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The psychedelic experience in one sentence.

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the left side of brain can shut the fuck up, because the right of side brain is now in charge.
 
Something you cant express nearly enough in words and is truly mind blowing which is really feeling like your reborn or seeing the world through the eyes of a kid!
 
I'd address my single sentence to the throngs of mindless masses who pullulate around religion, reality television, and Reagan:

"Question your fucking reality and everything you think!"
 
I think Socrates put it best: "All I know is I know nothing."

once you trip thats the first realization. I know so very little about this absolutely mind blowingly huge and infinitely complex universe.
 
This topic seems entirely contrary to the point of the psychedelic experience. Why would you want to sum up such an ineffable and immense experience in one sentence?
 
J.Wallace said:
The hardest thing to grasp about the psychedelic experience, I find, is realizing that it isn't just one. Meaning it can't be described in one word, or even a sentence. I don't even think it can be described, at least never in full. It must be experienced.

It's never just one thing. It's everything. It's easy to focus on something and say tripping is like this, or that. But really, it's everything. It's not just one thing, it's all things. It's the sky, it's the trees. It's flow, it's loops, it's cycles. It's anxiety, it's happiness, it's euphoria. It's everything you could possibly experience, and more! I think trying to limit it to one word, or even a sentence is a task that simply can't be done. Perhaps for a few moments in thought we can agree it is one word, but once those moments of thought are over we soon realize it's not just one word, it's all words.
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i like this answer - i think it addresses the op well.

indeed, what's the value in trying to compress something as personal and expansive as a psychedelic experience into one media-friendly soundbite? doesn't that kind of miss the point*

somebody once described a dmt trip as "Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Fire.". that's an amusing attempt to describe an experience in one short sentence but, for me, it doesn't come close to suggesting the quality or quantity of the experience. ymmv, of course.

alasdair

* i recognise that different people have different points.
 
the language of thoughts -- you stop and begin to listen to yourself think, and then you realize your thoughts and your reality are closely linked, so then you wonder does thought create reality, or is reality a product of thought
 
whynaught said:
um what? that sounds epileptic or something fucked! I like all my brain, even on psychedelics!
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i feel all my brain sober. how boring. psychedelics allow me to block out the boring left side (must work hard, be a good consumer, pay my taxes), so i can enjoy my right (creative mind, free flowing creative ideas and thoughts). i don't see how that is epileptic. or fucked
 
whynaught said:
um what? that sounds epileptic or something fucked! I like all my brain, even on psychedelics!
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kracks said:
i feel all my brain sober. how boring. psychedelics allow me to block out the boring left side (must work hard, be a good consumer, pay my taxes), so i can enjoy my right (creative mind, free flowing creative ideas and thoughts). i don't see how that is epileptic. or fucked
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That kind of left/right brain dichotomy has been proven to be false-- people who have had a lobectomy (removal of one half of the brain due to seizures or other reasons) do not suddenly lose capability for creative thought.

Rather I would see it as this: Often your logical processes (working hard) may require a creative insight in order to proceed. Other times, your creative processes (drawing or painting) may require a rigid, logical order so that they can take place in the proper way.

Psychedelics do not turn off the logical/rational part of my brain. In fact that's one of the hints that i'm coming up-- my language skills begin to morph and swirl around until i'm not sure which language i'm speaking!
 
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