Inner monologue

[jasperkent]

I swear I saw some new colours while traversing DMT land It's hard to imagine how you could fit more colours into the physical spectrum. Maybe the next step would be stereoscopic colour.. one set of eyes in the physical, another eye on another dimension, and then you can have all the combinations between the two dimensions. That's sort of what DMT colours feel like to me. Reminds me of those red/blue glasses you'd wear as a kid to see the 3D dinosaur pictures.

I can imagine seeing new colors on psychedelics. But of course there'd be no way to describe them.

I've read somewhere that bees (& maybe some other insects) can see ultraviolet. And I think some animals can see infrared-- but I could be mistaken about that. I'll look into it.
(pun intended)

 

[jasperkent]

Yeah, it's certain snakes. And not just pit vipers....

Infrared sensing in snakes - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

More fun facts....

How Insects See the World

The mechanisms behind sight are different for almost every species. The most complex vision in the animal kingdom comes from insects!

blog.walkingmountains.org

PS-- I apologize to the OP about this major derail, but this stuff is fascinating.

 

[foodcrisis]

Well if you think about it, nothing we hear(or see, taste, feel, etc) is actually real. Our brains convert sound waves, light waves, etc into our perception of reality.

What's "real" is outside. Inside is perception, interpretation, conceptualization, etc. It may be accurate and it may not. Either way, it's what we imagine reality to be.

i was thinking about this last night, i think it's sometimes helpful for schizophrenic people to think that dreaming or their voices are just random shit from across the universe that doesn't make sense, maybe they are just tuning into something like a radio of all the evvents that have happened across the universe, cause they could end up thinking that it's really apart of their thought process if not and if they have voices telling them to do messed up stuff, they might think it's what they really are supposed to do or that it's really what they want to do cause it's their voice. with my thought process, it comes off as scattered non sense.

i think there's some reality though.... we got to eat to survive, and if we don't follow that, our reality will probably stop, although there might be some other reality going on that we don't know about, and this reality might not be everything... i prefer not to think that way though..

 

[-=SS=-]

i was thinking about this last night, i think it's sometimes helpful for schizophrenic people to think that dreaming or their voices are just random shit from across the universe that doesn't make sense, maybe they are just tuning into something like a radio of all the evvents that have happened across the universe, cause they could end up thinking that it's really apart of their thought process if not and if they have voices telling them to do messed up stuff, they might think it's what they really are supposed to do or that it's really what they want to do cause it's their voice. with my thought process, it comes off as scattered non sense.

i think there's some reality though.... we got to eat to survive, and if we don't follow that, our reality will probably stop, although there might be some other reality going on that we don't know about, and this reality might not be everything... i prefer not to think that way though..

Obviously schizophrenia is such a loose and undefined umbrella term - I think there's definitely more than one condition or state amongst the demographic - but my take on it is there is a degree of mental-psychic sensitivity that becomes known to these people, but it's the fear response that magnifies the disabling aspect of it. Very much like a psychedelic freak out moment where you spiral into negative thinking, and parallel to that is in the psychedelic state you do get the feeling that you are accessing, or part of, some greater sea of thoughts. Which in both scenarios can reinforce fear, because it's cognitive dissonance against what we're taught about our cultural ontology of who/what we are,

There is a tendency to create a negative feedback loop there as you wrestle with a seemingly real paradox; you perceive thoughts, but also have access to a wider sphere of thought.. so which one is really yours, if at all? It's the attachment/ownership over thought that creates all the issues, whether you're sober and mentally balanced, mentally unbalanced, or tripping on psychedelics. There is also the aspect of entities, which adds another layer of confusion and dissonance because culturally we have dismissed such notions as superstition, when in fact they may have reality and actually it would be more helpful to those afflicted if they were taught how to drive them out instead of medicating themselves into a semi-functional stupor.

It's funny because the psychiatrist is just as fearful as any unbalanced or freaking out psychedelic head, and just as lost as to the actual definition of 'thought' or sanity. Ask them to accurately define either and they will go around in circles.

 

[Juniper Bruhmomentius]

I dont have unless I "need" to have it. Ive found it to be a good self protection in certain times. I was a very very much an overthinker so I dont think Im missing a that much, usually.