Curious Questions.

[!!4iV4HF9R34g]

Maybe it should be studied with real hallucinations. Datura wreaks havoc on your vision you know..

 

[3rd_I_blind]

This is just a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if true hallucinations are more likely to manifest themselves aurally. Pseudohallucinations - on the other hand - are predominantly visual in nature. The drawback of anticholinergic deliriants is they impair memory though, but if I ever go blind I would not mind being dosed a decent amount of datura (in a severely restricted environment, that is).

 

[!!4iV4HF9R34g]

I get many visual true hallucinations when delirious, although I do get many auditory and tactile hallucinations as well.
A goal might be the permanent enhancement of music, or even distortion of sound.
I've done Dature pretty often, like seven times. I've also done Belladonna. I like deliriants.

 

[Aporia]

Could you permanently alter thought patterns to the extent of experiencing a permanent paradigm shift? (Not HPPD, but a lasting cognitive alteration involving sober hallucinations.)[/QUOTE\]

Yes I believe this HAS happened. William James wrote a book "The Variety of Religious Experiences" and talks about what he calls "conversion experiences" and Stanislav Groff talks about it in his book "LSD Psychotherapy" and other books as well.

 

[limonov]

I knew a blind guy who had taken lsd, I lived next door to him for a while. He hadn't been blind all his life (so it's not strictly answering the OP's question), and he said he was quite excited at the possibility of 'seeing' something when he took it, but he said that all he saw was colours and patterns intermitantly. I'd be interested in how dmt would effect someone who was blind though.

Slightly off topic, but related, I also knew a deaf guy (80% in one ear, 95% in the other) who took a lot of ketamine. He would turn his hearing aids off when he took it, which made it virtually impossible to communicate with him as he (predictably) could not lipread very well while smashed on ket. However he said that he liked ketamine because it was like a weird orchestra playing crazy repetitive mechanical music just for him, so deafness obviously greatly amplifies the aural-hallucinations from ketamine. Should give that guy some DiPT.

 

[!!4iV4HF9R34g]

Thanks Aporia, I'm going to have to read those books now (after I finish my current book, House of Leaves ha).

limonov, that's really interesting. It seems though, from what I've read, that DiPT really just lowers pitch and tone. Sometimes in K-Holes I get pretty nice aural hallucinations, and a few times on Salvia, too. Maybe dissociatives do it? Aargh, I wish I could run experiments like these!