Visuals/General Acid Discussion

I love the visuals on acid and want to show them to other people but I cant seem to find any on the internet that really convey what the experience is really like. The images are all just tie-die swirly images, my visuals are usually letters EVERYWHERE and puzzle/heiroglyphic-like patterns. I want to discuss visuals I get on acid with other people who take it.

Also just for discussions sake, Ive been taking lots of acid lately and am kind of in a permanent flashback or kind of perma-fried, I mean I constantly see tracers and can see patterns on my arm when I want to. I am detached from reality.

 

yeah friend don't worry about your second comment. after effects can stick around indefinitely. sometimes I think maybe there's something wrong with me, but then I remember that it wasn't technically the acid that authored those visuals, they are from my own brain; lucy just sorta left the door open when she left..........as for describing the visuals; I type lengthy trip stories but describing the visuals is something I generally leave out since I haven't found any adequate way to describe them. they can be unbelievably graphic and systemic, and then organic or humanistic. I bring them back as I meditate. I see infinite numbers of people, multitudes of them. sometimes they are bound to each other as jewels on a necklace, streaming along the conduit through cosmos. or they will form perfect circles, bound to each other by the limbs, completing the circle so it can roll through eternity alongside an infinite number of other aggregate circles consisting of other creatures who're the same but different. or they will form a liquid stream, like a school of fish only squeezed tighter together as one flowing organism of many different colored cells. or all the people will combine into one concrete humanoid, then re-emerge out of the ruptured head of that humanoid. but this is a mere fraction. if I could describe most of what i've seen i'd also be able to tell you about each cell in my body, each with its own signature personalities.

 

ps sorry about the one long paragraph. I typed it on my phone which won't let me space it. also sorry for this double post, also due to the phone. cheers

 

My visuals generally involve textures and patterns, but not symbols. It is hard to describe.. understandably. When we use words to describe things, we can only describe things that we have all seen before. Humans dont have words for most of the hallucinations they experience, because you cant point at a hallucination/visual and come to an agreement with another person.
Artists try to re-create the experience, but it will only ever include aspects of the experience that we can abstract.
But it is still good to try and describe them. Why dont you just have a go. Spill out all you can about your experience. It is interesting because symbols are no longer a part of my world while I'm tripping.

 

I gave up trying to explain it and convey the message of trying it. The more people that experience it, the better the world will become.

 

You aren't detached from reality. You are just experiencing "reality" in your own subjective way, much like every being on the planet does.

 

^agree with doc trip.

I am a bit of a writer and my attempts to explain the experiance are just grossly inadequite.

You either KNOW or you just don't know.

and you're not goin crazy man, you have a different perspective. if you take LSD too often, your perspective is constantly changing, which can be difficult to integrate, but is in itsself another way of understanding... LIFE and the UNIVERSE are in a state of neverending flux, so if you change also, you are just being natural.

Don't worry. Maybe space out your trips some to bring back the "specialness"

 

well i'm no acid-head, i've done it maybe 20 times and the most at once was 3 hits with a tolerance.

the visuals i see are pulsing or "breathing." movement, spots of colors on my crawling skin...dust growing on my mind's command...the toilet growing and shrinking....my face sliding and swirling around, orange hues in the dark sky with the clouds flying past (the sky was mostly as it appears to a sober mind)

so more than the visuals is the openness, the state of mind that goes along with the visuals that make them...better i guess.

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y9uYEM2osYQ <--- Very cool

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h9EpnVAl5JA <---- Not as realistic, but helps a little.

But the only way to really know what it's like is by doing it.

 

I envy all of you who can readily get LSD for decent prices...

 

the very cool video IS very cool. that makes my skin look like it's crawling pretty much exactly as it has before on L.

the second video was cool too, but like you said not very realistic.

and i envy them too.

 

I think the second video is much better

 

Does anyone else see trillions of letters whilst tripping? Like EVERYTHING is made of letters? I mean the grass is growing letters, the cool thing about it too is that it doesnt just create letters from nowhere, it creates them from whatever you are looking at, like tons of them, so thats why I think lsd is great, because you arent just seeing things, you are realizing patterns in whats all around you.
But yeah, I had a stronger flashback today, I closed my eyes for a few minutes and opened them and the world was just all acidy for like an hour, even my mind was.
But yeah, I find it quite frustrating to convey my visuals to people because they are so intricate and cool that words like 'puzzle-like' or 'trillions of pin-sized dots moving along a pattern set by my veins and arteries on my arm" just dont cut it.

 

rather interesting
are they english letterS?
or are they symbols in general?

 

I saw these amazing geometric patterns on everything I looked at. Like spiraling interconnected fractal mandalas composed of escher-like figures linked together. They were in the tile, on the wall, and on my skin. I saw the same kind of patterns repeating themselves all throughout nature. In trees and rivers and mountains. And at the same time I felt like 'me'... my past, present and future, were all apart of a much larger pattern… One of greater complexity but similar form to the ones in my mind and in nature. Almost like I could see the patterns of consciousness spiraling through time or something… haha if that makes sense.

 

My dad's basement already has a bunch of bugs crawling around it. I have this thing where I tend to hallucinate bugs, slugs, and other small somewhat "icky" creatures. They don't bother me though, even when I think they're on my face.

My city has a once yearly art fair that lasts a few days. One day I went there on one hit, later that day on three. That was interesting. I had to wear sunglasses or everyone would have seen my eyes wide in astonishment. I'm not just talking pupils, I'm talking surprise. So many visuals I have trouble remembering. It's a crazy environment because oftentimes the streets are literally so packed that you can't even walk at a reasonable speed. There are booths of art packed together and this makes for an exceedingly stimulatory environment. The visual I remember most was a psychedelic kaleidoscope in patterns corresponding to the textures of the sidewalks and road. All over the ground. Tracers of peoples arms swaying at their sides, and people who already looked slightly loony became mad-scientist versions of themselves. Everyone's sharpest features seemed stretched and exaggerated. Oh God! The Art! Paintings ten times as abstract and photography ten times as poetic. Someone had hand-blown glass vases, those were gorgeous, the glass was like colored water. Someone every year brings wax people, who are designed painstakingly to look lifelike. These enthralled me as a child, and now they looked too lifelike.

At some point I had an unnerving necessity for water, which was possibly my acid-filled head telling me I was becoming dehydrated, which actually does happen very often at this particular fair. My friend didn't do so well on two hits I gave him, free of charge (I'm too generous). He had done two hits a couple times previously but even normally in public this kid has a tendency to act really odd, so I should have seen it coming when he followed some other kid who was probably high, accusing him of being on crystal meth.

 

I could never express psychedelic visuals too well, there truly are no words for them. But here is a paragraph from a short story I wrote, about a girl who is in between insanity and love, unable to decide wether she is seeing reality or distorting. I wrote this story some time ago but I feel that it still applies to how I break down existence during a trip on LSD.

...Following this brief alteration in the function of typical mind-self Brooke allowed the not at all unpleasant shift in consciousness to settle in like the absorption of Sun drops into the morning dew. The pattern continued to flicker back and forth upon the screen projected between the protective lens covering her forest green eyes and the external objects composing her bathroom, displaying an intricate matrix of interlocking geometric shapes superimposed against yet another layer of neon film revealed to her mind-self as a grid network of interwoven circles. Her comprehension of gross matter as being a sort of precipitation of the finer, subtle electricity which permeates the universe is due to this forced alteration of mind-self utilizing a basic elemental macro map, the dimensions of which are illusory being that on a microscopic measure rotation reflects the core mechanics, as well as external reactions, of everything known to the six mind senses, from the blossoming of atoms to the dances of the celestial heavenly bodies. Using this esoteric map as the foundation for the formulation of thought, and harmonizing with the beautiful sound, the organic drone, as the guidance for piecing together the fragmentation of her scattered mental imagery, Brooke was able to separate her mind-self from her bodily host.

God bless.

 

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=304310&f=118

Read this, this is my description IN DETAIL of my visuals

 

look up Alex Grey and Luke Brown

 

words will never do them justice. what makes sense to me in a worded analysis will likely not make sense to the reader.
that's the wicked thing about them. they are unique. the divine perfection. the improved remastered sensory perception interacting with the state of visual profanity. the amazing sense of 'what's behind the window?' coming through in visual anticipation. the deepest corners of your mind being projected to your peripheral vision, like a magnifying glass with a mirror on. the fractal animation within everything in the external world.
it's indescribable.