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The Golden Ratio is a universal law in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical; which finds its fullest realization, however, in the human form.

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Obviously Marilyn Manson saw blood during his first acid trip. It's Manson.
Things ALWAYS look like insects to me; trees and bushes are usually like mantises or stick bugs (...obviously), hair on my arms/legs looks like six legged spiders etcetera, mostly because of my intense fear of spiders
Clouds always look like these things:

squared, because that's how I view reality, a conscious organism with every fraction, no matter how minute, having its own little chunk of awareness. Everything is faces for me because that's how I think of it when I'm sober, so when I take a chemical that induces visual distortions, that's the filter my understanding puts it through

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UziSuicide said:
who else sees these crazy patterns everywhere, well on psychedelics.

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it stars saddam said:
Why do you feel that it is that certain hallucinations and thought processes are so frequently reported by users of psychedelic drugs, despite vastly different personal histories?  One common example would be the hallucination of blood.  The first time I ever took LSD, I was standing under my deck smoking a cigarette because it was raining outdoors, and suddenly, in what some might call a "peak," I started hallucinating that it was blood that was raining from the sky and that it was forming in pools around my feet.  Blood has been a recurring theme in every one of my psychedelic experiences since, though I no longer find it frightening.  In his autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson describes experiencing this exact same hallucination (raining blood) during his first acid trip, and I had not read the book until after I had tripped several times.  I've also read numerous trip reports on erowid describing the hallucination of blood.

This is just one of many examples, however.  I've heard several different people describe hallucinations of insects, usually spiders, as well as the sensation that insects are crawling all over their body or in their hair.  Also, the feeling that one is participating in a reenactment of the "hero's journey" has been reported by numerous subjects, even in the early days of psychedelic experimentation.

What are your thoughts as to why this phenomenon occurs?

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Tchan909 said:
I feel like much of the visual content of a trip is synthesized after the fact; cognition and perception are overstimulated and extrapolate more details from sensory data than are present. This process seems inextricably tied to the similarly imaginative activity of dreaming, which is also known to draw its themes and motifs from the collective unconscious.

On the other hand, much artwork has been influenced by the more raw, biological phenomena of the trip, such as the appearance of form constants and fractals underlying the more-embellished, more detailed surface of the visuals.

I suppose it's a two-way street; like the mind reaches into its disembodied collection of remembered textures, art, surfaces, details, and mythology in order to fill in the big gaps in sensory input. This is how cognition and senses remain synchronized during a trip in spite of the excessive stimulation of the former. It also provides a big, fat, visible synaesthetic window into the chaotic inner workings of the unconscious mind.

I hope I explained it all right, that's just how I've come to see it.

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Nice philosophy

I like how you have "Meddle" as your little picture. Omg Fearless is such a sick song.