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Television while tripping

The idea of watching TV while tripping doesn't appeal to me in the least. TV is hyperstimulating and promoting of short attention spans as it is. I think on LSD or other serotonergic psychedelics, it'd be too much too fast to be enjoyable.

Also, I think it would be depressing to see commercials and lowbrow shows, and to clearly see the way viewers' baser tastes are being pandered to, the way I'm being subliminally suckered into wasting my money and misaligning my values. I'm afraid I wouldn't come away with much faith in humanity, and possibly have a bad trip, if I spent a couple hours of a trip watching any typical commercial TV.

I've spent many a valuable ketamine or DXM trip watching a carefully selected videos, sans commercials or flashy graphics. But I've always thought long and hard about what to watch and what message it sends, which is pretty much the opposite of channel surfing. Dissociatives are very different from serotonergic psychedelics, though.
 
Watching infomercials can be pretty funny. Just to see how hard they try and push shitty products. I laughed my ass off watching one for the steam pocket mop commercials.
 
but wait theres more! its crazy how much shit u end up getting for 19.99
 
yeah u gotta call in the next 10 minutes though...otherwise the deals off the table
 
I watched Kat Williams the Pimp Chronicles on 30mg of 2ce. It was pretty overwhelming
 
one night i was frying pretty good. i sat down and watched TV with my friends. it was kind of unpleasant to sit there and watch the image on the screen morph and split-up like a 3D image

my friend later said that i looked overwhelmed by it
 
yeah i notice on certain drugs, name K in particular, 2d screen starts looking like it is a 3d tv and you start getting depth perception on it.
 
watched where the wild things are on 2c-b. it was fun, but i did not have much of an attention span to keep my eyes/mind on the screen.
 
DwayneHoover said:
Yea, and everything else that is really 3d.... STARTS LOOKIN' 4-D!!!
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Pretty Much lol

bec.x said:
watched where the wild things are on 2c-b. it was fun, but i did not have much of an attention span to keep my eyes/mind on the screen.
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I don't think you missed too much from what I understand it didn't have much plot so you didn't need much attention span for it :P
 
It depends on the show and the substance. On mushrooms or acid, I could watch some cool HD Planet Earth footage or something, but most comedies / story-driven shows and movies wouldn't hold my attention. I've tried watching 'tripply' movies like A Scanner Darkly, but I just can't get into it.

On phens, especially 2C-E, I like to watch just about any of my favorite shows, especially on the come-up (to distract myself from the passage of time and physical discomfort until the peak sets in) and on the way down (to give me something 'easy' to focus my mind on while the trippy aspects fade but I'm still highly stimulated and can't sleep). Favorites include any comedy I enjoy or any series of Star Trek.
 
So wednesday morning, at 7am I took 30mgs of 2c-I. I was debating on taking 2c-E, but decided to go with 2c-I. At 9am, after a little praying to the porcelain god, I popped in Avatar. It was a cloudy day, and I watched it on a 56inch screen, no artificial lights on. About halfway through, I was finding it very hard to concentrate. The colors were just too much, everything seemed mushed together and swirling. Parts of the movie that seemed "emotional" before, were meaningless. The birds that flew south for winter had returned that day (or at least it seemed like it), and they were much more entertaining to watch. I watched them for 20-30mins, then I abandoned the movie, and took the dogs for a nice long walk.

Two things I learned from this. I won't try to start such a movie, when I'm going into the peak. And I will never take 2c-I on an empty stomach. I just have much better results, taking 2c-X, about 2-3 hours after a meal, that's on the lighter side. For the record, I've always found 2c-I to be pretty visual, and at higher doses I find it introspective.
 
I remember one time on 2ce I started watching americas funniest home videos (dont ask why) and I started having all these revelations. I thought it was so crazy how people send in a video say of them like falling off a roof. Everyone laughs and theres this silly music going on but in reality the dude who fell off the roof probably got really hurt and like broke his legs. But we get so much amusement out of other peoples misery and its so normal!! It boggled my mind.
 
I watched a movie that dehanced my trip and kind of made me feel insecure while watching it
 
Movies are insane whilst tripping in my opinion, it feels like the television is a portal to another world where the movie is happening and if you miss anything it can never be repeated because it's not a movie, it's actually a wormhole to another reality!
 
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