method? And lastly, if you hallucinate after midnight, do you wake up a hippie?

RevDisk · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2011, 12:20:39 AM »

Only hallucination I've had was when I was really sick. I remember my alarm clock telling me how to build stuff. A friend told me I told the alarm clock that while I appreciated the information, I was very tired and wish it'd just STFU so I could sleep.

Quote from: wmenorr67 on November 05, 2011, 06:58:11 AM

BTDT zoned out on coffee, no doze, Mountain Dew and anything else that is legal.

Trick of the trade. After X hours, caffeine is counterproductive or ineffective. Snort a line of sugar. The pain and sugar rush will wake you right up.

Sleep deprivation makes everything look comfy. Even cold, damp boulders.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #19 on:** November 06, 2011, 12:22:41 AM »

I don't know that I'd say that "safer" methods are illegal. A lot of the supposed LSD, mescaline, and other drugs were cut with or contained some pretty scary stuff, such as arsenic. Arsenic itself gives an interesting hallucinogenic experience, after the nausea wears off. (And I wanted to kill the guy who gave it to me as a gift when I found out what was in it).

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Only hallucination I've had was when I was really sick. I remember my alarm clock telling me how to build stuff. A friend told me I told the alarm clock that while I appreciated the information, I was very tired and wish it'd just STFU so I could sleep.

It wasn't a strawberry alarm clock, was it? (Sorry, really bad joke--and band).

S. Williamson · « **Reply #20 on:** November 06, 2011, 01:15:09 AM »

Quote from: RevDisk on November 06, 2011, 12:20:39 AM

Sleep deprivation makes everything look comfy. Even cold, damp boulders.

God, don't I know that.

There was one instance where my mind was running exclusively this:

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10 INSPECTOBJECT: "PATCH OF GROUND"
20 IF: "HORSE CRAP" FOUND GOTO 30
30 FINDNEW: "PATCH OF GROUND" GOTO 10
40 IF: "HORSE CRAP" NOT FOUND GOTO 50

Odd to see what the mind defaults to after a horse-thrown concussion.

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