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H. P. Lovecraft and Psychedelics?
    #8004014 - 02/10/08 09:46 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

has anyone notices how psychedelic his works are? especially his Dream Cycle stuff. i started re-reading his books and in an excellent story (Dreams in the Witch-House) i found this:

Gilman's dreams consisted largely in plunges through limitless abysses of inexplicably coloured twilight and baffingly disordered sound; abysses whose material and gravitational properties, and whose relation to his own entity, he could not even begin to explain. He did not walk or climb, fly or swim, crawl or wriggle; yet always experienced a mode of motion partly voluntary and partly involuntary. Of his own condition he could not well judge, for sight of his arms, legs, and torso seemed always cut off by some odd disarrangement of perspective; but he felt that his physical organization and faculties were somehow marvellously transmuted and obliquely projected - though not without a certain grotesque relationship to his normal proportions and properties.

The abysses were by no means vacant, being crowded with indescribably angled masses of alien-hued substance, some of which appeared to be organic while others seemed inorganic. A few of the organic objects tended to awake vague memories in the back of his mind, though he could form no conscious idea of what they mockingly resembled or suggested. In the later dreams he began to distinguish separate categories into which the organic objects appeared to be divided, and which seemed to involve in each case a radically different species of conduct-pattern and basic motivation. Of these categories one seemed to him to include objects slightly less illogical and irrelevant in their motions than the members of the other categories.

All the objects - organic and inorganic alike - were totally beyond description or even comprehension. Gilman sometimes compared the inorganic matter to prisms, labyrinths, clusters of cubes and planes, and Cyclopean buildings; and the organic things struck him variously as groups of bubbles, octopi, centipedes, living Hindoo idols, and intricate arabesques roused into a kind of ophidian animation. Everything he saw was unspeakably menacing and horrible; and whenever one of the organic entities appeared by its motions to be noticing him, he felt a stark, hideous fright which generally jolted him awake. Of how the organic entities moved, he could tell no more than of how he moved himself. In time he observed a further mystery - the tendency of certain entities to appear suddenly out of empty space, or to disappear totally with equal suddenness. The shrieking, roaring confusion of sound which permeated the abysses was past all analysis as to pitch, timbre or rhythm; but seemed to be synchronous with vague visual changes in all the indefinite objects, organic and inorganic alike. Gilman had a constant sense of dread that it might rise to some unbearable degree of intensity during one or another of its obscure, relentlessly inevitable fluctuations.


sounds like a bad DMT/salvia trip.


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Re: H. P. Lovecraft and Psychedelics? [Re: Bridgeburner] * 1
    #8004045 - 02/10/08 10:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn :yesnod:


Ive never tried dmt but have had blasts on salvia. I could see writing a novel based off a bad salvia trip so long as you could remember a little more then i normally do.


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If you wake up at a different time in a different place, can you wake up a different person?

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Re: H. P. Lovecraft and Psychedelics? [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8004346 - 02/10/08 11:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

his work is definitely psychedelic at times.

you ever read from beyond or seen the movie? the movie and book are both awesome. the book's only a few pages long and the movie kind of continues where the book leaves off. it's about a machine called the resonator which makes a sound that stimulates your pineal gland in your brain and allows you to see another dimension. really cool stuff.


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Re: H. P. Lovecraft and Psychedelics? [Re: Overclock22]
    #24963938 - 02/03/18 12:39 PM (5 years, 11 months ago)

I remember the first time I tried LSD one of the things that I thought about was Lovecraft. It suddenly dawned on me that I understood the idea of the Outer gods living "outside of space." Before that, I couldn't really comprehend that idea but on acid, I just understood it completely.


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