Colourblindness Vs. MDMA?

[Colours??]

Ok, can't seem to post anywhere but here, so here goes.

I was wondering if anyone had ever had any notable effects on colour blindness when taking MDMA?

I ask as I'm quite heavily red-green colour blind, to me, Grass isn't green and red berries hanging on a tree may as well be leaves. Hell, even brown tree bark is about the same colour as grass.

However the last couple of times taking MDMA (once/twice a year), I've noticed that the veil of murky red-green-brown-ness seems to lift, if only for a little while (a couple of hours, up to the peak then down the other side). During the experience I can tell colours apart, because the grass suddenly becomes GREEEEEEN, or Raja-Ram's hat becomes REEEEEEDDDDD!!!

Now, I know MDMA/Extasy will make colours more vibrant, you become fascinated by fluorescent stuff, flashy lights/fire are awesome etc etc, but its as though everything becomes easier to distinguish, not JUST brighter.

Its madness, so frustrating during every-day life when you need that kind of normal sight, however a few hours after the drop its simply robbed from me and I go back to the way things were.

Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

 

[Tommyboy]

I'm going to move this to the correct forum.

Anon --> ED

 

[Bearlove]

wow - I would be really interested if other people shared the same experience. I am very curious about color blindness (so excuse the stupid questions to follow[certainly not meant to be disrespectful]) - you say that when your high you can see 'Green' correctly - how do you know? If you do not know what 'green' is then how do you know what grass 'should' look like? If you have something like yellow paint and mix it with blue, how would you explain the color that it makes?

I have often had my color split when using MDMA and objects seem to have a halo of blue, green, yellow, red (like when wearing old style 3D glasses) I wonder if its the same kind of thing?

 

[Achten]

Search erowid for "lsd and colorblindness", I remember reading a similar experience there.

 

[Colours??]

Bearlove, please bare with me as its about as difficult to explain as it probably is to understand.

The when I look at a colour somewhere in the red-green through to brown spectrum, they all pretty much look the same. If there is a red and a green next to each other, I can probably tell them apart, however I know in my self its because I have a 'reference'. I can say in my head that "the colour on the left looks MORE red than the one on the right, so it's probably red", however this doesn't always work and sometimes I get it wrong.

If the two colours were apart I'd just guess.

BUT. When I've had a dose, I can look at colours and without any kind of hesitation that one colour is red and one is green. Its as if the name of the colour is written directly on it. If i've just dropped and am sitting anywhere near grass, one minute its mush, then minutes later it can be the lushest most vibrant shade of Green you've ever seen.



When I'm not under the influence after having experienced the clarity earlier, I would say that pretty much everything in the red green area (and brown) looks like what I could call 'green' from my experimental travellings. Conversely I can remember rolling out of a tent the next day, getting up, looking about and suddenly saying "Why the fuck is the grass RED?"

You can see some reds, like traffic lights, then then again I know the one at the top is the red one. Green traffic lights sometimes look blue, so i'm not sure if thats me or the new types of lights.

Achten; I'll look that one up, maybe i'm not alone

 

[Bearlove]

^Thank you for the explanation - I really find it fascinating how MDMA can make such a change in your vision / interpretation of what color is. I am trying to decide how to ask you further questions but I'm stumbling over my own interpretations of what is this 'color'.

 

[Colours??]

Bearlove, Please feel free to ask ANY questions, it's almost therapeutic to talk about it!

I'm not sure how best to describe the colours, I can't equate them to anything else, which is normal I suppose.

I've always wondered if everyone interprets them the same.