Did you see something with your eyes closed on psychedelics recently? Tell researchers about it in an anonymous online science experiment

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I’m part of a group of neuroscientific researchers at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science investigating closed-eye psychedelic experiences.

If you’ve had an experience like this in the past 6 months, especially one where you saw something behind closed eyes, please tell us about it here:

CLOSED-EYES.COM​

The survey is fully anonymous, and at the end you can opt into a prize draw as thanks for your time.

Ask me any questions on this account if you want - my name is Trevor Hewitt, a PhD researcher here.
 
Welcome to BL. Please take a minute to bring your study OP to BL standards.. ethical approval etc.

Thank you in advance and best with your research.

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this survey sucks cause you have to do different enteries that are all anonymous and they don't tie together the experiences of a particular user, unless i'm mistaken. i'm not even gonna bother going through to list all the drug experiences i have cause it's mostly worthless if you aren't having each particular user describe all their experiences with different drugs. i think you'd find a lot more similar groups of people that way.


i have a video of myself on salvia and i would've sworn my eyes were closed, but they were open. i don't think a lot of the users are even gonna know what's going on.... plus the reports about how many ugs of tabs or whatever drug are definitely not gonna be accurate from a lot of people's reports. no one knows what they are getting on the dark web. the tests they sell are inaccurate. local dealers are usually really inconsistent imo too... i dunno. i guess people have some idea of how much they are taking because of the research analogues being quasi legal, and some people do test their drugs, but idk... just seems stupid. that's for something that is college level.

i feel like you should've thought've a way to combine people's trip reports. i think you'd be able to find who the true psychonaughts are that know what they are doing and taking from getting a combined trip report survey... i feel like they might've thought've that, but they just didn't know how to code it to the web or something? idk. like maybe college is just like really pointless and i hate my life for not being able to pass algebra to get through college knowing i could do everything else. i managed to pass a psychology class... lol
 
So i had never heard of hallucinating with your eyes closed unless you were also hallucinating when they were open.

Then days ago i ended up in the ICU (not drug related) and was given a cocktail of drugs all of which i had had in combination before. One i had never had before.

it was this https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-su...ne-intravenous-route/description/drg-20537766

It produced almost the most insane hallucinations i have ever seen, the colors were largely primary and insane topics.. think some of wildest and high end adult cartoons.

Here is the kicker you could only see them with you eyes shut. Literally with your eyes open you basically couldn’t see them and as soon as you closed them you could.

That and i cant even stress how cool, complex, beautiful and intense the hallucinations were. It went on for about 5.5 hours.

@vision_researcher
 
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I'm not taking the survey. but will note that I see blueish/purple blobs that appear and disappear with my eyes closed on or off psychedelics. it's not bothersome. sometimes it gives me something to do at night instead of lying in wake. one blob fades and one appears behind it.
 
vision_researcher said:
I’m part of a group of neuroscientific researchers at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science investigating closed-eye psychedelic experiences.

If you’ve had an experience like this in the past 6 months, especially one where you saw something behind closed eyes, please tell us about it here:

CLOSED-EYES.COM​

The survey is fully anonymous, and at the end you can opt into a prize draw as thanks for your time.

Ask me any questions on this account if you want - my name is Trevor Hewitt, a PhD researcher here.
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“close eyed visualization ” Are the most intense and beautiful ways to see that information. I always have admiration of what I could see without looking.
They are the most intricate and meaningful because you are looking through your third eye.
There is no specific protocol in order to see “ eyes closed visuals” besides being very far away from the 3d reality realm.
I figured you would be getting a shit load of cool stories from a lot of people that know closed eyes visuals are the best and it’s surprising you don’t.
The weirder part is that there are people that don’t believe in close eye visuals apparently? Or think this is a bullshit topic because it’s not… With closed eyes you get an information beam into your head that is instantly accessible and flows smoothly without having to analyze it.
 
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neversickanymore said:
So i had never heard of hallucinating with your eyes closed unless you were also hallucinating when they were open.

Then days ago i ended up in the ICU (not drug related) and was given a cocktail of drugs all of which i had had in combination before. One i had never had before.

it was this https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-su...ne-intravenous-route/description/drg-20537766

It produced almost the most insane hallucinations i have ever seen the colors were largely primary and insane topics.. think some of wildest and high end adult cartoons.

Here is the kicker you could only see them with you eyes shut. Literally with your eyes open you basically couldn’t see them as soon you open them.

That and i can even stress how cool, complex beautiful and intense the hallucinations are. It went on for about 5.5 hours.

@vision_researcher
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I saw wild high end cartoon characters too! They looked kind of digital. And they were incredibly intense and intricate looking. I was also able to see ALOT more. I was in another realm. This was an encounter not just a hallucination.
 
Under the influence of LSD in the mid 1960's ...

I saw many sharp and brightly lit geometric objects that were comprised of colors I had no names for that shifted and moved like the planets circling stars. Stars exploding into freshly created galaxies, ever expanding into larger and larger systems. I was not looking at these visions, I was immersed in their fabric of existence and felt energy pulse both in what I saw and in waves moving through me.

These were not hallucinations but my "senses" opening to perceiving what was always there but usually hidden.
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Under the influence of LSD in the mid 1960's ...

I saw many sharp and brightly lit geometric objects that were comprised of colors I had no names for that shifted and moved like the planets circling stars. Stars exploding into freshly created galaxies, ever expanding into larger and larger systems. I was not looking at these visions, I was immersed in their fabric of existence and felt energy pulse both in what I saw and in waves moving through me.

These were not hallucinations but my "senses" opening to perceiving what was always there but usually hidden.
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Wow. Banging 'trip report. ' <3

I felt that. :ROFLMAO::shroomys:
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Under the influence of LSD in the mid 1960's ...

I saw many sharp and brightly lit geometric objects that were comprised of colors I had no names for that shifted and moved like the planets circling stars. Stars exploding into freshly created galaxies, ever expanding into larger and larger systems. I was not looking at these visions, I was immersed in their fabric of existence and felt energy pulse both in what I saw and in waves moving through me.

These were not hallucinations but my "senses" opening to perceiving what was always there but usually hidden.
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They are ancient!, and also is the realm that they reign. I believe it might be be the 10th dimension it was not hallucinations or a vision it was a place where I temporarily occupied I was viewing the world through my third eye 👁️ the world I entered was a crystalline world within a world 🌍 ruled by these demigods to be technical the creator’s of all consciousness throughout my universe. But this wasn’t space it was above as also below. These were masters of masters of masters living gods that created us with their own power of knowledge and wisdom shared telepathicy from all things at the same time we were kid of made by hands of different gods.✋
 
I can confirm that there are beings; although I cannot say what their true intention is. There is both good and evil in other dimensions and we should not automatically take what is conveyed as being either truth or deception.
 
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