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Do blind people get psychadelic visions.

The morbid like me would get stuck in a loop of rehearsing their own deaths over and over again by playing experiential recordings of other deaths ...
 
I imagine some blind people can see color when they trip but some can't, just like some people without the use of their legs are still very physically capable but some arent. Some have alot less cut off from them or developed better
 
I would say yes. From what I have read, I think its possible that a strong enough dose would cause synesthesia to the point of gaining a new or unused sense. Its obviously far more complicated but that is probably a large part of it. Ive experienced seeing with my eyes closed and getting synaesthetic interference pattern-like distortions of my senses. Some of these paranormal experiences are real, if a little distorted.

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Yes to people who have lost their vision, no to people who have never had it is my guess. Some people are just... different... though.
 
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I had thought about this exact topic about 3 months ago, and asked a blind person I know if they've ever done psychedelics. He told me that one of his friends had and that his friend only tripped on hearing things, nothing visual. I'm not entirely sure if I should believe this guy or not, because it seems psychedelics are too powerful to not have any visual component to it even for a blind person.

I've since tried looking for more blind people who've done psychedelics, and maybe one day start some research on the actual subject.
 
I have a special case, being my girlfriend.

She had developed Ocular Melanoma during grade 10, and after countless radiotherapy sessions and anti-cancer medications, lost vision in her left eye. Needless to say it never spread into her brain so thank mother nature for her still being here.

Though she has mentioned many times her colour perception had changed dramatically after that. She could no longer see RED, and all soft colours were greatly enhanced while warm colours were diluted.

Her and I trip on LSD bi weekly, and a rather interesting development had occured just last week. During all of our LSD trips I had never bothered to ask her about her color perception while on LSD (I honestly do not know why, I just tend to treat her like a normal human being and I overlook that fact far too often,) so I broke the question and surely enough she beautifully got sucked up in her expression of what she can see while on LSD.

At the end of her LSD trip, she noticed she could see shades of red in what appeared to be other colors before.

Just three days ago she came to me in tears, and I thought something was terribly wrong and I asked her what in the world happened. She told me that when she covers her right eye she doesn't see blackness anymore, she now sees white instead. Also when she looks at objects emmitting light, the intensity of that white changes.

FURTHERMORE, she can see red again! After 5 years of losing her left eye she has the ability to see red again..

I was wondering if LSD, through stimulation of her visual cortex, brought it back to life?

Any thoughts on this? I'm just fascinated personally and wondrous as if to therapeutic LSD has answers for eyesight problems.
 
webbykevin said:
I find this all very fascinating, It makes me wonder just how much of the psychadelic experience is based on the visuals, when I think about it, the visual aspect is a huge part of what I experience when tripping and this seems to lead to most of the other reactions I have, for example, on mushrooms or lsd it's the things I see that get me thinking, that get me fascinated, the other body load experiences are actually pretty minimal once you mentally try and remove the visuals from your memory of the experience, increased heartrate, that rushing feeling, and Ok a lot of inner reflecting on acid for sure but the visuals do seem to me to be such a huge part of the experience.

More research needed I'm sure.
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I fully agree. With mushrooms I feel like visuals are a secondary thing. The muscle relaxing and intense thinking that takes place, and deep inner evaluating is what's most prominent for me in my shroom experiences. I mean visuals are awesome, and colorful and distorted but sounds and the thinking is what is most prominent to me.
LSD, well thats another story, as well as the thinking and body load, visuals are pretty up there. I think the feeling of euphoria is pretty up there on the list, but visuals definitely get pretty mind blowing on higher doses. I still remember seeing woodgrainrings morphing into eachother and christmas lights dancing very vividly from one of my first trips..


ahh how i love lucy (:
 
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