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Lens flare at the beginning of a trip

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When I take a psychedelic, one of the first things I notice is a lens flare appearing in my vision, and it makes things look very sharp. As the trip comes on, the circles around the flare begin to change (and exchange) colours. I didn't find anything about this specific effect, so I was wondering if someone could relate. I've read of similar effects, but they aren't really the same.
 
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No... at the very beginning before the auras appear, your vision gets sharper (happens to everyone right) but when my vision gets sharper I get a lens flare sort of thing. I thought it would be kind of common.
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at the source of light was a buddha-like figure, but generally speaking, those little circles and hexagons are what I'm talking about. Really? No one?
 
Do you mean the sort of glare you get looking at streetlights sometimes or through types of glass? It may be polarized light, IIRC that is generally the reason you see that, the difference in which it refracts or something I don't really know.
In TV shows you sometimes see that cross-shaped beams come out of lights, which is because of polarization filters.

I cannot explain though why you would become sensitive to it when you start tripping but who knows, it may be a re-tuning effect in the transition since you start to interpret sensory signals in a different way so you notice the shift.
 
possibly from your pupils widening letting in more light coupled with the visuals(making it noticeable?)

I don't think I've ever got anything like that
 
What I get at the beginning of my trips looks like a car is passing behind me with headlights.... I see light but not the source of it.
 
i have fairly poor night vision normally, and my long-distance focus is pretty bad too (probably near 20/40 or 20/60 in my right eye) so i might need corrective lenses eventually, but i don't wear any glasses or contacts now or when i trip.

while sober, i LOVE the lensing effects I sometimes get around bright points of light. it is most noticeable during the night when my pupils are dilated, streetlights and other bright points will have various halos around them that will phase in and out as my pupils adjust microsopically. it's quite beautiful how such tiny autonomous movements inside the eye will create such large interference effects that fill the center ~15% of my visual field.

even during the day, if i unfocus my eyes (like you're looking for floaters) and stare with a bruight point somewhere in my central visual field, i can see "mesh gratings" of interference patterns across the bright area that I can only attribute to subtle lensing effects inside my eye. i'm sure each person's eyeball is different, and each retina has a different set of strengths/weaknesses in terms of focus and color sensation.
 
I know what you mean. I get this with acid a lot.
I think some of the hallucinations on LSD have to do with how light bends and refracts differently. The light sometimes gets a bit weird or strange when the comeup is really strong.

I agree it is one of the first things I notice during my trip just like you mentioned and it also can give me an indication of how strong my dose was.

Is it really because your pupils are dialated though? I sometimes get my eyes dialated at the eye doctor but I don't hallucinate. I just cant focus on anything close to my face and my eyes are very sensitive to light. Also, during a weekend spent tripping on acid outdoors, after the first day I noticed my eyes were no longer dialated but I definitly was still tripping with plenty of strong visuals everywhere.
 
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