• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Everyone at the fish bar rolls their eyes when he comes in because you KNOW he’s bringing this story up again.

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    19 days ago

    Its a reasonably good analogy for a 4 dimensional being picking you up out of spacetime as you comprehend it, and just shaking you about the 4D space a bit, and then putting you right back where you were.

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        3 hours ago

        I’ve heard that if you venture far enough into the psychedelic dimensions, you meet the ‘machine elves’, and they laugh at you.

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            I did salvia once and can still vividly remember that my geometric/spatial sense of vision and the sort of texture map that gets painted over it, if you would…

            They completely seperated.

            There was a fixed point in the room I was in that essentially became a black hole.

            The ‘texture’ of what I was looking at, at that point, more or less warped around, like through a blackhole type lense effect, but more chaotic, as if it was rapidly rotating on all 3 axes, and… bubbling, kind of, as if you had a ball of water suspended in zero g, but it was boiling, but there is no ‘up’, there’s only ‘outward’.

            The weirdest part was that this was spatially fixed to a point in the room I was in. I could turn away, everything more or less normal … turn back, goddamn reality warping eye of sauron.

            Move to another position in the room, look at the point from another angle, same nonsense. Turn away, no effect (beyond just the general ‘texture’ effect as if someone had fucked with my own gamma and bloom settings, a bit).

            Looking at the nonsense point actively worsened my balance, fucked with my vestibular system to the point I could lose balance and stumble, fall over.

            Look away, balance comes back.

            One of the strangest goddamned things I’ve ever experienced.

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                Yeah, definitely only did it once.

                No fucking thank you to having anything like that experience again.

                Was with a group, we did it two at a time with two trip sitters… my friends were saying that they got basically funny/enjoyable experiences.

                I remember one saying that basically ‘everything is made of hamburgers’.

                Meanwhile I’m convinced I’ve discovered basicslly an actual hellmouth, a weak point in what I previously understood as the fabric of reality.

                I’ve stared into the void, tried to study it, understand it… and came away changed.

                I think it would be foolish to tempt that experience or phenomenon again.

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      19 days ago

      The fish is wearing the same glasses as the humans, safety first!

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    19 days ago

    The odds of a fish surviving after being taken out of water are not great