Self inducing HPPD?

[Issac Sinclair]

Ever since I was a kid I've been trying to convince people that I can see atoms. That I can see colours in the dark, even PITCH BLACK can't-see-hand-in-front-of-face dark. I even see it when my eyes are tight shut, in the dark. It's as if every single thing I see with my eyes is made of of billions upon billions of tiny little pinpricks of coloured light. No-one ever took me seriously, "oh, you're imagining it..." etc etc.

That pic, above is like a fast moving version of what I see & it's the first time I've seen anything even close to what I've seen my entire life.

I should add that despite hundreds of mdma trips, dozens & dozens of trips on acid, 2c-xx, tryptamines, shrooms my vision has not changed in any obvious way. I do appear to see more "halo's" around things... that may be new but I rarely go a day without weed, so I suspect the halo's are a subtle HPPD brought on by smoking shit daily.

I have to say, I get the same thing too. I didn't think of them as atoms. I thought they were red blood cells when I closed my eyes. This was before drugs (maybe after DXM since I took it as a cough suppressant as a kid).

 

[velena73]

You don't want HPPD. I can understand the novelty for a short time, but as others have said, there's a chance you'll have it for life. It's incredibly distracting and sad in a way, feeling like the lights are constantly flickering and seeing white noise with your eyes open OR closed. Floaters can get bad enough where it's hard to distinguish whether what you're seeing discolourations in whatever you're looking at, or it's just your brain/eyes tricking you into believing it.

I'd really advise against actively trying to make this happen. It's not special anymore when it's something you experience 24 hours a day, every day.

 

[The Smoking Man]

Ever since I was a kid I've been trying to convince people that I can see atoms. That I can see colours in the dark, even PITCH BLACK can't-see-hand-in-front-of-face dark. I even see it when my eyes are tight shut, in the dark. It's as if every single thing I see with my eyes is made of of billions upon billions of tiny little pinpricks of coloured light. No-one ever took me seriously, "oh, you're imagining it..." etc etc.

That pic, above is like a fast moving version of what I see & it's the first time I've seen anything even close to what I've seen my entire life.

I should add that despite hundreds of mdma trips, dozens & dozens of trips on acid, 2c-xx, tryptamines, shrooms my vision has not changed in any obvious way. I do appear to see more "halo's" around things... that may be new but I rarely go a day without weed, so I suspect the halo's are a subtle HPPD brought on by smoking shit daily.

Visual snow. It's not that uncommon to be born with it, particularly if you have bad eyesight. Could also have the Prisoner's cinema, i.e. constant phosphenes (what you "see" when you rub your eyes, sneeze, etc.) like I do. "Halos" sounds like palinopsia.

 

[!!4iV4HF9R34g]

Dude, HPPD seems like fun, but it's a real hassle when it gets to the point that you're experiencing self-reference and drastic alterations of visual perception of lines. Try writing when you can't see the lines of the paper well enough to color inside them.. Shit's whack.