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Anyone else think that acid is somewhat like being a baby?

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THClaire

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Especially when your ego starts to dissolve... then your whole body goes numb and your senses just shoot into overdrive.
"Unlike the adult mind, which restricts itself to a narrow slice of reality, babies can take in a much wider spectrum of sensation - they are, in an important sense, more aware of the world than we are."
Maybe it's just a crazy ass theory, but, there you have it %)
 
a baby with memories of a life already lived?

think its just your mind loosing its learned elements/bias/whatever, dissipating to the bare human conscious and emotions that aren't learned but essential and maybe sometimes forgotten? that's just the death of the ego, i would think.
 
Well, yeah. But during ego death you don't think of anything, just for that time you forget everything you know. That's kind of why I compare it to a baby's mind, they just lay there not knowing how to do anything for themselves. I mean, eventually they come to awareness, but for a while when the brain is developing, they don't really seem to have an ego at all.
But then in that case, I guess I wouldn't compare it to acid, just to the ego death that it induces.
 
yes, I've thought of it like this quite a few times. pure naked awareness without attachment to all the shit we may or may not have been through .
 
I think of it that way too. It's like the LSD does away with all the normal thinking patterns we've conditioned ourselves into over the course of our lives.
 
more like a child, not a baby. to be unbiased and so amazed of how the world works. is a good time
 
the first time i tripped on acid i felt like an unstoppable juggernaut, i was more focused than i had ever been in my life, and made a lot of good positive decisions that impacted my life for the best.


toward the end i felt really vulnerable and began to have bad trips which drove me past the plane of insanity. i felt like a child who understood way too much, but couldn't properly communicate. it was like words just fell out of my mouth and mashed together in a soup by my feet.
 
I've had acid trips where I felt a lot like I was a toddler in terms of how I was thinking and viewing the world. Not a baby, but maybe like a 4-6 year old. I find that DXM reminds me very strongly of childhood, and I find being on DXM similar to some of my memories of being a child in many respects.
 
I agree that DXM makes me feel more like a child. LSD just makes me super analytical, I feel like scientist who has landed on an alien planet.
 
Yes. Very much so. Childlike wonder etc.

paridiso said:
I think of it that way too. It's like the LSD does away with all the normal thinking patterns we've conditioned ourselves into over the course of our lives.
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Yes, and that.
 
Read some Stanislav Grof, psychedelic rebirth therapy. You might find it interesing, OP
 
Bear in mind that the "ego" doesn't actually exist. It's a concept Freud made up 100 years ago - nothing more to it than that. All of Freuds ideas have long since been discredited including the ego.

Psychedelics show you a different way of looking at yourself and the world. It's as simple as that. No need to start reaching for redundant ideas like the ego.
 
the ego is just like a box that has gotten thicker over the years imo. although im quite stoned and drunk though so im probably talking shit. it just popped into my head
 
Lower to medium doses: like a child yeah
higher doses: like a baby - non-responsive and totally immersed.
Although I doubt babies see the world made out of matrix-code like symbols and lego pixels
 
i always thought about it as making me into an animal, like a monkey or something.. but yea i guess the same analogy works with babies or any living creature that has no ego.
 
I've always had acid make me feel like a child, fascinated with otherwise "normal" things that we normally wouldn't even think twice about, and relying a lot more on others' body language and actions rather then communication (though I'm not saying communication isn't important). I think it's a good thing though, often I overlook the simple things in life (eg; walking down the street to work is a normal everyday experience but on acid you actually pay attention to every detail on the way instead of rushing).
I've only dropped a few times but every time we found ourselves fascinated by drawing with markers and shit, just simple things like animals but it felt amazing, exactly like a child would.

A friend who claimed to hate drawing ended up drawing these incredible pictures of faces, with the mouth and eyes on the one side, and nose and face on the back and when you put it up to the light it was a complete picture. another buddy made an insanely abstract joker with extremely simple marker strokes. Sorry, Kind of off topic I guess but I'm just trying to illustrate how acid can enhance your focus in a very simple way, similar to childhood.
I'm drunk.
 
I have a friend who is, or at least used to be, convinced that tripping on acid is like being a cat. I never quite understood his reasoning, however i can see how certain moments of a trip could be like being a primate such as a chimpanzee, but not the majority of the trip. I generally view it as a raw, unfiltered human consciousness. Its a fact that the human brain filters the vast majority of what we sense into what we perceive. in example -

The vast majority of patterns one sees while tripping, such as intricate designs in a field of grass or on a rough painted wall are patterns that already exist - not hallucinations. Normally you just don't perceive them because your brain classifies it as irrelevant or whatever; But while tripping they pop out at you vividly. Another great example is the hollow mask illusion.

I personally believe that these filters are necessary in every day life in order to build and maintain sanity, hence why tripping can be a profound eye opener but too much can screw up your psyche.
 
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