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(Nitrous Oxide) - Experienced - Life Changing Problems

That was quite a report captain heroin. I enjoyed reading that :)

Thanks! TMP's original TR made me really inspired to write some of mine down, especially in this thread as the correlated to his experience's.

I really do want to write a TR for my 100mg IV MDA trip, so I will have to get around to writing it down, at least a little bit more in depth. :)
 
you are a good writer. so are you captain heroin. ive made it a goal of mine to thoroughly document those experiences that I had that were this intense. reading these two posts made me feel alot like humans are very similar in the way of having their ego stripped from them and aloway trying to understand it.
 
i didn't know I was in my 50's by now and never stopped doing gastrid...thx
God I'm lucky to have had the internet.

That's easier the best TR I ever read, 2nd being the great DMT TR. Nitrious is all about "synchronicity"...it's the ultimate "stuck in the loop"...and then the loop talks, and then your brain signals clicks to the talk, and a train rides by dispersing the seagulls from the watery clicks. :)

Gascid...............
 
you are a good writer. so are you captain heroin. ive made it a goal of mine to thoroughly document those experiences that I had that were this intense. reading these two posts made me feel alot like humans are very similar in the way of having their ego stripped from them and aloway trying to understand it.

Thank you! I also think TMP is a great writer. I'd be interested to read about your trip reports if you ever post one/some!

Good luck in your writing endeavor!
 
Captain Heroin, you should start submitting trip reports. You could practically cut and paste the mushroom one. I enjoyed reading those. :) I'd particularly like to hear as much detail as possible about the IV MDA trip.
 
Hey Captain Heroin - Life abducted me before I could respond to your great posts and the PM's. I will respond, as I said I would, and will bring some of the material from the PM's into the open. I am still somewhat overloaded - but will do my very best. As I recall I need to confirm your sanity- and want to do so before the clarity of the connections that I made to what you wrote fades.

Back soon...

TMP
 
I'm slightly intrigued by you saying you haven't been able to get real n2o in the last few years. Do you mean that whippets have not been containing n2o? In my experience there is some inconsistancy between brands. I find ISI whippets for example to have a dirty taste and not quite as effective as other brands.
 
TheMerryPrankster - I think you're great! I found this post just last night, slogged through all the comments and I'm still back for more this morning hehe ! I just had to sign up and become a member of BlueLight :D I feel like there’s so much I want to share with you, and that I owe it to you to put some time into this response, and hopefully future ones too. But I just wanted to say here and now that I empathise with you completely. You describe things with such clarity.

I found gascid myself in July 2007 at Glade Festival (in the UK). It just so happened that it was my first time on acid as well. I loved it. I was 20. It saddens me that you felt so lonely on your gascid trips. I was fortunate enough to share my experiences with my boyfriend, completely. We had *identical* trips over and over again that July night. Absolutely gobsmacking Every. Single. Time. We did that first balloon in perfect synchronicity (we always wait for each other), and when we both came to our responses were identical and absolutely hilarious. It was like.. “did you..? what the.. fuckin... whaaa??whztha?? huh wowww fUCKKK!!!” It’s was so weird and funny watching him go through the trip, cos at one point I just wanted to observe him, to see what it looked like. And fuck, the trip is so physical, like his body language, and the clear, cut and dry emotional stages that he was passing through, I could tell exactly where he was at – you know what I mean! Different facial expressions.. And the trip alway ALWAYS ends with ‘damn!’ and punching the air upwards and sideways from right to left with a balled up fist. And it feels like..like.. someone just like your very caring older brother or sister, is mocking you, teasing you, in a very loving, all encompassing kind of way. Saying, “so you’ve finally got it, jesus, it took you long enough didn’t it, can’t believe it took you so long!? Ha!”

Like.. you’re all laughing and messing around and then you go to sit down and your mate’s pulled the chair out from under you and you fall backwards onto the floor n go, “you fuckerrr!!!” (But laugh along wi everyone else, of course).

The gascid trip *is* a whistle stop tour of the universe and everything that’s in it. It’s like a parade, a carnival, all for you. Whooshing through a tunnel towards the bright light (classic, huh). Every single thought, feeling, emotion that’s out there, you feel it, you experience it. I know exactly what you mean, TMP, when you say it’s better than love. I find it really hard to buy into the good god love perfection ideal. The world is full of opposites; it’s hard to imagine one existing without the other. But from my gascid trips I took away with me an overwhelming feeling of compassionate humour. Like.. I dunno.. it almost felt like a letdown in a way. ‘Life’s a Joke’. That’s what I took from it. Do not take yourself too seriously. *Nothing* you do is the be all and end all. We all live forever anyway and we are essentially part and parcel of everyone and everything else. When I say it was a letdown, I say that because I think the experience can have the potential to devalue everything you’ve been striving for in life up until that moment. It’s very humbling to say the least. I suppose it made me realise what is important in life and what is a load of *bollocks*. But then, it almost made me feel, well why bother with anything? Those thoughts confuse me. I think I need to revisit the gascid world again to clarify! –you know I haven’t done gascid since then. Crazy. It’s about time don’t you think?

Please put me on your mailing list, TMP. If you ever want or need some guinea pigs for your ‘experiments’, me n Dan would be well up for it :D We’ve done a lot of experimenting with DMT – how bout you? And as for heroic doses of acid, been there also. I’ve been pretty reckless over the past couple of years, like you I suppose, and damaged myself somewhat (not on noz!). Hmm.. I experienced such terrifying, hellish psychosis last summer, absolutely rock bottom fear. So stupid of me doing 2cbs just a month after quite a serious nervous breakdown :-/ But I’m pretty sure it’s nothing that can’t be repaired. Like you said, I think the only way to fully get over psychological damage caused by ODing / being reckless on psychedelics is to take the bull by the horns, face the fear head on, and revisit it, when you’re ready. Maybe this summer...

Take it easy, and I’m so sorry to hear of your suffering. I wish you all the best in your search for relief.

Christina
 
^DMT and nitrous is an interesting combo as well although I haven't done it as many times as Gascid.
 
i didn't know I was in my 50's by now and never stopped doing gastrid...thx
God I'm lucky to have had the internet.

That's easier the best TR I ever read, 2nd being the great DMT TR. Nitrious is all about "synchronicity"...it's the ultimate "stuck in the loop"...and then the loop talks, and then your brain signals clicks to the talk, and a train rides by dispersing the seagulls from the watery clicks. :)

Gascid...............

Yeah!!

Right On!!

Nicely put!!!

TMP
 
Thanks! TMP's original TR made me really inspired to write some of mine down, especially in this thread as the correlated to his experience's.

I really do want to write a TR for my 100mg IV MDA trip, so I will have to get around to writing it down, at least a little bit more in depth. :)

Hey Captain H - I hope you don'tmind - I'm bringing my response to your last PM out into the open, sp others can share.

Looks like the same peoplethat liked my original Gascid Post are into your writing style, too. That's great - keep 'em coming. I'm going to start a neat and dandy DMT thread soon. DMT is worthy of it's own thread. Here's my reply...

Captain.Heroin said:
Anyways I am rambling, but yeah I am 100% sure there was no mix up. DMT goes for way more than the MDA did ($20 for 200mg) and also it felt like a MD molecule when I too it orally. IV was a whole other world for real! Crazy shit man.

Hey - Of course I believe you and trust your certainty - it's just that I have never ever heard anything like this before - and it sounds like something I would want to try - but perhaps with someone else around -= just so I don't do something too reckless.

If you ever did DMT, you would never have any doubts about what you were doing if you did it again. For one - you have to smoke it (You can IV it too, but it needs to be the Hydrochloride salt, and not the Free Base). I'd actually like to try IVing it (or IM would probably work too) because when you smoke it, it tastes and smells like burning plastic. It's fucking *horrible* - and it's the thing that makes me pull back from the pipe, cause it feels like the shit it burning my lungs (It is, however, completely harmless [... well, asd far as breathing in *any* smoke goes]).

When you smoke a full hit pf DMT, by the time your lungs are full of smoke, you can hear a roar approaching you. About 20 - 30 seconds after you take the hit, you hear a sound that's something like the sound of the Universe being torn in two, and then you are gone.

For the next 5 minutes, what you experience has got pretty much *nothing* in common with the Universe that you normally live in. It's barely possible to describe the DMT experience as there is pretty much nothing in *this* life to compare it against. There's just no frame of reference. You go to 'another universe' that has a completely different set of rules - in every way - to this one. Your Ego is annihilated - you completely and instantly lose all sense of 'self - both mentally and physically. You cannot control or fight it - and trying to will just make the experience more uncomfortable.

I would say that my first *full* DMT experience - the first time I really 'crossed over' was up to that point the most terrifying experience of my life - and when I returned, when the jumble of perceptions started to appear in some ways familiar - when I became aware again of my corporeal existence - remembered that I was a sentient animal life-form - that I had a body.. when I remembered that I was alive and finally, when I remembered that I had taken a drug - I remember thinking that I would never again be afraid of... well... anything!!! - as I had just experienced and survived something more terrifying than anything my normal waking mind could ever conjure up.

When trying to describe the nature of DMT to someone who has no frame of reference, I tend to resort to comparing it to "death" (except that that I have never been consciously aware of being dead before - outside if psychedelically induced near death experiences.). I guess it's more like saying to the person who is considering doing DMT, that you should prepare yourself for the reality that the absoluteness of the DMT experience could be compared to preparing yourself for the absoluteness of dying - but with the fortunate side effect of knowing that you would in fact, come back to life again) .

([ Only on Bluelight could I write in a sentence like "I have never been consciously aware of being dead before " - and be completely serious...)]

SO why would anyone want to do thins thing again???

Well - as Shamen we know why by default - but knowledge and experience are not the only reasons. I have found that approximately one out of three DMT experiences to be as Ecstatic and wonderful as their horrific counterparts.

I can't bring myself to quantify DMT experiences as being 'good' or 'bad'. I find it seldom to be a 'comfortable' experience - I find it quite often to be a 'painful' experience - even the most wondrous DMT insights can be exquisitely uncomfortable.

I would enjoy to share some of the actual experiences. I know I have written up a few of them (but they are still in the original draft format). As I came to know DMT - having repeated it a total of about 50 times - some of these at very low doses, and only about 15 of them being full blown - I came to know the realm - and I find that it is easier to describe my experiences if I start at the beginning, and then use my previous writings as reference points for the newer ones.

I must - in fact - do this - so I will stop writing DMT thoughts in here,as this is really a new topic - deserving of a thread of its own. Captain H - I hope that you don't mind me bringing my response to your PM out into the open forum. I'd rather share the thoughts that try to repeat them in public. I will bring a few more of them, when I respond.

TMP
 
I'm slightly intrigued by you saying you haven't been able to get real n2o in the last few years. Do you mean that whippets have not been containing n2o? In my experience there is some inconsistancy between brands. I find ISI whippets for example to have a dirty taste and not quite as effective as other brands.

I think it's more of a global big business thing. I used ISI for many, many years and they were always good. There were a few times when I noticed quite a difference, but at the time put some of it down to me - figured maybe it was just where my headspace and physiology were at. But about 3 years ago - the ISI ones took a turn for the worse - and they nevercame back up.

This is my theory:

High grade (Medical grade) Nitrous is a lot more expensive than Food Grade Nitrous. That is to say that, the low grade nitrous (don't know what it is exactly - but it's just *not* pure) is fine to use in whippits, and those bnuying the stuff to actually make whipped cream will not really notice a difference - especially if they add a teaspoon of sugar to the cream.

However, - we who inhale it get burned - big time. it's almost not worth doing. And it is without question only about one tenth as profound - and doing larger amounts does not help. My first thought was that they maybe started adding some pure oxygen to the Nitrous - perhaps in response to injuries like my own. Since then, I have found advertisements for pure Nitrous. And I want to test ths out desperately. I weas wrong about the new brand - whle slightly better than the other - it's not the real deal.

But I did find a company in califoria - claiming to sell the real McCoy - it'sobvious from their promo that they know what it s being used for - and promise it to be pure, medical grade Nitrous. I miss Gascid *sooo* much - and I desperately want to do it again [ and for all you well-wishers out there - I promise that I have learned my lesson, and you really don't need to worry about me falling victim again to the very thing that my original post was written as a warning. But thanks for the concern..

I stll have much of the original stuff that I used to construct my space/time-ship - and now I have a lot more in the way of programmable technology. In short, I can not only reproduce what was doing back then - but this version of my 'ship' will be exponentially better than the one I build 15 years ago.

I need to find a way to get myself some of these 'pure'whippits, and to rebuild - or build from scratch - my new vehicle - using the knowledge and wisdom that I have acquired along the way. I am pretty certain at this stage of the game that I can custom design a Gascid experience that can be reasonably reliably reproduced - allowing more than one person to enjoy this experience, and have the subjective response to the technology make what I think of as a 'stable wormhole' - something that I can design and reproduce, allowing others to undergo the same experience (or as close as can be) as my own. If this worked the way I believe that it will, it could open up a medium of communication about gascid that might otherwise be too random to isolate the commonalities of the experiences. I don't know if I was coherent in what I just said.

The general concept would be that I could invite someone to my home, and they would allow me to be their guide on a kind of pilgrimage to a psychedelic realm that is in part of my own design - and experience that which could subsequently be discussed and compared in ways that are considerably more tangible and definitive than the purely chemically induced journey.

If I succeed in this 30 year old mission - I would hope that there may be a pilgrim or two out there interested in experiencing my personal favourite flavour of insanity...

I really *must* find some pure Nitrous - all this talk is getting me way too excited...

:-))

TMP
 
I was fortunate enough to share my experiences with my boyfriend, completely. We had *identical* trips over and over again that July night. Absolutely gobsmacking Every. Single. Time. We did that first balloon in perfect synchronicity (we always wait for each other), and when we both came to our responses were identical and absolutely hilarious. It was like.. “did you..? what the.. fuckin... whaaa??whztha?? huh wowww fUCKKK!!!”

... And it feels like..like.. someone just like your very caring older brother or sister, is mocking you, teasing you, in a very loving, all encompassing kind of way. Saying, “so you’ve finally got it, jesus, it took you long enough didn’t it, can’t believe it took you so long!? Ha!”

The gascid trip *is* a whistle stop tour of the universe and everything that’s in it. It’s like a parade, a carnival, all for you. Whooshing through a tunnel towards the bright light (classic, huh). Every single thought, feeling, emotion that’s out there, you feel it, you experience it. I know exactly what you mean, TMP, when you say it’s better than love.....

Christina

Oh Brilliant! Excellent! Far Out! Right on!!! YYAAAAYYYY!!!

Thanks you so much for sharing thaqt with me - and totally brilliantly put -it's just amazing - and comforting - and rewarding - and all those other words that end with "ing" that just make me feel that it was all worth it - even the screw up - even the pain - even - no especially the Loneliness.

All those things that I didn't have 10, 20, 30 years ago - all those things that I believed in - despite the cost - the lost friendships - the people thinking I was just mad, crazy, fucked up, out to lunch - it is just so wonderful to know that I'm not - and I wasn't - that the things that I believe(d) in - the things that I have sacrificed - well, I sacrificed one marriage over it ( I was given a choice - my beliefs or my wife [and why would I want a wide who made me choose between my spirituality and her...]).

Thank You!

It really didn't take very many words for me to know that you *completely get it - *all* of it. And knowing that it is got (there have been a ghood number in here - yours was just put so succinctly and personally) - well... Not much else to say. Thanks you so much for writing that (and for taking the time to read through it and the wonderful responses that it has generated over the last months).

It's funny really - the very *first* response was the *only* negative one that was ever made. I wasn;t sure if even *one* person was going to make it all the way through - and I esxpected 9 out of 10 of them to be like that first one.

And what I also love is that this thread keeps sparking back to life. It has sat dormant for periods of time, and then just one person comes in with some enthusiasm, and everyone jumps back on board. it's just great.

I think the thing that I particularly liked about what you wrote was the *happiness* of teh Gascid experience. It's the one angle that can get lost in the words - and even the serious nature. It's like we'relooking at the actual genuine answers to life, the universe and everything - it's *not* trivial.

But is is simple. I guess that's the nature of truth. And it's so *positive* - happy - no sharp edges. It's good. My screw up was my own. It was greed. I forgive myself - because I *was* doing it all without a manual - I was a pioneer... I guess the pert that was the problem that led to my over-use and my desperate desire to find 'proof' was because keeping something like this to myself was *sooooooo* hard. I wanted to share this *so* badly - and it all came from a wonderfully selfless place. And I was so misunderstood by some. My enthusiasm was taken as a sign of almost psychosis. it was too good to be true and I was trying to *tell* people how good it was so that they would try it out - and instead they decided to condemn it (without even trying it). Some even thought that I was trying to 'control them'. And no matter what I said they didn;t get it. I *can't* 'control' you dammit. it's not *about* me.

LOL

Enough already.

Thansk candielle - you and your partner would be welcome in my head any time. I'll be reconstructing my space/time ship again this year. Maybe t's a good time to come and visit the Pacific West Coast. I live on a small island. Perfect spot to explore the universe...

The VERY Merry Prankster!!
 
^DMT and nitrous is an interesting combo as well although I haven't done it as many times as Gascid.

Yeah - I did Nitrous on the tail end of DMT a few times - and I *did* like it. But I find DMT so huge as is, that it doesn't *really* need anything else. the NO2 does soften the ending. I found an interesting one is Ketamine on Acid. It's somewhat reminiscent of Gascid - as the sedating effects of the dissociative are kept at bay by the acid - so you are able to function - even physically - on the K in ways that you normally couldn't. I've only done it twice though - I need to explore it a bit more.

I think the doing all this stuff by myself has got a little lonely. But I recently met a gang of young people that are way closer to my age (mentally) so hopefully that changes.

It's pretty funny that at 48 years old, I need to hang out with people that are half my age if I want to be able to be myself. What an odd world we live in these days...

Not much chance I'll ever be in a long term relationship again...

TMP
 
Captain Heroin, you should start submitting trip reports. You could practically cut and paste the mushroom one. I enjoyed reading those. :) I'd particularly like to hear as much detail as possible about the IV MDA trip.

:) I know, I have one thus far. I could have written at least 4 more.

I'll definitely do two that are mentioned here. Thanks for the suggestion, I've been slightly standoff-ish about writing them but now I think I'll do it for sure.

Ya man (CH), you're a good writer. Do that shit...now! :)

lol! Thanks for the compliment, I'll do it soon.
 
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Hey Captain H - I hope you don'tmind - I'm bringing my response to your last PM out into the open, sp others can share.
No problem!

Hey - Of course I believe you and trust your certainty - it's just that I have never ever heard anything like this before - and it sounds like something I would want to try - but perhaps with someone else around -= just so I don't do something too reckless.
I know what you mean. I have heard of people IVing MDA but not members of Bluelight (actually, one of them, but they aren't on too much).

If you ever did DMT, you would never have any doubts about what you were doing if you did it again. For one - you have to smoke it (You can IV it too, but it needs to be the Hydrochloride salt, and not the Free Base). I'd actually like to try IVing it (or IM would probably work too) because when you smoke it, it tastes and smells like burning plastic. It's fucking *horrible* - and it's the thing that makes me pull back from the pipe, cause it feels like the shit it burning my lungs (It is, however, completely harmless [... well, asd far as breathing in *any* smoke goes]).

When you smoke a full hit pf DMT, by the time your lungs are full of smoke, you can hear a roar approaching you. About 20 - 30 seconds after you take the hit, you hear a sound that's something like the sound of the Universe being torn in two, and then you are gone.
Sounds a lot like my MDA exp! Sounds fun! Wish I had some.

For the next 5 minutes, what you experience has got pretty much *nothing* in common with the Universe that you normally live in. It's barely possible to describe the DMT experience as there is pretty much nothing in *this* life to compare it against. There's just no frame of reference. You go to 'another universe' that has a completely different set of rules - in every way - to this one. Your Ego is annihilated - you completely and instantly lose all sense of 'self - both mentally and physically. You cannot control or fight it - and trying to will just make the experience more uncomfortable.

I would say that my first *full* DMT experience - the first time I really 'crossed over' was up to that point the most terrifying experience of my life - and when I returned, when the jumble of perceptions started to appear in some ways familiar - when I became aware again of my corporeal existence - remembered that I was a sentient animal life-form - that I had a body.. when I remembered that I was alive and finally, when I remembered that I had taken a drug - I remember thinking that I would never again be afraid of... well... anything!!! - as I had just experienced and survived something more terrifying than anything my normal waking mind could ever conjure up.

When trying to describe the nature of DMT to someone who has no frame of reference, I tend to resort to comparing it to "death" (except that that I have never been consciously aware of being dead before - outside if psychedelically induced near death experiences.). I guess it's more like saying to the person who is considering doing DMT, that you should prepare yourself for the reality that the absoluteness of the DMT experience could be compared to preparing yourself for the absoluteness of dying - but with the fortunate side effect of knowing that you would in fact, come back to life again) .

([ Only on Bluelight could I write in a sentence like "I have never been consciously aware of being dead before " - and be completely serious...)]

SO why would anyone want to do thins thing again???

Well - as Shamen we know why by default - but knowledge and experience are not the only reasons. I have found that approximately one out of three DMT experiences to be as Ecstatic and wonderful as their horrific counterparts.

I can't bring myself to quantify DMT experiences as being 'good' or 'bad'. I find it seldom to be a 'comfortable' experience - I find it quite often to be a 'painful' experience - even the most wondrous DMT insights can be exquisitely uncomfortable.

I would enjoy to share some of the actual experiences. I know I have written up a few of them (but they are still in the original draft format). As I came to know DMT - having repeated it a total of about 50 times - some of these at very low doses, and only about 15 of them being full blown - I came to know the realm - and I find that it is easier to describe my experiences if I start at the beginning, and then use my previous writings as reference points for the newer ones.

I must - in fact - do this - so I will stop writing DMT thoughts in here,as this is really a new topic - deserving of a thread of its own. Captain H - I hope that you don't mind me bringing my response to your PM out into the open forum. I'd rather share the thoughts that try to repeat them in public. I will bring a few more of them, when I respond.

TMP
No problem man! It was good hearing from you. :)
 
Yeah - I did Nitrous on the tail end of DMT a few times - and I *did* like it. But I find DMT so huge as is, that it doesn't *really* need anything else. the NO2 does soften the ending. I found an interesting one is Ketamine on Acid. It's somewhat reminiscent of Gascid - as the sedating effects of the dissociative are kept at bay by the acid - so you are able to function - even physically - on the K in ways that you normally couldn't. I've only done it twice though - I need to explore it a bit more.

I think the doing all this stuff by myself has got a little lonely. But I recently met a gang of young people that are way closer to my age (mentally) so hopefully that changes.

It's pretty funny that at 48 years old, I need to hang out with people that are half my age if I want to be able to be myself. What an odd world we live in these days...

Not much chance I'll ever be in a long term relationship again...

TMP

Yes, I completely agree with you that DMT doesn't need anything and think nitrous may actually remove some of the special things about DMT. That's probably why I haven't been drawn to the combo since the first few times I tried it. It was definitely enjoyable but I also found it much more difficult to remember the trip.

I have yet to try ketamine on LSD but it is definitely on my list. I'm saving some K for the next time I dose. I also would like to try DMT and Ketamine. I have tried LSD + DMT and 2C-C + DMT which were both fantastic.

Ahh so many enticing combinations!:)

Can you possibly describe your space/time ship in more detail? Sound interesting.
 
I have yet to try ketamine on LSD but it is definitely on my list. I'm saving some K for the next time I dose. I also would like to try DMT and Ketamine. I have tried LSD + DMT and 2C-C + DMT which were both fantastic.

Ahh so many enticing combinations!:)

Can you possibly describe your space/time ship in more detail? Sound interesting.

Hi,

Yeah -K on LSD was good for me - much better than K by itself. However, worth mentioning that both times it was not a huge dose of acid, and I did it later on in the trip (like after 6 hours or so) - I do the Nitrous later in the trip as well, as it's good to have the 'journey' of the acid to be fairly complete, so you're fairly at peace when you go into it. Also if you start too early, the nitrous runs out just when you're really getting into it.

The "ship" is based very much in hypnosis. It's a visually and optically amazingly beautiful, but underneath it s definitely geared towards the induction of a trance - even in a person who does not hypnotize easily. There are - depending on the setup - a number of disks/wheels that I made (about 2 feet diameter) that are all on electric motors and which spin. The patterns on the wheels create the most *amazing* illusions when the acid and nitrous work - they take on a totally different dimension =- like looking into a crystal ball or something. There are two main ones - one in front of you - so you;'re looking directly at the wheel - this takes you very deep into a trance. The other one is on the floor -0 so at a 90 degree angle. These two wheels are the main "motor" and the speed of the spinning wheels determines how fast you travel - and the direction of the spinning (clockwise or anti-clockwise) determines whether you are traveling forward or backward.

The next aspect is stroboscopic lights - and the speed of the flashing strobes makes a huge difference to the experience - much - much more than when you are straight or just on acid - it is a completely dimension warping aspect - and you can control the experience directly by setting the rate at which the lights strobe. like to make programs that are synched with music or other sounds so that the sound and vision all work together.

Next up is the direction that the light sources come from - and which eyes they are shining in - whether they are above or below the 'horizon' - whether they are to the left or right of the middle of your eyes.

It gets very complicate to try and explain - and that is why try to make it a purely subjective experience. You do not need to understand the science behind the optical psychology - but the optical psychology gives you a very powerful and very controllable way of inducing very specific subjective responses.

As the 'designer' of the 'experience' am essentially making a pre-programmed Journey for someone to sit in the center of and be 'taken for the ride'. However, as the designer - when I am on my own, building this shit, it's way more that I am actually 'driving' or 'flying' this' ship.

The part where it gets truly fascinating is that using the lights and wheels in combination with the right psychedelics, you can actually *create* subjective experiences - that's where the 'stable wormhole;' concept comes into it. You can use the lights and wheels to actually induce a common experience in those watching it - it's amazing how just an optical experience can induce actual emotional responses. This is about where I got stuck when the Nitrous ran out a couple of years ago, I was really trying to fine tune the creation of subjective responses based on the lights. I was waiting for the technology to catch up as well - and now it has. The next version of my ship is going to be able to do things I only dreamed of ten years ago.

I have so many ideas that I still want to test out - and I have had a lot of time to refine them since the last incarnation of my psychedelic space. Specifically I never had the ability to synchronize so accurately to sound. I want able to get a rough synch between sound and light - but now I can control it to fractions of q second.

I will surely tell you more when I get a chance to actually build this one.

TMP
 
So your "ship" is actually a physical creation in this world that's in, say, your room somewhere, that you can get inside and turn on to experience a fixed subjective experience?

This whole time I thought you meant you created a "ship" of some sort within the gascid world and I was having a hard time wrapping my head around it. :)

Thansk candielle - you and your partner would be welcome in my head any time. I'll be reconstructing my space/time ship again this year. Maybe t's a good time to come and visit the Pacific West Coast. I live on a small island. Perfect spot to explore the universe...

The VERY Merry Prankster!!

Do you live on Vancouver Island? If so, my wife and I had our honeymoon there in the summer of 2008. Wonderful place. <3 We stayed in the Malahat.
 
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