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Seeing "people" when you trip

Medatripper Tates

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The last couple of trips I've had have been very different. The first trip, on LSD, I was on the can and the vision of a woman dancing appeared in front of me for some minutes. It was open eyed and lasted until I wanted the vision to end... or, until I got off the toilet. It was as clear as daylight... how vivid the vision was. It was as if I was staring at an actual person.

The next trip, on a milder dose of ketamine and LSD, I was laying down on my bed with a large rose quartz crystal positioned over my naval chakra. I pulled the covers over my eyes, began meditating, and closed my eyes. The vision of what looked like a native american shaman appeared, very tribal looking. I was on the bed and he was standing up, leaning over me, looking in my eyes very seriously as though he was surprised as to what was happening.. as though he was looking into someone's eyes, but seeing a different person, which was me. A very serious look. His facial features where VERY vivid.. it was like I was experiencing someone else in some other part of the world, or time.

I was looking at him for a few minutes and closed my eyes and focused on the quartz. After a bit I looked back up with eyes open and the man looked like he was getting upset or aggravated and left. He walked out the door. I visualized the entire room.

Has anyone had this type of vision? Is this normal? I really don't know what to think of the experiences. But all I can say is long term psychedelic use is fascinating, in how it seems to evolve in "realness".
 
It's funny, I very rarely, if ever, meet people or other entities when I'm tripping. I've seen some strange things and traveled to strange places, but it's rare that I feel the presence of other people (who aren't there when I'm sober :) ).

I wonder if psychonauts' tendencies to meet people or person-like entities when they're tripping correlates at all with how people-oriented or extroverted they generally are.
 
I wonder if psychonauts' tendencies to meet people or person-like entities when they're tripping correlates at all with how people-oriented or extroverted they generally are.

I've often wondered this myself, been an introvert i can't say i've ever really met any form of entities while tripping, however many of my extroverted friends often talk of meeting different people/spirits/entities while under the influence of psychedelics.

The only time from memory that i could say i have experienced this sensation would of been breaking through on DMT, but even that still felt more like myself then an entity.
 
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I was only aware of another presence once after smoking a large dose of dmt while tripping on mescaline. I'm not sure if it was there before as I hadn't looked over in that general area since about 10 or 15 minutes before smoking the dmt. Honestly though I feel as if it were watching me smoke the dmt but who knows. I've never been a big entity guy and don't really expect to see another one although i'm certainly open to it. Also nice thought on the extro/introvert. Thinking about it I would have to say that IMO extroverts would be seemingly more likely to see entities if for nothing more than the fact that they like and require much more interaction than an introvert does.
 
I would see spirits when I tripped.
Sometimes I felt like too many 'people' were talking to me at one......
My best friend thought I was off my rocker at first- until I started telling him things that actually would then happen :)
We were at a cemetery and I kept telling him, we have to leave, the cops are coming. And he was like 'shut up. they are not' I kept insisting b/c I was being told they were and so finally he gets annoyed with me, we go to the car and as we are getting in the cops pull up behind us.....
After that he listened when I told him a spirit was telling me something :D
 
The only time I've ever seen non-existant beings while tripping was during my first salvia breaktrhough. It was a green, misty entity just inside my right-side peripheral vision. I tried to turn my head to get a better look but it was as if the being wouldnt allow me to as it was too powerful to gaze upon. Weird stuff.

I've never seen any imaginary humans though. But sometimes seeing real people makes me wonder if I actually saw the person or if I imagined the whole thing.

FYI there is a very similar thread to this in PD
 
I've had a similar experience I guess..

I was tripping on LSD and shrooms for the first time ever and was, lets just say "freaking out"
I had ran out of my house and down the street a little and realized what I was doing so I decided to go back when a white car rolled up with tinted windows. seconds before this happened I felt like I was being told "You're in trouble"

Well they rolled up blasting music hauling ass down the street and pulled to a stop right at the side of me and I immediately got scared as fuck thinking a drive by was going to happen and ducked behind a garbage can until they peeled out and left.

My point being, I'm still not sure if I had really saw this car full of people, or if I just hallucinated it.
As far as spirits goes, the only thing I've experienced that was like a spirit was me visualizing what the energy of God looked like. But this was still no entity or spirit guide
 
That is quite an incredible vision I must say. I've got a lot of trips under my belt and I can firmly say that I've never had such clear hallucinations.
The first time I took mushrooms I took an 8th and a half while being a little drunk and Freaked The Fuck out and ran away from my sitters. It was a very apocalyptic thought process and I was followed about 3-4 blocks by a raven at 2am. Still don't know if I fabricated it entirely or if that bird just felt like fucking with me.
But there is one instance, with me taking mushrooms out in the desert, where there Used to be numerous Indian settlements. (can't remember which tribe) And for the first time in my life I saw faces in the rocks on the side of this cliff. Old men and young children were staring me down and I laughed and writhed below them for about an hour. To this day I believe it to be something highly spiritual. Even though all of my friends that were present for that experience insist that it was just me, that experience led me to believe that with hallucinogens it is possible to be on a plane with a spirituality that I've yet to fully grasp.
(I just need to trip the fuck out alone in that area again to do an experiment, if you will.)

Cool stories everyone, nice to wake up and read this today!
 
I see people/spirits all the time when I trip on LSD. My wife used to freak out, but I find it amusing now when we go somewhere and she gets freaked out and asks me if I see/feel anything there.
 
Moving to PD, as this is entirely psychedelic-related :).

Meda: To be perfectly honest, if things are starting to become "real" because you're tripping too much, perhaps it is best to cut down on the tripping and testing if this realness is actually applicable to the sober world? That's what I would have done, if I were you.
 
I once took harmala and mushrooms and travelled with my friends to a stranger’s house. The trip was far stronger than I expected. Everyone was sitting around smoking cannabis and watching television, and I was sandwiched between a few people on a couch. I decided to forget the others and donned my headphones and started listening to the Russian electroacustic composer Edward Artmiev, who has produced the mystical soundtracks to some of Andrei Tarkovsky’s better known films.

I closed my eyes and within moments there was an unexpected silence accompanied by a sense of hovering in total darkness. I heard what sounded like a group of people wearing hard-soled shoes running through a puddle. From above I saw three women in ornately patterned dresses running across the surface of what appeared to be a massive expanse of perfectly undisturbed water. My point of view tracked them from above and behind as they ran. Psychedelic patterns roiled to life from the designs on the dresses and slid down onto long trailers (like some wedding dresses) that wove snake like wakes across the surface of the water. The patterns flowed from the dresses into the wakes, leaving exquisite two dimensional patterns dancing across them. My point of view then fell from above and down through the patterns on the water. As I crossed the surface I saw the two-dimensional patterns extend into three dimensional versions of themselves. I swirled around disoriented in this torrent of symbols for a few seconds feeling that my body had enervated the turbulence. I gradually felt the symbols slow and begin to arrange themselves, first into the outline of my body, then the room I was in, until finally all the people and furniture in the room I was in solidified. I opened my eyes and confirmed I was back. Once again I could hear the music.

Medatripper Tates said:
It was open eyed and lasted until I wanted the vision to end... or, until I got off the toilet. It was as clear as daylight... how vivid the vision was. It was as if I was staring at an actual person.
Sustained open eye hallucinations of people are usually the purview of deliriants and sleep deprivation, not psychedelics. I’ll echo Jamshyd and say give yourself a long break.
 
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I also have weird contact with some spritual/tribal entities, it's weird, I just can't seem to get away from thinking about them. They just always pop up. There are good and bad spirits that I encounter, sometimes the bad really scare the shit out of me. But then good will break me out of it. I can't explain it but don't know what to when I trip now, because I want to have a really high dose trip but am not sure if something bad will happen, as I prefer doing it on my own. Once with a friend I was laying down on my sofa and he was on the one next to me, I was looking straight up to the ceiling and it was kinda like I was being drifted staight up with these weird entities to the left and right of me like surrounding me as if I was in the middle of a coliseum. They all looked at me strangely, and I would drift into the good ones which were kinda blue/green then bad ones were red/black. I couldn't communicate to them, atleast I can't remember. Just them following and looking at me? It's weird though. Can anyone relate?
 
I've also seen faces while tripping but I was on mushrooms and the one looked like a Native American man's face in the pattern of my friend's couch.

I would not count this as an entity, spirit, or other being though.

While tripping I have never ever seen anything that I thought was an actual person or human.

Once when I had smoked and I'd tripped on shrooms a few days before that so the THC experience was very trippy it was dark and I was walking with friends who I'd smoked with in a nearby field and we passed someone's house and I thought I saw a rabbit standing still on their lawn since it was early summer and lots of rabbits are around here then. I shined a light on it since I had one on my keychain and it turned out to be a rock.
 
I experience entities almost only on DMT analogues: N,N-DMT, mushrooms and 4-AcO-DMT mainly.

Most often they are figments of the imagination, just stunning fairytale beings, but I have also experienced a vision on psilohuasca in which I was in a room and someone entered but it was another me. There was no verbal communication at all, only an expression of total misunderstanding especially on 'my' part. Years later I construed this as me meeting my higher self and being completely unable to relate to it at the time.

That trip was much too visionary and serious, at least for my liking at the time.
 
Once at the end of some nasty Ket pills I saw a 19th centuary young girl in a white dress covered in black slime stabbing a screw driver repeatedly into a rotting corpses head.

Fucking shit myself - until I plucked up the courage to go and look and it turned back into a rock with a bush in front of it. Phew!
 
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