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grew old on trip?!

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beefbomb

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About 2.5 months ago I dropped 3 blotter tabs and had a great trip. It was about my 7th time tripping, 2nd time dropping 3 at once. I ingested them sublingually at about 7 at night and tripped well into the early morning hours with my brother/friends. When I arrived home around 5am I was coming off it and still having very mild visual bursts. Had the unfortunate extreme wakefulness symptom and was pacing around my room. I stopped and looked at myself in the mirror and I suddenly became lost in my own eyes and my whole face grew very skinny/pale and my skin sagged under my eyes, grew wrinkles, etc. Has anyone ever encountered something like this? :0
 
Yeah it's just a different perspective of yourself. Many times when i trip and look in the mirror, especially in the latter half, i feel like I see who I really am or who i wish i could feel like all the time. I think the fact that we look in the mirror so often throughout our lives creates a memory image of ourselves as children, and we then are more likely to see the younger attributes in ourselves in the present day. However when we trip, the memory impressions are shifted and possibly lifted away and we view ourselves in a truer sense. Maybe.
 
Crashing said:
Yeah it's just a different perspective of yourself. Many times when i trip and look in the mirror, especially in the latter half, i feel like I see who I really am or who i wish i could feel like all the time. I think the fact that we look in the mirror so often throughout our lives creates a memory image of ourselves as children, and we then are more likely to see the younger attributes in ourselves in the present day. However when we trip, the memory impressions are shifted and possibly lifted away and we view ourselves in a truer sense. Maybe.
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hmm...yes I definitely felt like it was a sort of collage of all my facial features kind of just going in fast motion right before my eyes. I was nonetheless a bit frightened by it, maybe I should have looked at it with a bit more positivity? Like it was a sign somehow? Idk. :P
 
I usually find that LSD warps my face in the mirror, due to it's effect on vision. Some people get uncomfortable seeing their face warped, so I usually advise them to avoid mirrors/bathrooms while on LSD.
 
Clocktower said:
I usually find that LSD warps my face in the mirror, due to it's effect on vision. Some people get uncomfortable seeing their face warped, so I usually advise them to avoid mirrors/bathrooms while on LSD.
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That^. I never have bad trips but looking in the mirror scares the shit out of me on acid, I just avoid it. Seeing other peoples faces warped is ok, seeing your own is just freaky for some reason.
 
It's probably due to the change in perception.
I looked in a mirror on shrooms once when I was coming up, I felt that I looked like a monkey. The facial expression and everything just had a "monkey" feel to it. It couldn't be unseen, so every person I saw that night looked like monkeys. It was quite fun actually.
 
I get this every morning of my life, lol. It always takes a cup of tea and few deep breaths before the years roll back and I can look at my reflection again :)
 
I always avoid looking at myself when tripping because as others have mentioned, it just freaks me out, but I tripped with someone else for the first time last week and his face did morph into something similar to what you described. Tbh by that time I was in a bit of a psychosis and I was focusing on other things rather than him looking older, but now that I think about it it does fit. Must be something fairly common :)
 
I usually avoid looking at myself on psyches. Mushrooms have done me the worst though. Acid has never been too bad. I just don't feel like going there. Maybe a passing glance and a smile to myself.
 
Yeah looking in the mirror also scares me on acid... I was freaking the fuck out once and crying why why? I thought I fucked up my face when high and I thought my hair was receding or some shit from accidentally ripping it out. I then reminded myself that I was tripping and that what I thought happened wasn't real...nor did I actually look like that. This is when I was coming down and ended up laying in bed... trying to force sleep. I did a lot of drops of liquid acid that night /: man oh man... but the rest of the trip was awesome... well before I looked in the mirror.
 
LSD sometimes caused me to perceive the aging changes you described, but generally causes a flowing contortion of my perceived appearance in an arbitrary fashion. 4-substituted tryptamines generally give the perceived self-impression of strength and beauty, without the visual contortions constantly occurring. Nonetheless, I enjoy the mirror on psychedelics because I find both of these psychedelic characteristics to be interesting.
 
Bro, your sense of humor tickles my spot for tripped out wits like a mad pirate with a twirly mustache and a purple top hat dancing at an end of the cosmos pirate rave. Just sent you a friend request as I am timelocked on PM's for another couple hours, and am trying to make a couple friends being that I am new here at b-light. :)


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