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Looking in the mirror on psychs

^ do you mean to say that you are unable to fly???
you may need to see a doctor for that disability. hah
 
I love looking in the mirror when tripping. I would guess for some people they would say not to, but here on bluelight we live to go deeper.

The eyes will suck you in for some crazy amount of time. I remember one time looking into my eyes and dancing (granted, it was crazy goofy trippy dancing) for what seemed like an hour with a huge smile on my face. I was having an incredible trip that night...=D
 
When I was on acid looking in the mirror was very strange. I kept focusing on my pupils which were larger than ever before, I think. I also kept thinking I looked anorexic; I was skinny from mephedrone but it seemed a lot worse than it was.
 
While looking in this one mirror that was angled just enough to not let me see myself in, I saw some plaid curtains melt into almost whatever I thought of. Then the mirror became a canvas for my mind and the rest of the night the mirror was flowing with my thoughts as long as I couldn't see myself.
 
I remember keenly the first time that I did look in the mirror on a highish dose of LSD, I saw, not precisely visually, but in my mind's eye, white energy burn away my face and then raw muscles and sinew and bone. It was impressive to say the least. I dug it, and it made me think about mortality. It's actually a pretty common image apparently from talking to other people. But I can see how it was distressing.

I too heard this one, about not looking in the mirror, and a host of other eccentric superstitions based around taking psychedelics when I was younger ... like putting the acid in your eye. That was a big one. Or about tripping just from touching the blotters. Or about not looking at a clock. Maybe we could have a thread of all the silly stuff we used to believe.
 
^^ Love that idea!

With mirrors though, well there's alot of philosophy/superstition/significance that comes from the mirror. Most people take them for granted in everyday life, though.

I can't look into a mirror when other people are around... this is sober. The topic is interesting.
 
ohhhh I don't like this - it shows my skin imperfections - they just pop out at me...staring into my own eyes can be quite fun though, just not looking at the rest of my face...unless I been good to myself - cutting out sugars etc. :\
 
I love looking at myself in the mirror when I'm tripping. I get that rippling funhouse mirror effect. The most amazing thing I ever saw was when I took 4 blotters of pretty strong LSD and had 125mg of MDMA along with it. It looked like electricity was flowing out of the pores of my skin and forming a 3D grid on my face.
 
Inoxia said:
When I was on acid looking in the mirror was very strange. I kept focusing on my pupils which were larger than ever before, I think. I also kept thinking I looked anorexic; I was skinny from mephedrone but it seemed a lot worse than it was.
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thats odd because thats what i saw on mushrooms
 
Gerald92 said:
thats odd because thats what i saw on mushrooms
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we all have parts of ourselves that do not get enough nourishment. Perhaps that is that parts way of saying hey, don't you keep forgetting about me.
 
Without a doubt - I've not looked at myself on psychs naked for a while, but I KNOW I needto pack on a bit of weight, maybe I DO need to take that extra\care with my face...I was lazy early teens :( paying for it now, still...
 
I've heard alot of people say looking at yourself on a phycedelic makes you start to look like a demon. When I was peaking on 35~mg of 2c-e I did this when I tookk a piss and that happened.. I wasn't really scared by my demon face but it definitely looked demonic.
 
The scariest moment of my life after almost getting hit by a train was staring at myself in a mirror on AMT and asking myself what my issues were. The answer did not come until like 20 minutes later after I had left the bathroom but I am so glad I took that time to look in the mirror.
 
I enjoy looking into the mirror on psyches. I find mushrooms to be a little bit weird than acid, but all in all, I find bathrooms to be extremely interesting places on psychedelics. Some of the craziest OEVs I've seen have taken place in a bathroom (a hallow women made up of translucent geometric patterns walked out of my tub and shattered in front of me).

When I was younger I would find it to be a little less appealing as I do now. I got over the whole weirdness aspect by spending like 10 minutes forcing myself to stare at my face, trying to make it as distorted as possible.
 
CatfishRivers said:
check this out if you've never seen it...great melting face in the mirror video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_WyObcPV_0&feature=related
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Until I saw the part at 0:26, I couldn't understand why looking in a mirror is supposed to be so freakish. But I can definitely see that giving me a shock.

I've looked in the mirror on DXM, but that's a no-visual drug for me, so I just look like myself, extremely fucked up. My eyes are very wide and my face is drawn and stupified. The only effect, per se, is that all the features of my face seem to be disconnected. It's like I don't see a face per se, I see a mouth, a nose, eyes, skin, and it's all just chucked in there together in a random, incoherent smatter. I've done this twice, and both times, I was amazed at how ugly I looked. I realised it was just the trip, but it was still very convincing.

I also looked into one while coming up on a half-tab of LSD. There was a subtle effect like I was falling deeper and deeper into infinity - my reflection was getting ever further away. But I mean it was subtle. Everything on ~50mics is.

On san pedro, I spent about an hour of the trip looking through a book of photographs of people in various expressions of love. I was deeply moved by what I was seeing. All their faces morphed slightly so I could see clearly the narratives of their lives, and the limitless depth of the emotions in their subconscious that they weren't aware were written on their face, and that sober people wouldn't be able to see. To this day, I'm convinced that what I saw was real. But when I looked up into the mirror, my own face did not change at all. I could only conclude that I had no idea, really, who or what I was.

I think this would be an incredible phenomenon to study. Our sense of self and our awareness that the lump of flesh reflected back is us apparently gets played with a lot on psychedelics. It's fascinating and I intend on experimenting with it in future trips.

A friend of mine said that you shouldn't look at mirrors on acid trips, because that makes the trip overly internal and self-obsessed, and that's not the point of LSD.
 
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