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KingKnowledge
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Strange Creature Staring Back
#19159680 - 11/19/13 01:29 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hey everyone,
So recently, I've had this crazy illusion happen a few times. I'm not sure if its a flashback, but I feel like this deserves to be in the Psychedelic Experience even though it's not a direct trip. It starts when I stare into the mirror. All of a sudden I snap out of my usual perception; its like I stare so much that my focus changes and I get drawn back out of my usual viewpoint.
Then, it happens.
Out of nowhere, I look at myself like a creature. Almost like I've never seen a human before. I look so strange, so different. It's happened with my face and my body. It's almost like I'm pulled out of the human perspective and allowed to see what we look like to an unknowing observer.
Has this happened to anybody else before? I should note that I'm never tripping when this happens. But I am usually stoned so it may be reminiscent of a trip.

I hope I'm not crazy.
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LuSiD enthusiast
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You're experiencing the troxler effect, your eyes go out of focus, and cancel out useless information, and the rest of it is you thinking to much into it. At least thats my hunch.
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weed exasperated by tripping. I've had similar, illusions,delusions, moments of uncertainty.
those moments feel realer than real.
I once had a breakdown at a friend's place after hitting his new halo perc. Apparently I had this intimation that my life right now is just a psychedelic breakthrough from a previous trip; everything be-came cartoonish and goofy
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KingKnowledge
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LuSiD enthusiast said: You're experiencing the troxler effect, your eyes go out of focus, and cancel out useless information, and the rest of it is you thinking to much into it. At least thats my hunch.
I just did some research on this effect. I don't think its quite right. it's not that i'm ignoring other stimuli, it's that my perception itself is changing. Thanks for the cool theory though!
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Avoid mirrors, that's my suggestion. My face distorts if I stare at it a long time. Same as when you are kids and have staring contest the other persons face will change. Yours sounds like it happens all of a sudden so it's probably different.
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Re: Strange Creature Staring Back [Re: my3rdeye]
#19159865 - 11/19/13 02:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Haha I don't know what your perceptual change is about, but I've wasted way too much time making funny faces in mirrors while I'm baked.
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