Doesn't LSD merely exaggerate your sensory perceptions?

[freedstar]

diphenhydramine causes shit to appear from nothing but I would not recommend it at all as it stems from delirium. Ketamine has also caused vague objects to appear from nowhere but my imagination, like shadows in windows etc

Yup. The only time I was convinced my hallucinations were real. Ran outside because I saw a rhino. Walls were covered with spider webs that floated an inch away from the wall. They would even move when touched. Was not a good time. Big difference in being delirious and being on a psychedelic.

 

[Lysdexic]

I never experienced illusions that I thought were real. What acid mostly did was make me easily amused - getting lost in a wallpaper pattern for an extended period of time and the like. 'Emotional hallucination' was commonplace. Best thing hundreds of trips did for me was teach me that no matter what is happening in my life, it will be different in a little while and it behooves me not to take drastic action without careful consideration.

 

[BlueDelight]

LSD distorts your perceptions, but it doesn't cause any realistic hallucinations (at least I've never heard of it or experienced it). Deliriants like datura do that, and I don't recommend even low doses of drugs like that (it wasn't a pleasant experience).

 

[Cycik]

One night when me and friend went raving on a massive dose of mescaline (stupid idea). Walking was a mission itself, felt like the ground was moving underneath me, felt like I was walking up and down hills. Also everyone sounded like they had an Irish accent and speaking COMPLETE gibberish. Sat in the car and felt like I was moving back and forwards at 100kph. Interesting night to say the least, I had no control over my hallucinations as usual, they would just happen and stay there, didn't require me going into a trance or anything. Was a scene out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

 

[freehugs]

I have flowing patterns of mulitcolored squares, circles, and triangles, as well as many other open eyed visuals. I definitely hallucinate

 

[freedstar]

I have flowing patterns of mulitcolored squares, circles, and triangles, as well as many other open eyed visuals. I definitely hallucinate

I don't think most people would call those true hallucinations. It's when you really don't know if what your seeing is real. Like if you start talking to the wall because you think it's your brother.

Whenever I see those flowing patterns it's always obvious" ahhhh LSD I love you". I just call them visuals.

 

[Shamanic Sight]

Freehugs, even seeing those patterns is merely exaggerated forms of what's actually there. Last time I tripped I saw a gnarled looking triangle that had no sharp corners, it was completely fluid in all sense, and they were EVERYWHERE. Yet, when I looked at where they were positioned, it was in between leaves of trees, or in wood grain that already had some sort of very basic triangular shape. Or when I had a shirt with an eagle on it; the eagle was projected about three feet in front of my shirt (looked like a beam of light was shining through it like an actual projector) and started turning every conceivable colour known to man. Like Aetherius and the OP said earlier, what you see is merely an exaggeration of what's really going on. When you start seeing witches flying on brooms, or desecrated bodies lying around your floor with blood dripping from the ceiling, and not knowing if any of it is -actually- real, then I'd say you're not truly hallucinating.

As for datura, I've always wanted to try a small dose once with some people I knew would look over me and not take me to the ER, lest I was foaming at the mouth or something equally dangerous, haha.