Hi, I'm sure this has been said and realised by many people but there are many who don't realise it. I myself was fairly unclear until recently despite doing a fair amount of lsd in the past.
If you can't be bothered to read just skip down, I've highlighted the realisations.
I like to think of lsd visuals in three kinds, closed eye visuals, moving visuals (colors, blurry lines) and scenes. Anyway its the scenes I want to talk about. For people who don't know what I mean by scenes it's when the objects in your vision start to change/move, this can range from seeing objects differently to an entire fantasy land appearing in front of your eye's.
(interesting side note, I found that even when my vision changes into something totally surreal its always composed of the general objects/colors in my vision, just rearranged beyond recognition a lot of the time)
Anyway as for making these scenes appear its very simple. I originally though I could force it by sort of feeling my body and environment making them still but my body sort of vibrates and rushes, I can do this off of drugs. Anyway now I realise its far more simple:
'DON'T MOVE YOUR EYE'S'
...try staring into space and perceiving the whole room, also zoning out might help, experiment with what works for you just keep your eye's still that's the key
So if you want amazing visuals do this, keep your vision very still, don't look around and just wait a bit for stuff to happen. Also I find looking at a point in space and taking in my entire vision produces better results but try staring at an object as well. I just find it easier to perceive the scene without moving my eyes if I'm not focused on one object, just make sure your looking at different parts of your vision with your mind not your eyes.
Moving your eyes significantly causes the visuals to disappear. I also realised why this occurs
'When you move your eyes your vision changes and you end up looking at a completable new image, there's also the fast moving colors inbetween. When we do this our brains automatically fire up to deal with the increase of sensory information, also maybe to subconsciously check the new image for anything of interest/danger. This momentary increase of brain activity causes your brain to re-evaluate its vision and the lsd visuals disappear. Keep your vision very still though and your brain doesn't pay too much attention to it, time for the lsd to do it's thing
I'm sure most people realise some of this during the trip but its very easy to forget afterwards and very important for new people. It's also very easy to forget to do this during the trip even if you're thinking about it beforehand. Similar to when you forget you're tripping and wonder why you're just wondering around and not really doing anything. Might want to write it down on a piece of paper 'keep your eye's still' and maybe 'you don't need to be doing anything your tripping and it's an activity!'. Haven't done lsd since the trip I figured this out so I haven't tried writing anything down but I'm sure having 'keep your eyes still' in writing will be very useful for the trip, other thing probably more humorous if you happen to read it at the right time rather than trip changing.
Anyway that's my thoughts, let me know if you guys agree, maybe some people's visuals work completable differently but most people I've done it with seem to agree
If you can't be bothered to read just skip down, I've highlighted the realisations.
I like to think of lsd visuals in three kinds, closed eye visuals, moving visuals (colors, blurry lines) and scenes. Anyway its the scenes I want to talk about. For people who don't know what I mean by scenes it's when the objects in your vision start to change/move, this can range from seeing objects differently to an entire fantasy land appearing in front of your eye's.
(interesting side note, I found that even when my vision changes into something totally surreal its always composed of the general objects/colors in my vision, just rearranged beyond recognition a lot of the time)
Anyway as for making these scenes appear its very simple. I originally though I could force it by sort of feeling my body and environment making them still but my body sort of vibrates and rushes, I can do this off of drugs. Anyway now I realise its far more simple:
'DON'T MOVE YOUR EYE'S'
...try staring into space and perceiving the whole room, also zoning out might help, experiment with what works for you just keep your eye's still that's the key
So if you want amazing visuals do this, keep your vision very still, don't look around and just wait a bit for stuff to happen. Also I find looking at a point in space and taking in my entire vision produces better results but try staring at an object as well. I just find it easier to perceive the scene without moving my eyes if I'm not focused on one object, just make sure your looking at different parts of your vision with your mind not your eyes.
Moving your eyes significantly causes the visuals to disappear. I also realised why this occurs
'When you move your eyes your vision changes and you end up looking at a completable new image, there's also the fast moving colors inbetween. When we do this our brains automatically fire up to deal with the increase of sensory information, also maybe to subconsciously check the new image for anything of interest/danger. This momentary increase of brain activity causes your brain to re-evaluate its vision and the lsd visuals disappear. Keep your vision very still though and your brain doesn't pay too much attention to it, time for the lsd to do it's thing
I'm sure most people realise some of this during the trip but its very easy to forget afterwards and very important for new people. It's also very easy to forget to do this during the trip even if you're thinking about it beforehand. Similar to when you forget you're tripping and wonder why you're just wondering around and not really doing anything. Might want to write it down on a piece of paper 'keep your eye's still' and maybe 'you don't need to be doing anything your tripping and it's an activity!'. Haven't done lsd since the trip I figured this out so I haven't tried writing anything down but I'm sure having 'keep your eyes still' in writing will be very useful for the trip, other thing probably more humorous if you happen to read it at the right time rather than trip changing.
Anyway that's my thoughts, let me know if you guys agree, maybe some people's visuals work completable differently but most people I've done it with seem to agree
yeah I did, just came to me as I was just moving eyes quickly from one side to the other trying to think why this stopped visuals. Took a long time to put it into words in my head so I could write it down though
