Frequent deja vus as a result of Molly and LSD use?

[Espiritus]

Last year was when I decided to lose my drug virginity and since then I've dropped acid about 6 times and molly close to 15 times (I've decided to cut down on molly because that's a lot in a period of just one year) Each time I took good care of myself and tried to do harm reduction to the best of my knowledge. I used the acid more for exploring my mind and introspecting and it's always so intense. I don't like the body load so I don't like doing it very often. I'm noticing that I have frequent mild deja vus now. They happen almost everyday and aren't really intense but undeniably deja vus. It's like my life as it unfolds has already happened and I get these frequent little reminders of it. Trivial events of the day could easily trigger a sensation of them having happened before or somehow I knew they were going to happen. Before last year, I used to get deja vus less frequently but very intensely. Now they're milder but way more often. I'm not sure what's happened to my brain. I don't see any other changes yet. Has anyone else noticed an increase in deja vus? Any thoughts on that?

Thanks

 

[d1nach]

Ya if I sit on my bathroom floor ill start mildly hallucinating what I saw when when I had seizures from fake acid. Or sometimes ill get random intense fear of loosing grip on reality and keep hearinf voices in my head sayING GET THE NICOTINE VIAL OUT OFMY POCKET PUT IT ON MY tongue my face anywhere because whenever I was hallucinating i used to hse nicotine to make it stop. And ill someti mes think of how everything was melting and have to have nicotine tl calm down causw ill start seeing it play like a movie in my head

 

[T. Calderone]

If you're talking about MDMA, you should try and limit your usage to no more than monthly. (longer if possible) Whichever substance you're taking, you need to buy a test kit so you know what it is your taking. Lots of rc chems being passed of as molly and acid.

 

[Keif' Richards]

You might want to look up Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder. It's a condition provoked by the use of various drugs believed to include the classical psychedelics (LSD, Psilocibin, Mescaline) as well as MDMA. I know that I used MDMA quite heavily when I was in High School; about twice a week. I didn't suffer any serious issues from the usage, but I did experience some weird effects from time to time.

For instance, Sleep Paralysis. If you've never experienced it before, it's when you wake up, essentially have all of your senses and cognition, but can't move a muscle. You're just completely frozen for like 10-30 seconds. The first time it happened I rememer trying to scream as loud as I could but I couldn't even open my mouth. It was pretty scary, but after I looked it up, it didn't really bother me so much.

Feelings of deja vu I've also experienced. It's hard to describe the feeling or to put my finger on it, but I would definitely notice differences in my perception for periods of time following heavy MDMA/Psychedelic use. The good thing is that it passed for me after a couple of weeks.

 

[Solipsis]

Deja vu's are not a part of perception though.

The LSD is probably more involved than the MDMA imo and yes it can have a plethora of chronic effects like deja vu's, making different connections, trippers like to talk about synchronicity which I think is one of many illusions about coincidences (or other patterns) and what they mean.

Check this: apophenia.

This tendency is shared by trippers and (paranoid) schizophrenics among others.

I think deja vu may be a neurological phenomenon involving brain regions involved with emotion, long term memory and triggered by something coincidental. It can be artificially triggered in some people. Drugs like LSD can allow brain regions to communicate differently with one another allowing you to for example see sounds (during the trip). But it's quite possible that some of the chronic effects of LSD may also involve various possible types of "inappropriate" communication or timing of communication between brain regions.

 

[Espiritus]

Thanks all for your ideas!