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Hallucinating visual words and phrases on drugs

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Been ruminating on this lately, and seems most of my most intense visual drug experiences have involved clear closed-eye luminescent 'graffiti' of seemingly random words and phrases, or 8-bit computer style random poetry generators. Even on low doses of things, woodgrain looks like it has writing in it that must be deciphered, and sometimes I see the words I'm speaking as I'm saying them.

Is this common? I do tend to be rather word-based generally.
 
Yea i was tripping hard on shrooms while camping, and the creases in the roof of the tent kept spelling something, but every time they were nearly readable they would become a mess again, then go back to being nearly readable and it kept doing that for the whole time i was tripping.

I'm sure it's pretty common. As for the closed eye visual's, Ive ever only got them on high doses of acid, and most of the time im seeing random words.
 
Cool. I should have asked the inverse question too; does anyone NEVER get this?
 
I more get open-eye visuals of words than closed-eye. Particularly on otherwise untextured surfaces; but often the whole visual world will be built out of words. Often words beginning with 's', for me; no other connection apparent. :D But the dress on the person in the painting on my wall generally acquires indecipherable word-like characteristics.

I guess, if this is very common, it may be to do with automaticity of reading (as demonstrated by e.g. the Stroop effect), and a similar propensity to see words as one apparently has to see faces. :) We see, and need to recognise, a lot of faces and words in our lifetime; it makes sense to be hyper-alert for them. I guess psychedelics can tip that hyper-alertness into ultra-hyperalertness and make you see them vividly when nothing is there.
 
I get the same thing and would describe the visuals exactly the same except that they aren't in english... they look like they're in an alien/"advanced bar code" type language. It definitely feels like it is a meaningful arrangement. kind of futuristic/digital feeling.

I've seen english text appear in dreams on objects, like once I picked a mushroom and written on it in a translucent neat font was "Psilocybe Cubensis" very cool dream.
 
I agree entirely I've had certain words meme out on some trips. just recently on LSD a friend of mine kept seeing "ROCK N' ROLL" in flashing letters all up in his vision in different ways. and he said it returned on a recent mushroom trip as well
 
Last time on L I got CEVs of words comprised of random ass letters (English alphabet). They would always be in a zigzag pattern. They kinda just pissed me off because I was trying to read them, which was hard because they were in that zigzag pattern and liked to move around a lot, then when I managed to figure it out it would be something like EKPELWF.
 
Oddly enough I just started a thread just like this one on another board a few days prior to this one. I posted there about a mushroom experience I had where I was getting into a sort of panic attack and suddenly across the cement wall in front of where I was sitting, this sort of incandescent light filled in the nooks and crannies of the cement block wall to spell the word "breath". It took me by total surprise and has left me in awe ever since. It was exactly the advice I needed too, as I started to take slow, deep breaths the panic ceased and the trip turned around. I actually felt like my lungs were clogged then and went a step further to make a cup of ephedra tea, which radically altered the character of the trip, redirecting it from gloomy panic to one of the most euphoric, jubilant trips of my life.

I've also seen that morphing alien/Mayan/Egyptian looking "words" on several different occasions, which to me seems like a separate phenomena than the type I described above, but still pretty amazing when it happens as well!
 
I get patterns, gradients, animals, and lots of other things, but I don't think I've ever had anything like words or numbers, either as OEVs or CEVs.
 
Yeah, I tend to have letters and numbers as the primary component of my OEVs, along with faces and animals (particularly horses, for some reason unknown). CEVs are a different story -- those are more abstract and geometric.
 
CatfishRivers said:
... this sort of incandescent light filled in the nooks and crannies of the cement block wall to spell the word "breath" ... It was exactly the advice I needed too ...
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If the spirit of the mushroom intended the word as a command, it forgot the "e" at the end of "breathe". ;)
 
Actually it did have an "e" at the end. I just keep misspelling it myself. I've actually got it sketched out in my trip log and yes indeedy there's an "e" at the end. The mushroom spirit spelled it correctly. The human meat bag didn't.
 
I get ideographic "alien" writing over everything on ayahuasca. It's kind of like the end of the first Matrix movie in that I understand the characters to be code for the layout of my physical environment or, alternatively, my transmogrified perceptual interpretation of sensory data.

You people who get intelligible words should exploit your experiences. What your seeing is most likely a projection from you subconscious mind in conscious experience. We don't have many opportunities to communicate with the "shadow" aspects of ourselves while we're lucid. Usually these types of intimate communication are relegated to dreams where we don't don't have our wits about us.
 
psood0nym said:
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You people who get intelligible words should exploit your experiences. What your seeing is most likely a projection from you subconscious mind in conscious experience. We don't have many opportunities to communicate with the "shadow" aspects of ourselves while we're lucid. Usually these types of intimate communication are relegated to dreams where we don't don't have our wits about us.
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I have been trying to replicate the phenomena ever since it first happened to me. So far no luck, but I suspect if I am trying to force it I won't have much success. I don't know what the source of the communication was, only that it the word I read seemed indeed to be a message of advice directly relating to the situation I was in at that moment. It seemed like communication to me. Where it came from, there's no evidence to suggest any source yet in my opinion. It's actually the exact reason I asked this same question on another forum. I wanted to know if others' experience mirror my own, and if so, to try and see what similarities and differences were apparent to try to understand what might be happening. I am definitely interested to see where this thread goes and what other accounts people might have to add...
 
Wow, just checked back here after over a month away, lots of interesting discussion here!

The comparison of text-seeking with face-seeking makes a lot of sense, they're definitely linked phenomena.. but I'd think face-seeking has a biological evolutionary basis, where visual language is a culturally learned skill. Something worth following up.

I recently tried DMT for the first time (and kept my eyes open throughout) - before I'd breathed out, neon purple alien hieroglyphics melted out of the walls... recognisable as language but not readable.

Really wish I could remember what phrase I saw when I last had a clear 'graffiti' flash. The whole situation I was in was emotionally and socially loaded (still don't really know what to make of it) and would love to know what my subconscious was writing about at the time - like a built-in I-Ching! Dictaphone required methinks...

Some of my favourite early lexical hallucinations were the rest of sleep deprivation, MDMA and smoking lots of dope. Eyes closed, with a black background, the ASCII character set suddenly started printing itself backwards, one character at a time; I remember distinctly being aware that I was actually reading them off my eyelids faster than I could think of what should come next. This character-dump then morphed into a 5-line poem of some kind, like a limerick or haiku in a predefined structure. I was able to read the poem, but when I got to the last word, the first word would change, making the whole thing invalid, and I'd start reading it again, and the same thing would happen. So I started skim-reading it very fast and all the words started changing very fast.
 
Yup, I get that too.

Had it once when I was trying to roll a fag, the papers had writing allover them, but a sort of alien language I couldn't decipher.
 
I dont know why.... But apparently popcorn ceilings are the tapestry of the gods, and highlighter is their chosen writing utensil... lol

I always see words that I recognize the shape of the word, but the letters its made out of are not correct, and I will spend hours trying to read this stuff... I always see it on the popcorn ceilings, and it always looks like a standard yellow highlighter lol
 
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