We frequently discuss the visual aspects of psychedelics & to a lesser degree the audio hallucinations but the other sense hallucinations seem largely overlooked.
Why do people think this is ?
I would guess that this might be to do with our typical reliance on visual information, and to a lesser extent auditory information, to apprehend the world, which is partly because of the precision of these senses (vision, spatially; audition, temporally), and partly because their effective use in rapid perception of stuff at a distance. Thus, we tend to notice visual and auditory things more anyway, and so we notice distortions of them more readily too.
If one gave a two-month-old infant (who has much less precise vision) a psychedelic, perhaps they would report (if they had speech
) more tactile psychedelia.
Then again, maybe it's to do with the relative expression of different serotonin receptor subtypes in different sensory cortices, and how the various available psychedelic chemicals interact with them.
I've experienced intense gustatory enhancement and psychedelia while on 2C-C, comparable to the mosaicization/digitization of visual space, when eating a chocolate. The taste was much brighter than it should have been, and appeared to be coming at me in a series of tiny quanta. I've had similar, though not so intense, overwhelmings of taste with 2C-B.
I've certainly had somatosensory psychedelia on psilocybe mushrooms, and to varying degrees on other psychedelics, often becoming all limbs and face.
Thermoreceptive psychedelia I think I've experienced on both mushrooms and 2C-C, although it's hard to know, without a thermometer to hand, whether that was psychedelia or real temperature changes.
I've also had a sort of proprioceptive psychedelia (not distortion, per se, but enhancement) on 2C-B, during an experience of mystical alignment.
Vibroceptive and motor psychedelia could arguably describe some of my more vibrational experiences (on 2C-C, most notably, but also on DiPT and 2C-E), but then those could equally maybe be explained as mere stimulation, so I can't be too sure.
