evatimophy
Greenlighter
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had a rather novel odd experience on 3-HO-PCP that seemed worth posting about, since it's not something I had previously encountered on any dissociative (having tried quite a few)
I had a nice weekend afternoon of playing chill videogames and watching twitch streams. I had separate 10mg doses of 3-HO-PCP at 09:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00. 10mg is my standard dose, though that many in short succession is on the higher end for me--I am a chronic regular user, but 4h between doses is my more typical minimum. I had also consumed about one 4% ABV beer an hour since 15:00, with a high alcohol tolerance, so medium buzzed or whatever
anyway, as luck would have it, the twitch stream I was watching was playing some early 2000s game where I guess devs hadn't really latched onto the whole "avoid epilepsy trigger lighting" thing yet, and there was some sequence with a series of regular, rapidly flashing hard red lights around 21:00. several minutes into this I noticed a feeling of being somehow transfixed by the lights while also feeling extremely confused and unpleasant, like my brain was shutting off and no longer able to process stimuli in a way that made normal sense. fortunately some more lucid part of my brain kicked in and said "hey, you are experiencing unusual confusion while looking at rapidly flashing red lights, this is classic photosensitive seizure shit, turn it off". I did so, turned off other lighting, and closed my eyes for a bit, and felt markedly better after ~10m.
I did notice an unusual after-effect where I had drastically-reduced night vision: I live in an area with a lot of light pollution, so usually even with all of the lights off in my apartment I can still see my way around from outside lights coming in through the windows. after this everything looked almost pitch-black despite the same levels of ambient outdoor light leaking into my apartment. my normal level of night vision returned after ~30m
AFAIK I have no family history of epilepsy (though we do have some history of bipolar disorder and ADHD), and I myself have previously seen stereotypical "likely to trigger photosensitive seizure" imagery before without issues. I suspect screwing with NMDARs hardcore in combination with GABAergics likely isn't going to do anything good for seizure threshold, but beyond that IDK. very bizarre experience overall.
I had a nice weekend afternoon of playing chill videogames and watching twitch streams. I had separate 10mg doses of 3-HO-PCP at 09:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00. 10mg is my standard dose, though that many in short succession is on the higher end for me--I am a chronic regular user, but 4h between doses is my more typical minimum. I had also consumed about one 4% ABV beer an hour since 15:00, with a high alcohol tolerance, so medium buzzed or whatever
anyway, as luck would have it, the twitch stream I was watching was playing some early 2000s game where I guess devs hadn't really latched onto the whole "avoid epilepsy trigger lighting" thing yet, and there was some sequence with a series of regular, rapidly flashing hard red lights around 21:00. several minutes into this I noticed a feeling of being somehow transfixed by the lights while also feeling extremely confused and unpleasant, like my brain was shutting off and no longer able to process stimuli in a way that made normal sense. fortunately some more lucid part of my brain kicked in and said "hey, you are experiencing unusual confusion while looking at rapidly flashing red lights, this is classic photosensitive seizure shit, turn it off". I did so, turned off other lighting, and closed my eyes for a bit, and felt markedly better after ~10m.
I did notice an unusual after-effect where I had drastically-reduced night vision: I live in an area with a lot of light pollution, so usually even with all of the lights off in my apartment I can still see my way around from outside lights coming in through the windows. after this everything looked almost pitch-black despite the same levels of ambient outdoor light leaking into my apartment. my normal level of night vision returned after ~30m
AFAIK I have no family history of epilepsy (though we do have some history of bipolar disorder and ADHD), and I myself have previously seen stereotypical "likely to trigger photosensitive seizure" imagery before without issues. I suspect screwing with NMDARs hardcore in combination with GABAergics likely isn't going to do anything good for seizure threshold, but beyond that IDK. very bizarre experience overall.
