Hallucinating

[SC00BY]

I just watched 'Human Traffic' Why do some people hallucinate when taking drugs? And why do people talk complete rubbish? is this possible? Also can two people see the same thing when hallucinating?

Just curious cheers

[cherrybomb]

A good few years ago now my husband took me to Scotland for a week in a log cabin in a forest not far from loch ness the first morning when we opened the cabin door the grass was covered in magic mushrooms.

Well we just had to do it (miles from home and  surrounded by strangers) The one thing that has stuck in my mind is walking up a towpath and suddenly feeling like I was dancing at a disco in the Ministry of silly walks and when I looked down at my legs I was marching in the John Cleese long legged stride and I continued to do this all day. My husband still swears to this day that I was walking normally.

That same day we took a trip on loch ness and saw about 10,000 monsters all shapes and sizes but we never saw the same one at the same time.

In fact the whole week was like this!  

[charliebaps]

you can influence other peoples hallucinations if you are on 'the same level' as you become more susceptible to outside influences.

you talk rubbish because your brain is computing a hundred different things at once!  some drugs slow the brain activity down and therefore can make people appear 'mashed'!

[pixi]

cherrybomb i am laffing my head off here.  I have taken mushrooms loads of times and although the effect is always the same, the experience is always completely different if you know what i mean.  I remember one year sat in my room with mates complaining all night that the fire was blazing and i was boiling.  Turned out the next day that there was never a fire going in the first place doh !!!

charlie i totally agree with you I have 'seen' exactly the same things as mates when on hallucinating and oh god the crap i have talked usually for hours and hours at a time

[pixi]

oops meant when hallucinating not when on hallucinating

[andy hughes]

It does depend on the drug, the strength of the drug, and the suceptibility of the taker.

I did acid a few times in my youth - this was back in the days when acid was a sserious proposition, not the mild stuff clubbers take now. Orange Microdot was the one - it could blow you into the middle of the middle of next week for twelve hours.

My hallucinations included seeing Jimi Hendrix riding his white Strat. like a bronco as he played Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. The music was real - it was on the stero, the pictures were all mine. I looked at the speakers, and could 'see' the sound coming out in curly coloured strips - ah happy days!

Research shows that LSD strtips the thin veneer of sensory filtering we subconciously use to avoid an overload of stimulus, and lets it all through. The mind then makes what it will of this input - depending again on the mind of the recipient. 

I went to a pub and tried to order some drinks, but the barman was talking 'gibberish'. Panic - what if I'm talking gibberish to him? I was advised by my 'babysitter' that i was perfectly lucid, and more importtantly, so was the barman!

[pixi]

hi andy, the last time i went into a pub tripping i didnt last 2 minutes.  All the way down the road i was practising saying 'half a lager and a packet of nuts' (dont know why i wanted the nuts lol) anyway everytime i said it, it didnt sound right, and i was getting really worried that they would spot i was off me face.  so i got into the pub and goes 'half a lager and a pack of nuts please'  the barman looked and me and said 'say again love'  i was horrified and just fled the pub much to the amusement of my mates.  and you are right todays acid isnt a patch on the real stuff

[SC00BY]

cheers everyone, now I saw something while hallucinating, I was ok with that until my other half pipes up 'I can see that' so i asked what she saw, and she described it perfectly? It freaked us out a bit!! Was the thing there? how could we have both seen it?

Cheers again

[David H]

There is also Aldous Huxley's theory that LSD removes the blockage of the brain to higher dimensions. This would be the only explanation should people share a hallucination, as it would mean they are able to view into a level that was actually there. Which brings me to the story. Back before 1967 LSD was being tested while it was still legal. One major study in California walked the subjects around a route and the number of separate people who described the same extra colours and items in the same places was a clear indication there's possibly more going on than random interpretations. It's also possible for body language to be so easily read under LSD the person thinks you're psychic, which could also be the case.

I'd say if these powers and realms do exist it's better to try and see them without the help of drugs, as they all have side effects which though clearly not all of you here have suffered (in particular the lsd flashbacks) you can learn to see a lot in a natural way if you want to in a development class.