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This post is really about high dose experiences on any psychedelic, and how you interpret visual language in that state, such as reading a book or looking at your phone.
How do you perceive language, letters, numbers, symbols that have meaning, while on psychedelics?
LSD: High dose LSD I've never had difficulty reading anything. The little letters on my phone may start twirling around and moving, but they do not change their original phonographic importance or meaning. I've never had difficult thinking or expressing myself in words on LSD. The only problem is having zero short term memory and trying to remember those words. I often experience verbal epiphanies, but can't remember them. Like the TOOL song, I was given the key to the universe, but I forgot my pen. One of the most impressive hallucinations I've ever had on LSD was a cubic "lexicon", it was a rotating cube that represented all language and numbers. Overall, LSD seems to enhance the language center of the brain, I just can't remember the brilliancy afterwards.
Tryptamines: I can't casually express myself in words. They tend to morph letters into nonsense alien speak. Language, particularly sharp language, translates directly into emotion. Language becomes much more visceral, but also becomes much more blurry and unessential. You tend to think in emotions and ideas instead of cooking up any succinct poetic interpretation of the experience. Audio, music or language, has always been extremely amplified for me. I've always found tyrptamines to be much more "disabling", meaning I can't function casually or operate normally on them, and that would include writing an email.
How do you perceive language, letters, numbers, symbols that have meaning, while on psychedelics?
LSD: High dose LSD I've never had difficulty reading anything. The little letters on my phone may start twirling around and moving, but they do not change their original phonographic importance or meaning. I've never had difficult thinking or expressing myself in words on LSD. The only problem is having zero short term memory and trying to remember those words. I often experience verbal epiphanies, but can't remember them. Like the TOOL song, I was given the key to the universe, but I forgot my pen. One of the most impressive hallucinations I've ever had on LSD was a cubic "lexicon", it was a rotating cube that represented all language and numbers. Overall, LSD seems to enhance the language center of the brain, I just can't remember the brilliancy afterwards.
Tryptamines: I can't casually express myself in words. They tend to morph letters into nonsense alien speak. Language, particularly sharp language, translates directly into emotion. Language becomes much more visceral, but also becomes much more blurry and unessential. You tend to think in emotions and ideas instead of cooking up any succinct poetic interpretation of the experience. Audio, music or language, has always been extremely amplified for me. I've always found tyrptamines to be much more "disabling", meaning I can't function casually or operate normally on them, and that would include writing an email.
